Live dashboard

A system comprising a client device, and a computing device having a processor and a memory, the memory having instructions executable by the processor tangibly stored thereon, the instructions including instructions for:

• receiving a request for data, the request including criteria for data requested to be provided to the client device;
• selecting a data retrieval service from a plurality of services configured to retrieve the requested data;
• transmitting, via the selected service, at least some of the criteria to a staging database that includes transactional data;
• receiving from the staging database, via the service, data relevant to at least some of the criteria transmitted to the staging database;
• storing the data received from the staging database in a data structure included in the computing device;
• and
• transmitting at least some of the data stored in the data structure to the client device, wherein the at least some of the data includes a plurality of metric indicators, a plurality of category indicators, and a plurality of arrays containing report values corresponding to respective reports and configured in a manner to permit displaying at least some of the data transmitted from the computing device into the respective reports;
• the client device having a processor and a memory, the memory having instructions executable by the processor tangibly stored thereon, the instructions including instructions for:
• receiving, the data transmitted from the computing device, and displaying at least some of the data transmitted from the computing device into the respective reports;
• arranging the respective reports along a first axis by the metric indicators and along a second axis by the category indicators in a grid on a display on the client device such that each report along the first axis of the grid shares a common category indicator from the category indicators, and each report along the second axis of the grid shares a common metric indicator from the metric indicators.