For example, a keyhole real-time dashboard might inform a product manager that sales orders were 40 percent below normal in the morning.

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When that annoying "check engine" light appears on your dashboard, for instance, the service manager sees it, too, on his computer.

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In a blog post Wednesday afternoon, Mobile Product Manager Rose Yao explained some of the details of what the mobile dashboard actually does.

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