UI Makeover

This was a complete redesign of EMC Data Protection Advisor to improve usability. User experience objectives included:

• Reorganizing the user interface to clearly map to the key selling points, make the value proposition obvious, and counteract the stigma that DPA is merely a reporting tool
• Decreasing time to value while reducing dependence on sales engineers to deploy
• Maintaining backward compatibility

Samples include:

• New Navigation Model
• Dashboards
• Report Wizard

For comparison, here is the BEFORE screenshot:

New Navigation Model

New Navigation Model

The new navigation model provided separate sections for key functionality. Flyout menus allow users to easily review all functionality. In the previous version of DPA, key functionality was buried in the Tools menu.

Summary Dashboard

Backup Dashboard

Replication Dashboard

Dashboards

Dashboards provide key information at a glance. The redesign provides three default dashboards:

• Summary Dashboard - designed for the DPA Administrator
• Backup Dashboard - designed for the Backup Administrator
• Replication Dashboard - designed for a Data Protection Manager or Storage Administrator

Report Wizard

Report Wizard

With the previous version new users could not run reports without training. Infrequent users had to relearn steps each time they ran reports. To address these problems, we created a report wizard.