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New Dashboard Vendor: Bowstreet

With the exploding demand for corporate and departmental dashboards it should surprise no one that new product is showing up on a regular basis. What is somewhat surprising is that these products are not always coming from the usual suspects. Satori Group, developers of proCube, have recently announced their own dashboard product called OneGlance. We will provide more details after we meet with them in the next few weeks. Another vendor new to dashboards is Bowstreet, probably best known for their Portlet Factory. They have released a portal-based dashboard product and we believe it is a positive addition to the space.

We recently met with the senior executives, developers, and product managers at Bowstreet. These guys have done their homework. For a group of people 'new' to the dashboard space we were astonished by how much they understood about what customers are looking for and where the challenges lie. More importantly, this knowledge is reflected in their product. Besides all the standard charts, gauges, etc. in Bowstreet's Actionable Dashboards we were most impressed by the power of its profiling technology for customized views, built-in process workflow, service-oriented architecture for easier data access,and as the name implies, the actionable and collaborative nature of it. One of the challenges of dashboards is making them truly actionable, and the portal framework goes a long way to helping achieve this goal. While viewing your key performance indicators on the dashboard you can run another application to get a more detailed view of the metric, or run an application that allows you to act on the data you have just viewed.

As the dashboard market continues to grow and evolve each new entrant needs to demonstrate some differentiators to make a name for themselves, and we believe Bowstreet has successfully accomplished this.

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