Nickname: Harriet

Review: This article makes dashboards sound like new news--which they aren't. It just sounds like Ellison has finally noticed them. The power in dashboards is not that you have them, but that they display accurate, consistent and timely data. Otherwise they are just pretty holiday wrapping on a present you don't need or care about.

Date reviewed: Feb 19, 2006 3:54 PM

Nickname: Risk Manager

Review: Excellent article. I would like to add that dashboards make a great way to monitor and control risk and liabilities. Risk managers and executives around the country were recently using their dashboards to identify all of their exposures in Louisiana. Those that couldn't probably wished they could have.

Date reviewed: Feb 16, 2006 9:57 PM

Nickname: David

Review: To get a quick peek at some dashboards around the industry, take a look at some CRM application web demos. While ERP is still just beginning to become open source and SMB, even the simplest and most basic e-commerce applications already have a backend dashboard, even if it's not hooked into the supply chain due to more luddite wholesalers.

Date reviewed: Feb 16, 2006 6:35 PM

Nickname: Lars Toomre

Review: This is a great and timely article. Toomre Capital Markets has created a blog entry that references this article and the subject of real-time Enterprise Risk Management for financial service firms. It can be viewed at http://www.toomre.com. Again this is a great and timely article!

Date reviewed: Feb 15, 2006 4:47 PM

Nickname: jason_mog

Review: I thought there should have been links on how I can learn more about dashboards and where to go to start one at my company.

Date reviewed: Feb 9, 2006 2:08 PM

Nickname: Gareth Davies, CEO Upside Outcomes Ltd

Review: This is the next revolution. This has been spawned by the incredible ease with which data can be collected, information moved from point to point and then consolidated. As it says in the article, however, executives can have hundreds of different measurements. This leads to a test of strategic thinking to act with wisdom now that we have the knowledge of what is going on (or what is reportedly going on).

Date reviewed: Feb 8, 2006 5:44 PM

Nickname: private jerry

Review: Great info.

Date reviewed: Feb 7, 2006 11:42 PM

Nickname: j-man

Review: My question regarding this article with Larry Ellison and his Web-based scorecarding, it seems that you never mention a company called MicroStrategy, which is chosen No. 1 by the OLAP survey for Web-based reporting, including scorecarding and dashboarding without having to aquire new companies like Oracle does. How come this company MicroStrategy is never mentioned in your articles?

Date reviewed: Feb 7, 2006 3:45 PM

Nickname: David

Review: This is a great article. I have been grappling with the idea of building a reporting system for a Social Security fund that I work for. I want managers to know in real time how we are serving our customers and how contributions stroll in, at the click of a button (and hopefully take action). The dashboard seems to have answered my problem!

Date reviewed: Feb 7, 2006 8:15 AM

Nickname: LeeB

Review: Our SMB product, the BScaler ERM, has an Executive Dashboard. Customers wonder how they ran things before, and talk of "addiction."

Date reviewed: Feb 6, 2006 11:07 PM