1. Define the geography before you interpret the numbers
A dashboard can display location data, but a location label does not explain what the underlying number represents. Milton is recorded as a municipality in Rock County. Your firm may also serve clients elsewhere in the county, across Wisconsin or in another service area. Those are different reporting questions. A count for Milton should not automatically be presented as a Rock County count, a Wisconsin count, or a count of households or individuals. Bosseo’s public ROI Dashboard page says the product can show case-type and city data and can help answer which cities produce calls. That makes geographic definitions an important part of the buying discussion.
Recommended approach
Ask Bosseo to write down each geographic field, its boundary and its intended use before you approve a reporting structure. Decide whether Milton is a target city, an intake location, a client location, a service area or simply a filter. Keep Milton, Rock County and Wisconsin as separate dimensions unless the data definition supports combining them.
