I recently returned from a trip to Minneapolis after attending this year’s HITEC show. As an HFTP member (Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals), it’s always a pleasure to connect with peers and discover what they’re doing at their properties. However,…

Embrace the performance reality; you have seven minutes to leave a lasting impression. I think all HR professionals would agree that in today’s business environment, there is an ongoing challenge to transform the perception of the human resources department from…

Whenever someone asks me what I do for a living, I begin my response with “I work at a company called iDashboards”. Like clockwork, the canned response is always, “oh like dashboards for a car.” Of course this is not…

Did you know that charts and dashboards can be exported from one installation of iDashboards (called the source installation) and imported into another installation of iDashboards (called the target installation)? Charts and dashboards are exported to an iDashboards archive file…

Hello, loyal readers. If you’ve been reading our blog for a while, you know that successful dashboard projects must be planned carefully. If you need a refresher, our dashboard storyboarding article explains how to define the What, Who, and When…

As we all know, today’s healthcare environment is changing and demands for accountability – from true outcomes to demonstrated, proven cost-effectiveness – are becoming more important each and every day. In the mental-behavioral health field, the focus has shifted away from…

Over the holidays and into the New Year, my son and I played a silly game around the house. We took up the nonsense of talking like the people on an infomercial. We took common, everyday conversation and added exaggerated,…

As a part of the technical support team I have helped customers create data source connections to databases anywhere from MS Excel, MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2 to even some legacy databases such as FoxPro. In Support, we…

Here at iDashboards we have been seeing a growing number of transportation and logistics companies adopting dashboards to help drive their businesses. With many transportation and logistics companies, if data analysis is being done, users are exporting data to Excel…

Working as a Technical Consultant on the Professional Services team has afforded me the opportunity to see iDashboards implemented across many business verticals; everything from Mom & Pop startups to Fortune 500 companies. I have worked directly with a wide…