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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The type of post hoc study that Harvard did has to be moved into a real time dashboard for marketing and sales management as well as agents to see and use.

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The funds transfer group can see transactions in real-time through a Splunk dashboard rather than waiting for next-day reports.

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