En RSS: Promise an Peril, de Tim Bray:
Sales Tracking Most companies of any size go to all sorts of work to track the activities of their salesforce and the progress of potential sales through “the pipeline.” A lot of managers I know (including me) would be delighted if whenever something significant happened out there in sales-land, it showed up in my aggregator. You’d need a little bit of smarts in how the feeds were generated, in terms of filtering rules and thresholds and so on, but once again, not rocket science.
And I think you could generalize from tracking sales to tracking almost anything. Some people monitor manufacturing, some monitor shipping, almost everyone monitors something. And in a lot of cases, the aggregator is the right place to monitor it.
