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digital dashboard

• personalised desktop portal that focuses onbusiness intelligence knowledge management.Microsoft's version has launch screen including stockquotes, voice mail e-mail messages, calendar, weatherforecast, traffic information, access news feeds, customerand sales data, Internet conferences. A dashboardmight previously have been thought of as an executiveinformation system. In the future, digital dashboards couldbe available on personal assistants and cellularphones.["Gates pitches 'dashboards' to bevy top CEOs", BobTrott, pub. InfoWorld Electric, 1999-05-19].