Toward a Business Architecture Dashboard

by Neal McWhorter

Almost all organizations have some level of ability to see a snapshot of how their organization is faring on a regular basis. That ability allows them to keep an eye on how well the organization is meeting its objectives on a daily or sometimes even a real-time basis. These dashboards typically cover the organization's financial data at the very least and often extend into monitoring of production line outputs and related metrics. In the logistics arenas, organizations have moved to having real-time data to track where shipments are from the postal sorting location down to the boxcar number of a particular train traveling across the country. Yet these dashboards provide only a very limited view into an organization.