

The flexibility doesn't stop there - you can save your presentations and easily manage sharing settings, ensuring privacy or collaboration with other users on the Splunk platform.Īnd as a presentations builder and manager, Slides for Splunk will let you add your notes below each slide, the same as PowerPoint or Google Slides, and use the presenter mode to keep track of your upcoming slides and view notes on a second screen. With the introduction of Slides for Splunk, users now have the ability to effortlessly create engaging slides from Dashboard Studio and seamlessly group them for reuse across multiple presentations. Thanks to the powerful Splunk UI libraries, this vision became a reality. I strived to create a visually appealing and user-friendly interface, tailored specifically for Splunk's ecosystem. Slides for Splunk is now available on Splunkbase for both Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform. Slides for Splunk: Create Data-ready Presentations! With this solution, staying up-to-date and effortlessly presenting insights from Splunk would become a reality. This innovation would revolutionize the way information is shared, making it incredibly useful and hassle-free. That's when the idea struck me: why not enable the creation of effortless presentations directly from Splunk? Imagine the convenience and utility of sharing data that updates automatically, seamlessly transforming multiple Splunk dashboards into presentation slides. While the process was relatively straightforward, it became a source of frustration due to its repetitive nature. However, before our meetings every Monday, he faced the tedious task of opening multiple dashboards, capturing screenshots, and manually updating his Google Slides presentation with the latest data values. When I was working for the “village” (South EMEA sales engineering team), I saw first-hand my manager discover how easy and fun it is to create visually rich dashboards using Dashboard Studio, which he used to present weekly business data. Splunk as a Slide Presentation Tool … Why Not?

Transforming and presenting data is Splunk's speciality and that's why Splunk announced almost 2 years ago the first release of Dashboard Studio, a new and intuitive dashboard-building experience that makes creating and designing visually advanced dashboards easy, even for less technical users.īeing able to easily create such advanced graphical dashboards motivates Splunk users to share and present them to colleagues and executives. Business dashboards further enhance this process by consolidating relevant data from multiple sources into a centralized display, providing a comprehensive overview of key performance indicators and metrics. This allows decision-makers to grasp information quickly, make informed decisions, and identify actionable insights. Data visualization techniques enable the transformation of complex datasets into intuitive and visually appealing representations, such as charts, graphs, and interactive dashboards.īy presenting data in a visually digestible format, data visualization simplifies the understanding of large datasets, revealing patterns, trends, and relationships that might have otherwise remained hidden. As the volume and complexity of data continue to grow exponentially, it becomes increasingly challenging to derive meaningful insights from raw data alone. The Power of Data Visualization and Business Dashboards to Understand Data and Influence Decisionsĭata visualizations play a crucial role in representing big data and influencing decision-making processes within organizations. In this blog, I will tell you why and how I had the idea to transform Splunk into a slide presentation tool. Splunk is such an open, extensible and multi-use product that the craziest technical addon ideas are feasible.
