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Business Intelligence Dashboard Post.  Ready for an interesting dashboard to study? Let’s look at this IT dashboard.

Monitoring an automated task control management system is best done using a dashboard style interface. When you have lots of information to present and the need to allow for many possible drilldowns to detail levels, it’s hard not to use the dashboard approach. This enterprise dashboard allows the set up, execution and monitoring of IT related tasks such as scripts, batch jobs, database queries, etc. The tasks can be grouped according to system functions or business processes. The dashboard is a nice mix of machine level information such as utilization levels and business functions such as the business process flow diagram.

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