An Enterprise Dashboard is how Larry Ellison runs his empire? Yep, take a look at the article linked to in this post and you’ll see that he is one of those guys that liked a product so much that he bought the company! Ellison owns 50% of the enterprise dashboard company, Netsuite.

Here is a screenshot of a portlet from Larry Ellison’s Netsuite dashboard. It’s featured in http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=41605. Also, here’s a business week article on executive dashboards that explain’s how Ellison uses his dashboard.

Update: What do you think of this categorization of enterprise dashboards by Malik?

Considering the myriad applications of dashboards within organizations, dashboards may be grouped into the following major categories:
• Enterprise performance dashboards
• Divisional dashboards
• Process/activity monitoring dashboards
• Application dashboards
• Customer dashboards
• Vendor dashboards

So what or who is The Dashboard Spy? As his about page states, The Dashboard Spy is just a guy interested in the design of business dashboards. He could not find any executive dashboard design source books and so set about creating his own. Finally convinced to post his extensive collection of dashboard screenshots online, he was amazed to find how popular it has become. If you have a nice screenshot to share, please leave a comment or send an email to info _at_ dashboardspy.com. Also check out The Dashboard Spy’s favorite books.