Single admin consoles are overrated

Huge, complicated software products often tout having a single admin console as a benefit.  Sounds great, and the marketing makes it sound good.

Think about this for a minute: Do you use the same application to write documents as to build spreadsheets?  Do you work with your email from your FTP client?

Specific tasks call for specific applications or UIs.  There is no extra benefit to having a single console for multiple products over single purpose consoles with solutions that integrate on the back end.

Of course, the counterpart of this is having multiple consoles for the same product (as those familiar with Citrix Presentation Server 4.5 would be familar with) – that’s just plain wrong.

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2 comments

  1. Paul
    June 18, 2009 at 10:36 am

    Yeah but who doesn’t love a good dashboard.

  2. James Kahn
    June 18, 2009 at 11:05 am

    Nothing wrong with a good dashboard, that’s for sure.

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