BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS — HOW TO GAUGE SUCCESS

It's only been since 2003 that the required tools and applications started to reach a level of performance where this type of data aggregation became practical, says Scott St. Cyr, CEO of Cyrious Software in Baton Rouge, LA. Microsoft has been a champion of software dashboards as a broader interface concept, he adds. Its .NET Framework and other technologies offer advantages for developers of production management applications running on the Windows platform, St. Cyr asserts.