Rich Dashboard ^BETA

Manage your digital workspace in one place

Part of our Customer Engagement offerings, Backbase Rich Dashboard is a rich Enterprise 2.0 presentation tier for mashup applications. Today it is hard to work with data and functions from existing applications that are distributed over multiple heterogeneous systems. Rich Dashboard lets you quickly unify different information sources and applications into a personalized and single view. It radically lowers the cost of implementing and managing the enterprise information presentation layer.

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What are the key advantages of Rich Dashboard?

• Lowers the cost of implementing and managing the enterprise information presentation layer
• Speeds the time to market of rich web front ends for SOA and enterprise application mashups
• Eases deployment with a light weight solution that requires no plug-in
• Integrates with any backend with a server agnostic architecture

What can you do with Rich Dashboard?

• Create a unified dashboard fast
• Build a strong foundation for creating composite apps with reusable rich UI gadgets
• Manage your digital workspace from one page
• Build rich intuitive & customizable interfaces with reusable gadgets
• Build Gadgets that include widgets or third party components like Flash based components.

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Who can use it and for what?

Any company can use a rich information presentation dashboard. We’ve seen Rich Dashboard used in Financial Services, Telecoms, Utilities, Government agencies, Healthcare, and many more. Applications ranged from technical support dashboards to dashboards for partners, employees, end-users, etc. In short, if you can think it, Rich Dashboard can do it.

Product Highlights:

Rich Dashboard is a light weight solution that’s easy to deploy. It is a full RIA client side platform that requires no plug-in.

Features & Benefits

Features	Benefits
UI Management
Pre-built layouts and widgets	Quickly create a dashboard layout that works for you and your customers
Template manager	Facilitates management of the different templates
Skinning	Let’s you customize color schemes and choose between pre-built and custom skins
Customizable interface	Add, move or delete gadgets easily
Drag and drop visualization	Make changes by dragging and dropping gadgets
Rich Gadgets	Create rich gadgets with widgets or by integrating third party components such as Google Maps, and Multimedia objects.
Personalization
Customizable environment	Manage user settings and preferences
SSO Integration	Integrate with single sign on infrastructure
Authentication & Authorization	Integrate with Identity Management Systems (e.g. LDAP)
Architecture
Light weight Ajax portal framework	Deploy easily with built-in browser support and no plug-in required
Standard based	Make a safe investment with full open industry standard support
Platform independent	Integrate easily with your existing environment. Rich Dashboard is client based, and as such works with all platforms
Scalable architecture	Invest in a proven scalable architecture. Backbase Rich Dashboard engine has been deployed to millions of users.
Secure enterprise grade	Use a rich enterprise framework with all the necessary tools for successful development & deployment
Development tools
Visual Gadget development	Develop new Gadgets fast with Eclipse based IDE
Professional debugging tool	Assure quality of your application with browser based debugging
Data connector	Facilitate Databinding for connectivity to relational databases (JDBC), multidimensional databases, XML, SOAP, JavaBeans, EJB, flat files, etc.
Data mashup	Develop data mashups across domain and multi data sources

How does it work?

Simply add existing Gadgets to your Rich Dashboard template, or create your own Gadgets by combining any of the 250+ widgets from the Backbase widget library. Rich Dashboard runs on top of the Backbase engine. The Backbase engine makes sure that the Rich Dashboard works in all major browsers. Because it lives on the client computer, Rich Dashboard and the Backbase engine are backend agnostic. This means that it works with any type of back-ends. For developers who need pre-built integration with databases, an optional Backbase Database Connector is available.

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