Read a good article on CIO dashboards called “Hunting The Elusive CIO Dashboard” in Information Week. It seeks to describe the elusiveness of the due to the complexity of the data required to provide KPIs that can provide the business impact of performance, security and availability issues within an enterprise. They talk about how we are approximately 18 months out from having these capabilities…yet we have them at FireScope and have had them for a while.
It is important to note that using web services and other technologies can enhance the ability for users to define the KPIs that important to them and then to visualize it on a single dashboard. While not a trivial process it is definitely possible today by FireScope and others. Improvements are definitely possible but the underpinnings and framework are available today. Try it….you will like it!
