Introduction¶
Welcome¶
Next-gen Dashboards leverage dashboard and visualization technology for a seamless integration with Insights Hub Monitor applications.
Anyone can use Next-gen Dashboards to create beautiful, informative dashboards. No programming knowledge needed.
Gain insights into your data by visualizing it in the way that makes sense to you.
Note
Next-gen Dashboards are not available for Private Cloud.
Capability Packages¶
Next-gen Dashboards are available in all capability packages, however each package varies in the visualizations and plugins included.
Basic capability packages for Next-gen Dashboards include the following visualizations and plugins:
- Clock
- Pie Chart
- Table
- Gauge
- Text
- Dashboard List
- Graph
Premium / Standard capability packages for Next-gen Dashboards include the vizualizations and plugins in the Basic package, plus:
Advanced Visualizations
- Bar Gauge
- Heatmap
- Discreet Panel
- Singlestat
New Third-Party Visualizations
- ImageIt
- Breadcrumb
- Cal-Heatmap
- Statusmap
- Traffic Light
Dashboard Designer Add On capability packages include visualization panels from the Premium / Standard package, plus:
- SVG Maker Panel - allows you to create sophisticated visualizations using JavaScript.
- An icon on the Insights Hub Launchpad for direct access to Dashboard Designer Add On.
Access the documenation for Dasboard Designer Add On by following this link.
Info
For guage, bar guage, and Singlestat visualizations: there is an issue with color selection: you must double-click the color in the dialog box because a single click results in the box closing without saving your color selection.
Security Information¶
Siemens provides products and solutions with industrial security functions that support the secure operation of plants, systems, machines and networks. To protect against cyber threats, Siemens's products and solutions implement and continuously maintain a holistic and state-of-the-art industrial security concept.
Customers are responsible for preventing unauthorized access to their plants, systems, machines and networks. Such systems, machines and components should only be connected to an enterprise network or the internet if and to the extent such a connection is necessary and only when appropriate security measures (e.g. firewalls and/or network segmentation) are in place.
For additional information on industrial security measures that may be implemented, please visit the Industrial Security page on the Siemens website.
General Data Protection Regulation¶
Siemens observes the principles of data protection, in particular the principle of data minimization (privacy by design). Next-gen Dashboards processes/stores the following personal data: User email address, user role, dashboard templates, and dashboard usage data. The above data is required for logging on, billing, and internal user administration. The storage of data is reasonable and limited to what is necessary, since it is essential to identify authorized operators.
Data cannot be stored anonymously or pseudonymized because of the essential need to identify authorized operators.
Next-gen Dashboards does not offer automatic deletion of data. Data delettion can be done manually. Please contact customer support concerning deleting data.
Plugins¶
3rd party visualization panel cannot be introduced to Next-gen Dashboards by users. More plugins are coming in future releases. Please see Visualization and Plugins for more information.
User Roles¶
Admin users can define roles, access, editing, and viewing permissions through the Settings app on the Launchpad for individuals, groups, and teams within their organization.
Here is a brief description of Next-gen Dashboards user roles:
- Admin: this role gives full access to all functionalities.
- Creator: users with this role can create and edit dashboards.
- Viewer: this role allows a user to view dashboards.
Usage Quotas¶
Next-gen Dashboards subscriptions include a quota on the number of dashboards created. Please see our Technical Limitations.