Sailthru Business Intelligence
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Enhance your Sailthru Analytics with Sailthru Business Intelligence
For a video tour of Sailthru Business Intelligence, see the Business Intelligence Hub. Sailthru Business Intelligence is an add-on advanced reporting tool. If you’d like this added to your account, reach out to your CSM.
Retention Analytics to Business Intelligence Migration
With the migration from Sailthru Retention Analytics to Sailthru Business Intelligence, some naming conventions have changed.
Retention Analytics | Business Intelligence |
Dashboard | Workbook |
A tab within a dashboard | Dashboard |
Single chart or report | Worksheet |
Folder | Project |
From Sailthru to Business Intelligence
Sailthru Business Intelligence is a Single Sign-On application. Navigate to Sailthru Business Intelligence directly from the Sailthru application with additional no log-in needed.
To navigate to your Business Intelligence application:
- Select the Analytics menu in the Sailthru application.
- Select Dashboards.
- From the flyout menu, select Business Intelligence. This takes you to the Home screen.
Locate a Dashboard
Your Home screen shows your recently viewed items. These are the individual dashboards you’ve viewed.
Access your Favorite reports, a full list of your Recent views, and any Collections of reports from the sidebar menu.
The Explore screen shows your available reports as granularly as you would like to see them, from your top-level projects to a list of individual views.
Top-level projects combine multiple dashboards into one folder.
Business Intelligence Dashboards
- From the Home tab, select a recently viewed dashboard to open it.
- From the Explore view, select an available Project. Once a project loads, select a dashboard. For the following examples, we’ll look at the Executive Dashboard available in the Standard Dashboards project.
Download
Download a specific view or different sheets from the dashboard or workbook or the underlying data in one of the following formats: image, data, crosstab, PDF, or PowerPoint.
- Select the Download
button .
- From the list, select your preferred download format.
- In the Download modal, set any download parameters, including which view or sheets you wish to download.
- Select Download to trigger the file download.
Watch Menu
Subscribe to specific views, track metrics from a view, or create an alert from the Watch menu.
Subscribe to Views
Subscribe to specific views and never miss an update.
- From the Watch menu
, select Subscriptions.
- In the Subscribe modal, select the view sent, the sending format, a subject and message for the email, and a schedule.
- Select Subscribe to save your subscription.
Alerts
Create an alert when data crosses a specific threshold.
- From the Watch menu, select Alerts to open the Alerts panel.
- Select the numeric axis of a chart and then select Create from the panel.
- In the Create Alert modal, set a Condition and Threshold for the alert.
- If you wish, edit the Subject of the alert and set a cadence.
- Your email address should be added automatically. Add any other email addresses so the alert can be sent to them as well.
- Set the visibility of your alert. If you make it visible, then anyone with access to the view can add themselves to it.
- Select Create Alert to complete the alert.
Customize Views
Each report allows a certain amount of data manipulation. Any changes you make won’t affect the underlying data in your report, it just changes the visualization for the time you’re viewing it.
Filters
Each dashboard allows data filtering, depending on how the data is presented, so you can see just the data you wish to see.
For example, these are the filters available in the Executive Dashboard.
Select filters to reflect the data you wish to see.
Dashboards that include charts allow for other filtering options, including data highlighting.
Select one of the charted values from the list, then select Highlight Selected Items when it appears.
The chart highlights only the selected value:
Save a Custom Dashboard
To create and save a custom dashboard:
- Open the dashboard you wish to work within.
- Apply any filters, change the data sorting, select specific data markers, etc.
- Select View: Original
in the toolbar to open the Custom Views modal.
- Give your view a name and make it your default view or make it visible to others if you wish. A name is the only required option to save a custom view.
- Select Save to save your view.