The demand for high performance and high availability of business-critical applications is fast becoming a cornerstone of business competence. Properly used, an enterprise IT dashboard can effectively track and communicate IT service availability, server performance, and infrastructure capacity at both a high, strategic level, and a granular level, providing a mechanism for clarity, insight, and better decision making on important IT-driven business issues.

There are key reasons why IT dashboards are essential in your IT operation: managing and monitoring Service Level Agreements; the assurance of IT service/application availability; combining the physical and virtual IT worlds; optimal enterprise server capacity; and the benefits of a proactive system health strategy. In these key areas, dashboards can be highly effective in turning complex data into accurate, actionable information that helps IT management make informed decisions quickly and proactively, manage IT change, ensure high availability, and support continuous improvement and strategic objectives across the enterprise.