BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS — HOW TO GAUGE SUCCESS

Beyond dashboards, several of the industry execs see alerting/notification functions as another type of business intelligence capability potentially offered in management solutions. This enables "managing by exception," they note.

Users can define parameters for activities recorded in the database, such as exceeding the 30 minutes estimated for press makeready, and then the system will alert designated personnel via the client software or e-mail whenever an exception is detected.