Business Intelligence Software

Park Ridge, IL — May 7, 2007

Small and mid-sized businesses can now take advantage of the same type of software used by Fortune 500 companies to display and monitor essential business activity and performance. The new Management Dashboards technology from George S. May International Company www.georgesmay.com differs from other dashboard software because it’s specifically designed for use with QuickBooks® and other common databases typically used by smaller companies.

The new software can be customized to overlay computerized database information for virtually any type of business, including construction and manufacturing companies, health services, wholesalers, distributors, transportation firms, retailers and hospitality providers. A company’s specific information is accessible by authorized users from anywhere there is Internet access.

May International, Park Ridge, Ill., is offering the new technology through a partnership with iDashboards, Troy, Mich., which introduced the management system to large companies several years ago. It is now recognized as the leader in enterprise dashboard software.

“Management Dashboards software provides business owners with the insight and understanding needed to make better and faster decisions by visually representing business data in real time,” said Israel Kushnir, president of family-owned May International, which was founded in 1925. “We’re excited to be partnering with the leader in this field to help small and mid-sized business owners take advantage of technology that’s really only been available until now to very large companies.”

While the dashboard concept was created initially to focus on financial metrics of sales, income, liabilities and profits, the Management Dashboards software from May International can display and track any type of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) or data that a business can gather and place into a relational database.

Every business has certain crucial measures of business performance. KPIs may be developed to measure a company’s general business activity, such as the number of items produced, sales made and orders filled. In addition, KPIs also may be used to track the activities of functional departments, such as sales and marketing, human resources and customer service.     

May International consultants assist companies in establishing the KPIs to be displayed based on existing or new data a company wishes to start collecting. The Management Dashboards software is then programmed to convert the numerical data from a database into visual formats for display on computer screens. Management Dashboards also reads the key financial data most business users of QuickBooks already track, converting accounts receivable, assets and liabilities, net income, profitability and sales into tables, graphs and performance dials.

“We have found that two major obstacles stand in the way of business owners managing their companies more effectively,” Kushnir said. “One is the difficulty in understanding the data they have. The second is difficulty in determining the cause-and-effect relationships among the different data. Management Dashboards helps business owners overcome these obstacles.”

The most widely used financial and accounting software at small and mid-sized businesses is QuickBooks® from Intuit®, Kushnir explained. Any company using QuickBooks can more quickly appreciate data and relationships by using Management Dashboards to convert rows and columns of numbers into illustrative tables, graphs and performance dials.

Business owners and executives also can use Management Dashboards to “drill down” to deeper layers of information or look at the same financial measures for the previous day, week, month, quarter, year or whatever timeframe is desired. By displaying historical and current information, Management Dashboards provides a user with the ability to see directions and trends developing in company finances and operations. This real-time knowledge allows business owners to take proactive measures to correct or improve financial performance.

Management Dashboards is available from May International through the Internet at www.gsmdashboards.com. For additional information and for an online demo, call 847-993-5443.

About George S. May International Company

George S. May International Company is one of the first management consulting firms established in the United States. Since 1925, it has been helping business owners improve their operations, profits, efficiency and effectiveness. The company has offices in Park Ridge, Ill.; Montreal, Canada; and Mexico City, Mexico. For more information, please visit www.georgesmay.com.

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Needham, MA — November 3, 2005

The Healthcare Management Council, Inc. (HMC), a non-traditional acute care hospital-benchmarking firm in Needham, MA, announces today yet another addition to its Performance Management product line, Digital Dashboards. Like other dashboard offerings, Digital Dashboards is a tool designed to simplify the consolidation and display of hospital performance improvement results. But unlike others, iDashboards can pull information from any person or IT system simply and flexibly. The design is unique in that it simplifies the collection of mission-critical process results through the use of email invitations as well as IT system linkages. Results from process participants are not only summarized like other systems, but root cause explanations of problems are easily attached.

Digital Dashboards is part of a suite of HMC tools to simplify the generation of ideas (Idea Trees™), creation of action plans (Action Plan Developer™) and the measurement and communication of results (Trackers™ and the Digital Dashboards) all from a simple integrated internet portal. Both department managers and hospital executives use these tools to monitor action plans that focus on key strategic initiatives. Together they give a hospital a more complete view of current performance improvement efforts, and where performance is headed.

Partners of HMC share acute hospital general ledger and clinical data. Then HMC codes the data to specific pre-defined functional areas to compare costs to the same costs at other hospitals. Hospitals then use the HMC suite of products to support hospital managers in the project development phase and to move managers to action that will yield measurable results.

An example of this technology is the JCAHO’s Staffing Effectiveness Initiative, where balancing quality and human resource information is critical. But it’s not enough to track indicators over time, JCAHO would like to know what’s being done about it. By integrating the indicators with action plans, performance improvement efforts like these can be organized and viewed in one location.

HMC President Tom Day says, “While the concept of a Balanced Scorecard is not new, many organizations still struggle with the data collection process. The introduction of Digital Dashboards is a continuation of our mission to make access to information ‘friction-free’. We’re addressing that head on. We’re all about the quality and timeliness of information, and the Digital Dashboards move us along that path.”

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Related IDashboards Press Releases

Denver, CO — November 25, 2008

Shadan Malik President and Chief Executive Officer of iDashboards, recently participated in an exclusive interview with Mary Jo Nott and the BeyeNETWORK (www.BeyeNETWORK.com). In this interview, Malik discusses iDashboards’ innovations in the presentation of visual intelligence via dashboards.

“Our team of innovative thinkers has created iDashboards 6.0 which moves the reality of broad user adoption and performance management to a new level,” says Shadan Malik, President and CEO for iDashboards.

“The customer-facing dashboards iDashboards created for the Olympics and the 2008 Presidential Election are indicative of the robust business intelligence technology available with a click of the button for all levels of users,” says Mary Jo Nott, Executive Editor of the BeyeNETWORK.

To listen to the interview, please click here.

The BeyeNETWORK Spotlights are intuitive dialogues with innovative solution providers, and these spotlights provide a cutting-edge introduction to the new products and services of interest to the business intelligence community. The Network publishes six newsletters serving more than 115,000 readers across a wide variety of industries, making it the largest newsletter-based information source for business intelligence, performance management, data warehousing, data integration and data quality.

About iDashboards:

Through its award-winning engineering and patented software, iDashboards helps companies leverage information assets through visually rich, real-time and personalized business intelligence dashboards to analyze, track, and drill down through a wealth of information. iDashboards’ global customer base consists of organizations ranging from large, fortune 500 companies to small and medium-sized businesses, all of which are making quicker, well-informed business decisions with the help of iDashboards.

To view interactive dashboards demos please visit: Presidential 2008 and Olympics 2008.

About BeyeNETWORK™:

The Network’s flagship site BeyeNETWORK.com leads the industry with up-to-the-minute news, newsletters, articles, executive spotlights, podcasts, expert-hosted channels and blogs. Experts include Claudia Imhoff, Bill Inmon, Craig Schiff, Colin White, David Loshin, and others. BeyeRESEARCH.com provides research and case studies from leading authors and experts in business intelligence. BeyeBLOGS.com is a business intelligence-specific community blogging site that provides an open forum about industry issues and challenges. BeyeSEARCH.com offers the first and only editor-driven directory and search engine specially built to serve this industry.

This press release is based upon information provided by the Company. The BeyeNETWORK does not independently verify statements made and has no obligation to update these statements after the date of release.

Contact:

BeyeNETWORK

Katie Rostermundt

krostermundt @ b-eye-network.com

+1-262-780-0202

Contact:

iDashboards

Jena Murphy

jenam @ LEWISpr.com

+1-617-226-8846

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Denver, CO — January 3, 2008

Dave Ferguson, Director of Business Development for iDashboards, recently participated in an exclusive interview with Ron Powell and the Business Intelligence Network (www.BeyeNETWORK.com). In this interview, Mr. Ferguson discusses how they help companies easily leverage information assets through visually rich, real-time and personalized BI dashboards and explains their Business Activity Monitoring module for real-time monitoring of metrics and KPIs.

“iDashboards enables our clients to drive business decisions with better access to their important information, metrics, and KPIs. As best of breed enterprise dashboard software, iDashboards was designed to be easy to deploy, use, and support,” says Dave Ferguson, Director of Business Development for iDashboards. “Our value proposition is very simple: we provide real-time access to virtually any data, delivered through a cutting edge visual presentation layer and at a very low total cost of ownership.”

“Enterprise dashboards are very strategic for organizations today as companies realize the value they provide,” says Ron Powell, Cofounder and Editorial Director of the Business Intelligence Network. “iDashboards is easy and quick to implement and can pull data from any source, enabling their customers to make well-informed business decisions.”

To listen to the interview, please click here.

The Business Intelligence Network Solution Spotlights are intuitive dialogues with innovative solution providers, and these spotlights provide a cutting-edge introduction to the new products and services of interest to the business intelligence community. The Network publishes six newsletters serving more than 115,000 readers across a wide variety of industries, making it the largest newsletter-based information source for business intelligence, performance management, data warehousing, data integration and data quality.

About iDashboards

Through its award-winning engineering and patented software, iDashboards helps companies leverage information assets through visually rich, real-time and personalized business intelligence dashboards to analyze, track and drill-down through a wealth of information. iDashboards’ global customer base consists of organizations ranging from large, fortune 500 companies to small and medium-sized businesses, all of which are making quicker, well-informed business decisions with the help of iDashboards.

About Business Intelligence Network™

The Network’s flagship site BeyeNETWORK.com leads the industry with up-to-the-minute news, newsletters, articles, executive spotlights, podcasts, expert-hosted channels and blogs. Experts include Claudia Imhoff, Bill Inmon, Craig Schiff, Colin White, David Loshin, and others. BeyeRESEARCH.com provides research and case studies from leading authors and experts in business intelligence. BeyeBLOGS.com is a business intelligence-specific community blogging site that provides an open forum about industry issues and challenges. BeyeSEARCH.com offers the first and only editor-driven directory and search engine specially built to serve this industry.

This press release is based upon information provided by the Company. The Business Intelligence Network does not independently verify statements made and has no obligation to update these statements after the date of release.

Contact:

Business Intelligence Network

Katie Rostermundt

262-780-0202

krostermundt @ b-eye-network.com

Contact:

iDashboards

LEWIS PR

Vanessa Apicerno

617-226-8840

iDashboards @ lewispr.com

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