
Microsoft discussed enhancements to its <A HREF="http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB20000606S0016">Digital Dashboard</A> 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 and 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."