Business Intelligence (BI) tools have taken the business world by storm. According to new research, over 80% of executives believe that tools such as advanced visualization, dashboards, and reporting are critical tools when it comes to parsing data. However, many end users aren’t bringing in those dashboards because they really use them, rather they are hoping to get a sense of security (incorrectly) that they will know everything about their business.

At LogicMonitor, we talk to customers and prospects constantly. This enables us to observe trends in requests for new features and functionality. There are two major topics that prospects and customers have been raising recently.

I joined BigPanda a year ago yesterday – and I can truly say it’s been one of the most intense and exciting years, both personally and professionally. A roller-coaster ride of PG activities, POVs and nourishing partnerships with our prospects and customers. And looking back at all that I’ve gone through, one of my strongest takeaways is that while our product is amazing and our POVs are rock solid, in the end it’s the people who tip the scales.

OnPage has always been dedicated to providing powerful features, ensuring that healthcare practitioners streamline their communications, operations and workflows. Today, OnPage is taking another step forward with its latest release, offering new capabilities and features built for today’s healthcare organizations. I’ll now highlight some on the latest and greatest additions to OnPage’s clinical communications and pager replacement platform.

Recently, while working with a customer, I saw a really cool use of PagerTree’s Stakeholder Notifications to send messages into a Slack channel. They did this by using the Slack’s Email to Slack integration along with PagerTree’s Stakeholder notifications. Today I’d like to share with you how they did it.

To make your application monitoring easier, we’ve built a tighter integration between AlarmsOne and Applications Manager. AlarmsOne already has a Poller-based integration with Applications Manager; however, now it has a webhook integration that will have you receiving alerts in a jiffy.