Real-time information is powerful for many applications. Below a small selection:

• Sales reports, sales numbers and inventory figures.
• Call minutes per call and categories.
• All kinds of periodic reports, trends and analysis.
• Stock prices, share volume, bid and ask totals.
• Website statistics, the number of visitors, hits, origin and browser.
• Server monitoring such as: processor, memory and disk usage.
• Cloud monitoring and virtual environments.
• Reports and statistics from log files, the CRM application, SAP server, email server, web services, syslog, etc.
• Security, the number of people in a office room.
• Weather conditions: temperature, wind direction, wind speed, rainfall and air pressure.
• The number of cars passing a given point.
• All kinds of figures and statistics in a CRM or database
• The number of hours worked on a project with costs specification.
• Network monitoring, uptime of servers and applications.
• Network weathermaps.
• Flow measurements of a router on the network.

Products are available for some applications.