What a COE - Reporting and Data Visualization should do?

List of activities:

It is a very broad topic and it all depends upon where your COE sits within the organization. However following are some of the top activities that a Reporting and Data Visualization COE must do.

• Tool Features comparison; not just limited to the tool that is being used. Should include all the tools that are under evaluation process as well as leading tools as per Gartner’s magic quadrant. The idea is to come up with a tool’s recommendation engine.
• Tool Evaluation
• Creation of Report / Dashboard development standards – Unify as a Organization Standards
• Design recommendations
• Identification of reusable components and recommendation for implementation
• Build the Templates
• Build the guideline
• Build the approach for – development and testing
• Identify and recommend Best Practices
• Innovations and Innovative ideas
• Proof of Concepts
• Study the Industry trends and keep up to date with the latest and greatest of the Reporting and Visualization world
• Conduct Knowledge sharing sessions with the wider audience
• Present the progress report to the management
• Prototyping a solution
• Conceptualizing a business idea