Anyone knows how to make good dashboard?

[ngenme]

I am launching my own start up with a partner. It's location based advertising mobile application (not parking so I am not competing with anyone here).

My biz partner say that we should have a shiny dashboard where advertisers can login and see fancy graphs. I prefer some sales people handling customers with good comision.

Anyway, if we go the dashboard road, how to build one? Are there wordpress standard dashboard software? Should we program our self?

This is probably not an appropriate section. But some people here are familiar with dashboard. Which section I should move this too?