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Define: "Single pane of glass"
What HR thinks it means:
A management console that unifies data from multiple software interfaces.
What it actually means:
"A mythological dashboard sold by vendors that actually just generates 15 new daily alerts you have to ignore."
Use it in a meeting:
"The new monitoring tool provides a single pane of glass, allowing us to watch all our servers crash simultaneously in high definition."
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