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Fugo secures intelligence data with TV Dashboards

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January 18, 2022

Digital signage software provider Fugo has launched the TV Dashboards feature, allowing businesses to securely display intelligence dashboards on digital signage screens, according to a press release.

"BI dashboards are hard to share," Camilla Chesham, Fugo co-founder and CEO, said in the release. "They have expensive license restrictions with limited user seats and are locked away behind security walls with annoying, but essential, logins. In fact, security concerns alone are enough to cause most companies to get put off sharing their dashboards via the usual email or URL channels altogether. A great way to overcome these issues and reap a whole host of additional benefits is to display your dashboards on your office screens. But we quickly discovered that this is easier said than done."

Fugo CTO Zuka Kakabadze said there are challenges behind secure TV dashboards.

"The existing solutions that launch dashboards from a browser just don't scale and suffer from two major problems: inconsistent playback due to the computing power needed to stream data-intensive dashboards and insecure methods of accessing dashboards that expose your security credentials to screen devices," Kakabadze said in the release.

Fugo's approach integrates with a host of analytics tools like Tableau, Looker, and Power BI, and doesn't expose users' data or login credentials to screen devices and players. Instead, according to the release, it accesses them from a secure and isolated cloud environment that captures snapshots of dashboards to display on screen and refresh in real-time.

"At Nordward, we work intensely with all employees to set actionable team key results, and it is thanks to Looker we can extract, view, and attain insights regarding those from our business data," Christian Ahlin, group head of IT at Nordward and Fugo customer, said in the release. "But since we sell seafood (a physical goods company), it is thanks to Fugo, we can reach all employees in an easy and reliable way, to constructively and transparently inspire teams to take action and collaborate to reach their key results."

The TV Dashboards feature employs a screen-capturing tool for users to select certain portions of their dashboards to highlight on their displays. A content design studio allows users to pull data from multiple sources and dashboards by splitting up their screen. Users can also create an embedded channel for their teams to view dashboards in other tools like Notion, Slack, or on internal websites.