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This category provides the latest news and updates related to Spider Strategies, as well as technological advancements relevant to strategy execution and performance management. It covers new features, partnerships, achievements, and industry trends. Stay informed about the innovations and developments that are shaping the future of performance management and strategic planning.

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How AI Can Speed Up Strategy Reviews and Performance Analysis

How AI Can Speed Up Strategy Reviews and Performance Analysis

Teams spend a lot of time preparing for strategy reviews: pulling reports, checking KPIs, digging…

May 26, 2026 Read Article
How Government Dashboards Improve Transparency, Accountability, and Performance

How Government Dashboards Improve Transparency, Accountability, and Performance

Government agencies often struggle with fragmented systems and siloed data. Picture a city council…

January 8, 2026 Read Article
The Strategic Platform Advantage: Why Embedded AI Beats Bolt-On Solutions

The Strategic Platform Advantage: Why Embedded AI Beats Bolt-On Solutions

Every organization pursuing AI faces the same challenge: mounting security concerns and frustrating…

November 19, 2025 Read Article
Spider Impact 5.8: Enterprise AI and No-Code Apps

Spider Impact 5.8: Enterprise AI and No-Code Apps

We're excited to announce Spider Impact 5.8, our most transformative update yet.

October 31, 2025 Read Article
Spider Impact 5.7: Visualize Your Strategy

Spider Impact 5.7: Visualize Your Strategy

We're thrilled to announce the release of Spider Impact 5.7, our most significant update yet to how…

November 26, 2024 Read Article
Introducing Spider Impact 5.6

Introducing Spider Impact 5.6

We’re incredibly proud to announce the release of Spider Impact 5.6.

October 25, 2023 Read Article
FedRAMP Authorization: What It Means for Federal Strategy & Performance Management

FedRAMP Authorization: What It Means for Federal Strategy & Performance Management

FedRAMP authorization has become a baseline requirement for cloud software used by federal agencies…

January 12, 2023 Read Article
"Walk and Talk" US Army Briefing

"Walk and Talk" US Army Briefing

The US Army uses Spider Impact as the software for its Strategic Management System (SMS), which is…

December 13, 2022 Read Article
Introducing Spider Impact 5.5

Introducing Spider Impact 5.5

We’re incredibly proud to announce the release of Spider Impact 5.5.

October 12, 2022 Read Article
How To: Snap-to Alignment Options in Spider Impact

How To: Snap-to Alignment Options in Spider Impact

In this second article in our "how to" dashboard series, we will cover how to use the snap…

March 2, 2021 Read Article
How To: Lock, Align & Distribute Dashboard Widgets in Spider Impact

How To: Lock, Align & Distribute Dashboard Widgets in Spider Impact

Welcome to the first article in our Spider Impact "How To" series about Dashboards. In…

February 23, 2021 Read Article
Spider Impact How To: System-Wide Alerts

Spider Impact How To: System-Wide Alerts

With Spider Impact, you can ensure that you never miss a chance to improve performance by choosing…

February 16, 2021 Read Article
SQL Server Performance by Query Type

SQL Server Performance by Query Type

The SQL Server 2100 parameter limit is a pain to code around when selecting lots of rows by ID and…

November 3, 2014 Read Article
In Remembrance: Kirby Kitson

In Remembrance: Kirby Kitson

It is with a heavy heart that I write to say that yesterday Spider Strategies lost a beloved member…

November 16, 2012 Read Article
Progressive Enhancement

Progressive Enhancement

It's an exciting time in web development. New versions of web browsers come out all of the time…

July 10, 2012 Read Article

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Washington Business Journal 2012 Best Places to Work

Washington Business Journal 2012 Best Places to Work

We were just notified that we were named as one of the "Best Places to Work" by the…

April 23, 2012 Read Article
Washingtonian Magazine 2011

Washingtonian Magazine 2011

Once again we've been named one of the "50 Great Places to Work" by Washingtonian Magazine…

November 1, 2011 Read Article
Our Dun & Bradstreet Report Card

Our Dun & Bradstreet Report Card

We just got our Past Performance Evaluation from Dun & Bradstreet, and things are looking pretty…

July 21, 2011 Read Article
Improving Web App Performance with CSS Sprites

Improving Web App Performance with CSS Sprites

We’re always exploring ways to make our software run faster, and in Scoreboard 2.3 we've been able…

March 1, 2011 Read Article
Tools for SOAP Testing | Spider Strategies

Tools for SOAP Testing | Spider Strategies

Spider has done a significant amount of Web service extensions to our Scoreboard software throughout…

May 14, 2010 Read Article
Doing the "Right" Thing

Doing the "Right" Thing

I've been thinking a lot lately about Apple's new iPad and its lack of support for Flash graphics…

February 1, 2010 Read Article
Design Advice - Look and Feel

Design Advice - Look and Feel

Note: An old college friend recently asked me to critique the design of one of his web projects. I…

April 16, 2009 Read Article
Washington Business Journal 2008 Best Places to Work

Washington Business Journal 2008 Best Places to Work

The Washington Business Journal recently just voted us one of the "Top 50 Best Places to Work…

June 18, 2008 Read Article
Eliminating Session Timeouts

Eliminating Session Timeouts

This weekend, my mother told me about the trouble she had booking train tickets from Washington, DC…

December 10, 2007 Read Article
Washingtonian 2007 Great Places To Work

Washingtonian 2007 Great Places To Work

Washingtonian magazine's 2007 "Great Places to Work" issue hit newsstands today, and we…

November 30, 2007 Read Article
Textarea Maxlength with JavaScript Intrinsic Events

Textarea Maxlength with JavaScript Intrinsic Events

With the wonderful implementations of AJAX, many people (myself included) tend to look first within…

September 12, 2007 Read Article

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Using Chainsaw for Log Viewing

Using Chainsaw for Log Viewing

If you're a programmer, no doubt you've the occasional, if not constant, need to read the logging…

July 11, 2007 Read Article
Web 2.0 Simplified

Web 2.0 Simplified

I Found this wandering around the web and it is a very entertaining explanation of what Web 2.0 is…

May 25, 2007 Read Article
Let Development Inform Design

Let Development Inform Design

For the past few weeks we’ve been working on implementing the Meetings module in CMS. One of our…

May 8, 2007 Read Article
Networking with Virtual PC 2007

Networking with Virtual PC 2007

I wrote a post last month about how impressed I was with Virtual PC 2007 and how it has changed the…

April 15, 2007 Read Article
Development Debt, Part 2

Development Debt, Part 2

On Friday I blogged about the disconnect between Theory and Reality in software development. This…

March 5, 2007 Read Article
Test as Side-effect

Test as Side-effect

I sometimes regard the term "unit test" as unfortunate. It's certainly important that…

February 22, 2007 Read Article
Smart JavaScript Caching

Smart JavaScript Caching

Like many web-based software companies, a significant part of our frontend logic is dependent on…

February 9, 2007 Read Article
Test Driven Development

Test Driven Development

Here at Spider Strategies, we strive to use the latest and greatest technologies and software…

February 2, 2007 Read Article
Getting Real and paying development debt

Getting Real and paying development debt

We've recently stumbled onto a book by 37signals (the people behind Ruby on Rails) that has gotten…

January 30, 2007 Read Article

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