We’ve had a long-running survey on our Mashup Developer Community that asks ‘Where do you think mashups are most relevant?’. And the clear winner, with 41% of the vote, is 'Dashboards and Decision Support Technologies', beating out options like 'Portals' and 'SOA'.
Message received! In fact I am happy to say that, with the June 2010 release of Presto (version 3.0, which we refer to as the 'Enterprise App Store' release), we will have an entirely new tool called Presto Mashboard. And I think that we've taken traditional dashboards and added a few spicy ideas of our own.
At first glance Mashboard might appear similar to Google Desktop, as an interactive ‘Web 2.0’ dashboard for web-savvy users to organize their Apps in customizable layouts. But Mashboard is also much, much more.
A screenshot of Presto Mashboard, the drag-and-drop way to create sophisticated App Groups.
Most importantly, Apps in Mashboard aren't static reports showing individual data sources. The Apps are mashup-driven: dynamic, customizable views of many sources, mashed and transformed to specific needs. A lot of power in a little package.
Mashboard also supports grouping sets of Apps that are brought together for a particular application or purpose. These groups can be shared, just like individual Apps, to other instances of Mashboard, or to popular enterprise collaboration destinations like SharePoint, iGoogle, or simply to a web browser. And I’ve already seen some great Mashboard-based solutions created by our mashup developer community, like the Disaster Response Dashboard.
I think the previous generation of dashboards were great for their time. But with the opportunity to create dynamic, flexible mashup-driven Apps rapidly and in a visual environment, I think the next generation of dashboards is more than just a pretty face.
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