“…(1) decision makingthey provide opportunities to support decision-makers at all stages of the decisionmaking process, (2) knowledge managementthey provide up-to-date and aggregated information, as well as information on emerging trends and anomalies, (3) data visualizationthey present extensive data sets in an intuitive and graphical form, (4) strategic managementthey are a useful tool for managerial staff at all levels of management, especially in making strategic decisions, (5) supporting business processes they clearly illustrate the implementation of many management and administrative processes, e.g., documentation circulation, financial flows [12,33,35,37] (Figure 1). [12,32,35,36] As stated before, dashboards are tools that use a very large amount of data. This fact implies the need to automate the process of data acquisition, processing, analysis, and visualization.…”