Reporting in BigPicture: Dashboard Hub Pro vs. built-in BigPicture reports
- Ivan Garcia
- Gorka Puente
Overview
BigPicture's built-in reports offer robust capabilities for project management, providing valuable insights into your project's progress, resource allocation, and timelines. These reports are highly effective for tracking key metrics and visualizing project data within BigPicture.
However, the reporting capabilities can be significantly extended with an integration with Dashboard Hub Pro.
Below, we outline the key differences between using native BigPicture reports and extending your reporting capabilities with Dashboard Hub Pro (Cloud/ soon DC).e This comparison will help you understand how each solution can be utilized to maximize your project management effectiveness.
Feature comparison
Feature |  |
 |  Benefits of creating BigPicture reports using Dashboard Hub Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
Custom Charting | Doesn’t provide custom charts. Provides 5 pre-built gadgets. | Includes the BigPicture Custom Charts gadget, which can be used to create tailored custom metrics. | Customize data visualization according to your organization’s unique requirements. |
Chart types | Column, Pie, and Tree chart types. | 2D Table, Line, Multi-line, Tile, Bar, Grouped Bar, Stacked Bar, Pie, Area, and Stacked area chart types. | Leverage an extra variety of visualization types to unlock deeper insights. |
Portfolio reporting scope | Only one box and task at a time. | Multiple boxes and tasks. | Increase the scope of your reports extending the data you can report on. |
Display data from boxes | Limited to pre-built reports. | Any custom chart. | Gain full visibility into box data with custom metrics. |
Display data from tasks | Using a Task report. | Any custom chart. | Gain full visibility into task data with custom metrics. |
Secure external reporting |
Requires giving stakeholders access to your instance, compromising other data. | Share reports with external stakeholders with password-protected links. | Improve the security of your reporting process by granting view-only permission solely over the data you want to share. |
Share reports from the Jira Service Management Customer Portal |
Not supported. |
Share dashboards with stakeholders directly from the JSM Portal. | Provide transparency to stakeholders by allowing them to access the data relevant to them – at the moment most convenient for them. |
Gadgets and metrics | Better combined! Dashboard Hub provides BigPicture custom charts and nearly 100 powerful gadgets. Combine BigPicture and Dashboard Hub gadgets in the same dashboard for greater insights. Both apps offer gadgets for native Jira dashboards.  | Enhance visualization of BigPicture data with Dashboard Hub's custom charts and powerful gadgets. Combine both in a single dashboard for comprehensive insights. | |
Universal Data Sourcing | Only in BigPicture Enterprise, and must be Cloud to Cloud | Displays data from different/multiple instances and Cloud/DC in the same dashboard | Get a bird’s eye view on the status of the entire portfolio of projects, regardless of the instance and hosting. |
Time in Status | Not supported. | Track Time in Status per assignee, issue, date, or status. | Add Time in Status metrics to your dashboards to identify bottlenecks and improve resource allocation. |
Product integrations | Better combined! Dashboard Hub Pro seamlessly integrates with 15+ products, including the Atlassian suite of tools and popular third-party apps – such as Comala Document Management.
| Enhance cross-platform visibility and reporting by integrating with over 15 products, including the Atlassian suite and popular third-party apps. | |
Enterprise features | Enterprise-ready app. | Enterprise-ready app. Learn more about Enterprise features. | Ensures robust security, scalability, and compliance, meeting the critical needs of enterprise users. |
Dark Theme |  |  | Customize the way you work. If you’re using the dark theme in BigPicture, you can stay dark in Dashboard Hub Pro. |
Hosting availability | Cloud and Data Center. | Cloud and Data Center. | – |
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