iDashboards Ships X Platform To Extend Enterprise BI 
iDashboards, a provider of Business Intelligence (BI) dashboard software, is shipping its X Platform, with major upgrades to alerts, drilldowns and UI to simplify and enrich enterprise-caliber BI apps.
iDashboards, a provider of Business Intelligence (BI) dashboard software, is shipping its X Platform, with major upgrades to alerts, drilldowns and UI to simplify and enrich BI apps across enterprise users.
iDashboards X Platform adds several new user interface/user experience, according to Shadan Malik, CEO of iDashboards. Among top add-ons are: Custom dashboard backgrounds; Ability to control chart transparency; and Capability to search across charts and dashboards. iDashboards X Platform provides our customers with a comprehensive business intelligence platform that is extremely easy to use,” Matik said in a statement.
In specific, the iDashboards X Platform extends the company’s dashboard software with alerts, analytics and reports that can:
- Notify users in real-time when a threshold is exceeded,
- Perform what-if analysis in real-time and dynamic calculations for real-time analytics
- Drilldown from a dashboard to a reports
- Embed video files with dashboards
“iDashboards X Platform provides our customers with a comprehensive business intelligence platform that is extremely easy to use.”
Shadan Malik
CEO
iDashboards
iDashBoards’ latest X Platform also adds interactivity and user awareness features. Customers can use iDashboards to create alerts based on definable data thresholds, and set alert notifications via email to go to predefined user groups. The analytics feature lets users perform what-if scenarios within the dashboard and the reports feature allows them to display dashboard data in PDF and HTML, Matik added.
Moreover, the iDashboards Platform X will scale BI to support up to tens of thousands of users, and can draw data from myriad enterprise data sources -- databases, data warehouses, spreadsheets, XML and others. All these data sources can be applied used to display KPIs and business metrics in a single location. Compliance with industry standards (XML, JDBC, ODBC, LDAP) simplifies installation and maintenance.
The iDashboards official blog described the chief benefits of Platform X this way:
“Using iDashboards, customers will be able to create alerts based on definable data thresholds, and set alert notifications via email to predefined user groups. The analytics feature allows users to perform what-if scenarios within the dashboard.
“With the reports feature, there is the ability to display dashboard data in PDF and HTML. It scales from ten to tens of thousands of users and draws data from databases, data warehouses, spreadsheets, XML and other data sources to display all KPIs and metrics in a single location. Its built-in security framework provides role-based user permissions and access control.”
iDashboards' Platform X builds on these key enterprise-class features:
- User Framework to support Web-based Flash/ Flex user interface on all browsers. System also sports secured log-in and role-based permissions.
- Dashboard drilldown and charts can supports drilldown displays to any depth level, provides auto-filtering of data within drilldowns.
- Real-Time User Filtering means charts can include multiple pivots, allowing users to select criteria to filter chart data
- Custom Views to support sticky notes on individual charts, as well as embedded text and simple Flash files within dashboard
- Security Framework to support access restrictions, role-based permissions, SSO and SSL certificate encryption.
- Data Connectivity to support all popular RDBMS using JDBC or ODBC, including Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, MS Access and others. Support for database tables and views, Excel spreadsheets, as well as stored procedures and custom SQL queries with joins, aggregations.
