Companies derive great benefit and trust from employees, investors, customers and guests when they provide accurate, up-to-date information based upon their processes. The most effective and least burdening way to provide this information is to retrieve real-time information on company statistics and operations from live data sources and display this information on employees’ existing desktop computers. Primate Technologies, Inc. has a product, BlackBoard, to assist in providing this information without stretching existing staff with cumbersome maintenance.

BlackBoard was designed to effectively relay information electronically. There are no local applications for each desktop computer that require additional maintenance staff of the information service team. The data is maintained at the server and the only maintenance required is to keep the server running, perform backups, and to administratively authorized users for display access.

The charting and trending features of BlackBoard easily portray trends and make comparisons to data from previous minutes, weeks or years. Comparing data from similar days or weeks shows overall business trends. Capturing, automating, and reporting this in real-time provides an excellent way to celebrate successes immediately and to correct potential problems prior to their escalation. The inclusion of existing real-time company information in these data trends may prevent employees from making business decisions that previously had poor results - instead, employees make decisions that improve previous trends.

The scalable vector graphics (SVG) standard upon which BlackBoard is based is ideal at scaling text and symbols as the electronic display format changes. For example, the same dashboard is as easily rendered on a 15 inch desktop monitor as it is on a 72 inch plasma screen - all without impact or choppiness as the text and symbols are resized within windows. BlackBoard is an ideal solution to keep staff knowledgeable and allow them to quickly see trends.