In the Dashboard Visualization tab, you can create mock-ups of multiple dashboards with visualizations corresponding to artifacts in the Analysis tab. You can link widgets in this mock-up to Performance Analytics widgets.

The final outputs of your project are Performance Analytics dashboards, with perhaps separate dashboards or separate tabs corresponding to your Critical Success Factors and widgets displaying the measurements. In Performance Analytics, you cannot create these dashboards until all of the underlying indicators and breakdowns are created. Designing the widgets for these indicators is also somewhat technical, requiring at least a pa_power_user role. When you share the final dashboards, too often the viewers who need the dashboards send feedback that your designs did not quite meet their needs or expectations.

The KPI Composer Dashboard Visualization tab lets you start dashboard design much earlier in the workflow. You can start work on the visualization when you have only a conceptual tree of your success factors and measurements on the Analysis tab. Furthermore, you can involve other stakeholders earlier in the process. Use KPI Composer in presentations early on to get timely feedback, so when your project is complete, the dashboard viewers get the visualizations they expect.