Role-based dynamically customizable dashboards

• US 20060036595A1
• Filed: 08/12/2004
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Gilfix, Michael, Greene, David Perry, Roth, Daniel R., Prasad, Vani, Streit, William, Salinas, William R.
• Application Number:
  US10/916,978
• Publication Number:
  US 20060036595A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

The present invention provides for sharing information among a plurality of dashboards. Employment of at least one metric of a first dashboard is monitored. An indicia of the monitored metric is transmitted. The indicia of the monitored metric is received. An indicia associated with the monitored metric is displayed on a second dashboard, thereby enabling a user of the second dashboard to know what metrics a user of the first dashboard are employing.

Claims

1. A method for sharing information among a plurality of dashboards, comprising:

monitoring employment of at least one metric of a first dashboard;

transmitting an indicia of the monitored metric;

receiving the indicia of the monitored metric; and

displaying an indicia of the monitored metric on a second dashboard.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting the displayed indicia on the second dashboard.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising displaying information correlating to the selected displayed indicia on the second dashboard.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising deselecting the displayed indicia on the second dashboard.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising organizing the first dashboard and the second dashboard into a hierarchy.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising placing the first dashboard at a different level of the hierarchy than the second dashboard.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising placing the first dashboard at the same level of the hierarchy than the second dashboard.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising displaying the monitored metric as a function of the first dashboards position in the hierarchy.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the monitoring is performed on at least one other dashboard at the same level of the hierarchy.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising accessing the data associated with the at least one metric.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating indicia of use of the at least one metric, and displaying the indicia of use with the at least one metric.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising updating the at least one metric at a substantially periodic interval.

13. A system for sharing metrics between dashboards, comprising:

a first computer;

a second computer coupled to the first computer, wherein at least the first computer further comprises an associated metric monitor; and

wherein at least the second computer is configured to display a display indicia associated with a indicia generated by the metric monitor.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the first and second computer are associated through a hierarchy.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the second computer is further configured to display data associated with the indicia generated by the metric monitor.

16. A computer program product for sharing information among a plurality of dashboards, the computer program product having a medium with a computer program embodied thereon, the computer program comprising:

computer code for monitoring employment of at least one metric of a first dashboard;

computer code for transmitting an indicia of the monitored metric;

computer code for receiving the indicia of the monitored metric; and

computer code for displaying an indicia of the monitored metric on a second dashboard.

17. A processor for sharing information among a plurality of dashboards, the processor including a computer program comprising:

computer code for monitoring employment of at least one metric of a first dashboard;

computer code for transmitting an indicia of the monitored metric;

computer code for receiving the indicia of the monitored metric; and

computer code for displaying an indicia of the monitored metric on a second dashboard.

18. The processor of claim 17, further comprising computer code for selecting the displayed indicia on the second dashboard.

19. The processor of claim 18, further comprising computer code for displaying information correlating to the selected displayed indicia on the second dashboard.

20. The processor of claim 18, further comprising computer code for deselecting the displayed indicia on the second dashboard.