iDashboards.iDashboards, a provider of business intelligence dashboard software, has announced the availability of version 5.0. iDashboards is an enterprise dashboard application helping companies leverage their information assets in real time through visually rich, responsive and personalized business intelligence dashboards. The Troy, Mich.-based company says the latest features in iDashboards 5.0 include: * Connectivity to Excel spreadsheets -- Employees no longer have to email Excel spreadsheets back and forth. They can view the data online, in rich presentation format. * Custom mapping -- Completely customizable mapping capability, as well as new pre-built maps (either geographical or spatial) in the chart library. * Additional charting options -- Adding to its library of more than 25 charting options, iDashboards 5.0 now includes bubble charts, configurable speedometer speedometer, instrument that indicates speed. A cable from an automotive speedometer is attached to the rear of the transmission of an automobile; the cable turns at a rate proportional to the speed of the car. dials, metrics chart with option to represent the euro symbol and new transparent legends. * Customization -- Users can create customized presentation formats, including flow charts, images and floor plans displaying color-coded metrics. * Support for Microsoft's Analysis Services (OLAP (OnLine Analytical Processing) Decision support software that allows the user to quickly analyze information that has been summarized into multidimensional views and hierarchies. OLAP tools are used to perform trend analysis on sales and financial information. ) -- The ability to seamlessly connect to data cubes in Microsoft's Analysis Services and visualize through animated charts within iDashboards. * iDashboards portlet A small window on a portal page. Portlet technology allows a portal page to be customized more quickly either internally by the development team or by the end user. Portlet technology can come as an adjunct to a portal server or as optional interfaces to ERP applications. -- The ability to embed interactive dashboards as portlets within any JSR JSR Java Specification Request JSR J Sargeant Reynolds Community College (Virginia) JSR Journal of Sedimentary Research JSR Jump to Subroutine (6502 processor instruction) 168-compliant portal such as BEA WebLogic, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) WebSphere, Jakarta Pluto and Vignette. Privately held iDashboards lists very large corporate customers such as Lockheed Martin, Unisys, ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. and Georgia Pacific. Web: www.idashboards.com. Content for this column has generally been developed from promotional materials sent by the companies, which have not paid to appear. |
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