Analyzing idea metrics using Idea Manager dashboard

Review, analyze, and manage your ideas effectively by using the Idea Dashboard manager.

The Idea Manager dashboard provides summary of idea metrics and trends such as ideas in different states, age of ideas, categories, and ideas converted to different work entities.

Note: Starting with version 2.0.0, the Idea Manager dashboard is available in the Next experience UI Framework which can be accessed from Analytics Idea Manager. The Ideas pane in Analysis tab is not supported in the Next experience.

Idea Manager dashboard in Next experience UI

The Idea Manager dashboard provides comprehensive reports to the idea manager and users with read-only roles for ppm (sn_ppm_read). The dashboard uses Performance Analytics to provide a trend of historical data as well as regular reports. It provides you an overview of ideas, number of ideas converted into work entities, and trends based on categories, idea submitters, and votes. It helps you to review and analyze ideas and enables you to take required actions for managing your ideas effectively.

End user and roles

Use case

The dashboard displays ideas related to Project Portfolio Management.

Only ideas associated with categories are displayed in the dashboard. Ideas marked for deletion are not displayed. By default, the dashboard displays one-year data. Use the interactive date filter to view monthly, quarterly, or yearly data.

You can drill down within an idea indicator data for further analysis by navigating to Idea Portal from the dashboard. For example, to view individual records of Open ideas in the Idea Portal, click the Open ideas indicator value to open the Analytics Hub. In the Analytics Hub, click Show Records to view the list of open ideas, open an idea in the form view, and then click the Idea Portal related link to view the idea record in the Idea Portal.

Indicators

The Summary and Analysis tabs in the dashboard contain the following indicators. The data for ideas is collected from the [idea] table.

• Open Ideas

  Count of the ideas that are in Submitted, Need more information, or Under Review state for the current month.

• Average Age of Open Ideas

  The average age of ideas that are in Submitted, Need more information, or Under Review state since their creation, in days, as calculated by the formula [[PPM:Total Age of Open Ideas]]/[[PPM:Open Ideas]]/24.

• Ideas Converted

  Count of ideas converted into different work entities such as demand, project, story, or epic based on other plugins.

• % of Ideas Converted

  The percentage of ideas converted into different work entities such as demand, project, story, or epic based on other plugins, as calculated by the formula [[PPM:Ideas Converted]/[PPM:Active Ideas]] *100.

• Ideas

  Count of ideas that are in different states. You can view the count of ideas, in different states, created in week, month, quarter, and year.

• Active Ideas

  Count of ideas in Submitted, Need more information, Under review, in backlog, planned and in development state. This indicator is not displayed in dashboard but is used in formula.

• Total Age of Open Ideas

  Total number of days an idea is in state Submitted, Need more information, and Under review before conversion to a work entity. This indicator is not displayed in dashboard but is used in formula.

Breakdowns

• PPM - Idea Category
• PPM - Idea State

Data visualizations

The dashboard includes the following visualizations:

|Ideas converted|Pie chart

|Top 10 ideas by votes|Horizontal bar chart

|Top 10 idea creators|Horizontal bar chart

|Ideas trended by categories|Line chart

|Top 10 categories by ideas|Horizontal bar chart

Parent Topic:Innovation Management