The industrial software features Visual EstiTrack Executive Dashboard, which is an executive monitoring tool designed to provide company managers with summarized ERP data focusing on relevant key business metrics and trends in a graphical user interface. This dashboard can be configured to provide pre-summarized trending data based on the user’s needs and timed to provide the information based on a specific schedule (for example, by day, week, month or year). The dashboard’s “Talk to Me Technology” feature can offer “verbal” briefings on key business metrics.