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Listen: Business Systems & Models 2010 Telesummit
Allan Wille discusses BI and dashboard fundamentals, performance measurement philosophies, different types of dashboards, best practices as well as price points. Listen to the MP3 (68min)

New: 3 Steps to Monitoring the Impact of Social Media on Your Business
Monitoring how blogs, forums, message boards, twitter feeds, and a fast-growing number of other social media affect business is rapidly becoming an essential part of managing performance. But knowing how to do it can be a challenge. Here's a 3-step roadmap for making social media monitoring part of your marketing and performance strategies.

New: Klipfolio Dashboard and your network: The top five ways Klipfolio saves your network capacity
We know that one of your greatest IT costs is network connectivity, so one of our primary design objectives is to reduce the impact of Klipfolio Dashboard on your network to the absolute minimum. Read about 5 different ways that Klipfolio Dashboard saves precious bandwidth.

New: Necessities of OLAP Visualization
OLAP increases the number of users leveraging business intelligence. With the power in more hands, it is vital to ensure that the data is visualized in a way that makes sense to reduce the chance of poor decisions based on a misunderstanding.

Customer Profile: Summit Sports
"We looked at lots of dashboards and had almost decided to build one in-house... A dashboard needs to be compelling, and Klipfolio Dashboard presents the data in a way that's intriguing."

Operational dashboard vs. Analytical dashboards: what problem are you solving?
Lyndsay Wise explains how operational, or KPI dashboards tell you if you're on target today; analytical dashboards set targets for tomorrow; and how to choose by knowing what problem you need to solve.

Customer Profile: Premier Stationery
"Klipfolio gives us a minimum of an hour a day saved." The extra hour gives the order processing group more time for important, value-added activities like checking out process exceptions and spotting opportunities. Who couldn't do with an extra hour a day?

Trends: Dashboard Trends for 2010
From operational dashboards to geo-spatial data visualization, Lyndsay Wise paints an exciting picture of the trends expected to shape the world of business dashboards over the months ahead.

BeyeNETWORK: Spotlight on Klipfolio
Mary Jo Nott, executive editor for BeyeNETWORK interviews Klipfolio CEO, Allan Wille.

OEM Dashboards. 5 Ways They Make Good Software Better.
Leveraging your enterprise application with a dashboard on the desktop means increased performance and profitability for your customers.

Economy: 4 Reasons You'd Better Have a Desktop Dashboard in a Bear Market
If monitoring performance is important at the best of times, it's critical in a challenging economy.

Trends: Using dashboards to enable Six Sigma
Lyndsay Wise on how dashboards leverage a Six Sigma investment for maximum benefit by helping set targets and monitor results.

Front and Center for Internal Communications
Dashboards aren't just for the Business Intelligence Analyst anymore.

Driving Adoption and Performance from the Desktop
Innate awareness of performance hinges on unavoidable KPI reporting.

3 Rules of Dashboarding. Dashboards and the Human Condition
The end game for business intelligence systems.

Are you Focused on Your Priorities?
A look at the desktops of different business users across an enterprise.

Survey Results: How do you access critical business information?
The results are in. And some might surprise you!