iDashboards.

• Position: BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

iDashboards, a provider of business intelligence dashboard software, has announced the availability of version 5.0. iDashboards is an enterprise dashboard application helping companies leverage their information assets in real time through visually rich, responsive and personalized business intelligence dashboards.

The Troy, Mich.-based company says the latest features in iDashboards 5.0 include:

* Connectivity to Excel spreadsheets -- Employees no longer have to email Excel spreadsheets back and forth. They can view the data online, in rich presentation format.

* Custom mapping -- Completely customizable mapping capability, as well as new pre-built maps (either geographical or spatial) in the chart library.

* Additional charting options -- Adding to its library of more than 25 charting options, iDashboards 5.0 now includes bubble charts, configurable speedometer dials, metrics chart with option to represent the euro symbol and new transparent legends.

* Customization -- Users can create customized presentation formats, including flow charts, images...