We live in a world of clichés and sayings. I spend over 50% of my time travelling to customer engagements and I hear a lot of regional sayings while teaching people how to visualize their data with iDashboards. And, I recently realized that a saying that is so relevant in my Midwest home this time [...]

“Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom.” – Clifford Stoll, famous author and astronomer So what’s the trick? How do we turn data into information and ultimately into wisdom? We could collect as much data as possible and load it into spreadsheets, but then what? It’s [...]

I’m about half way through a book right now called Black Swan, a book that explores the unknown, the uncertain, and the unexpected. I personally find myself fascinated by mankind’s inability to ever fully comprehend the complexity of a situation, not to mention the ramifications of the decisions we make. It’s an odd concept to [...]

If you are an executive in today’s ever-changing technology environment, it is likely that you are often faced with questions such as, “How will we stay on point with the strategic plans and keep customers happy? Of course businesses know about the social media buzz, but another popular tool that helps businesses achieve tremendous results [...]

Embrace the performance reality; you have seven minutes to leave a lasting impression. I think all HR professionals would agree that in today’s business environment, there is an ongoing challenge to transform the perception of the human resources department from a cost center to a strategic partner within their organization’s leadership team. HR is consistently [...]

Whenever someone asks me what I do for a living, I begin my response with “I work at a company called iDashboards”. Like clockwork, the canned response is always, “oh like dashboards for a car.” Of course this is not the case. But then again, what the IT world refers to as dashboards and what [...]

Determining course capacity for college administrators can be a difficult task. As administrators, we want to ensure that we have an adequate offering for our students, however we also must ensure that we are efficiently utilizing our resources and minimize excess capacity for courses. This can be a difficult balancing act for administrators. Having the [...]

As we all know, today’s healthcare environment is changing and demands for accountability – from true outcomes to demonstrated, proven cost-effectiveness – are becoming more important each and every day. In the Mental-Behavioral Health field the focus has shifted away from mere processes and procedures towards actual outcomes and performance based measurements. In other words, there [...]

This has undoubtedly been an interesting year for me, brimming with reasons to look back and take stock of where things are at. In the past year, I’ve spent time all over the world; from the Far East to Europe, the Middle East, and even Mexico, working with iDashboards customers and partners has truly been [...]

As a part of the technical support team I have helped customers create data source connections to databases anywhere from MS Excel, MS Access, SQL Server, Oracle, and DB2 to even some legacy databases such as FoxPro. In Support, we say that as long as a database has a valid ODBC/JDBC driver available, iDashboards should [...]