
Microsoft discussed enhancements to its Digital Dashboard concept at its annual TechEd event in Orlando, Fla. According to Stan Sorensen, group product manager of server applications at Microsoft, “We created Web Parts, a set of technologies, components that make up the digital dashboard an that talk to any number of back-end services–Exchange, the file system, [Lotus] Domino, Oracle, MySAP database–and plug those into my Digital Dashboard to give me a highly customized interface.”