Using the Web Part XML schema, corporate developers and partners can more easily create customizable digital dashboards that bring together personal, team, corporate and external information with single-click access to analytical and collaborative tools.
Web Parts can deliver any Web-based content such as XML, HTML or script.
Developers using Web Parts can build dashboards that provide a high level of end-user customization including the ability to change dashboard layout, add or remove content, or select a personalized style. Because Web Parts share a common schema they can be easily reused across dashboards, and catalogs of Web Parts can be created that allow system administrators to better manage and distribute digital dashboards throughout their organization. The Digital Dashboard Resource Kit 2.0 assists corporate developers in rapidly building and deploying dashboard solutions using sample templates and reusable Web Parts. The toolkit enables them to leverage their existing Internet skills to create dashboards using a catalog of reusable components and templates and to perform much of the customization without programming. A sample for the Microsoft Exchange 2000 Web Store will be available later this summer.