Systems and methods for enterprise web application dashboard management

A method, comprising:

• providing a user interface to create a dashboard of widgets, and publish widgets from one or more web applications;
• enabling a user to select at least one widget from published widgets stored on a first storage to arrange on the dashboard;
• and
• in response to a selection of a first widget from the published widgets to display in the dashboard, display the first widget in the dashboard if an entitlement associating the user to a third party data service accessed by the first widget is valid, and prevent display of the first widget in the dashboard if said entitlement is not found or is invalid,
• wherein said entitlement is accessed in first information associating one or more entitlements with each user and with each of a plurality of third party services, and
• wherein second information associates one or more entitlements with respective ones of the published widgets.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of a server computer processing system provides for:

• providing a user interface to create a dashboard of widgets, and publish widgets from one or more web applications;
• enabling the user to select at least one widget from published widgets stored on a first storage to arrange on the dashboard;
• and
• in response to a selection of a first widget from the published widgets to display in the dashboard, display the first widget in the dashboard if an entitlement associating the user to a third party data service accessed by the first widget is valid, and prevent display of the first widget in the dashboard if said entitlement is not found or is invalid,
• wherein said entitlement is accessed in first information associating one or more entitlements with each user and with each of a plurality of third party services, and
• wherein second information associates one or more entitlements with respective ones of the published widgets.