Speeding up the creation of standards-based, active dashboards 

IBM® Workplace™ Dashboard Framework delivers reusable service-oriented components, robust administration tools, and dashboard-specific features that speed the creation of standards-based, active dashboards. By leveraging Workplace Dashboard Framework, companies can quickly deploy highly tailored dashboards that consolidate data and processes from multiple back end systems. In addition, dashboards built using Workplace Dashboard Framework can facilitate problem resolution by enabling action right from the dashboard. As a result, with Workplace Dashboard Framework, companies can help dramatically reduce their development costs and speed the time-to-value for their dashboard initiatives.

In today's competitive landscape, smart companies are deploying role-driven dashboards in order to improve decision making and speed the response to business events. Unfortunately, deploying custom dashboards can be a challenge. Companies often struggle trying to access the data needed to drive the dashboards, because it usually resides in multiple, disparate systems, including spreadsheets, data warehouses, and operational systems.

If companies can overcome their data issues, they often end up creating dashboards that display relatively static, read-only data. As a result, business users might be able to identify problems, but they can not take action to resolve these problems from within the dashboard. And, finally, many dashboard vendors only offer their products on top of proprietary infrastructures. This can significantly increase a company's cost of building and maintaining dashboard solutions.

IBM Workplace Dashboard Framework addresses these challenges by providing reusable components, robust administration tools, and dashboard-specific features that help speed the creation of standards-based, active dashboards. This offering, which augments the capabilities of IBM WebSphere Portlet Factory, can help dramatically reduce the development costs and speeds the time-to-value for a company's dashboard initiatives.

IBM Workplace Dashboard Framework

    * Helps reduce dashboard development and maintenance costs.
    * Enables users to take action directly from the dashboard, speeding problem resolution.
    * Delivers tailored information to users based on their roles and preferences.
    * Facilitates improved visibility into business operations with timely, relevant data.