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MIcrosoft Excel Dashboards & Reports
The BI concept is overtaking corporate executives who are eager to turn impossible amounts of
data into useful knowledge. As a result of this trend, software vendors who focus on BI and build
dashboards are coming out of the woodwork. Dashboards are ideal mechanisms for delivering
this targeted information in a graphical, user-friendly form. New consulting firms touting their
BI knowledge are popping up virtually every week. And even the traditional enterprise solution
providers like Business Objects and SAP are offering new BI capabilities presented in a dashboard format.
So maybe you’ve been hit with dashboard fever? Or maybe you are holding this book because
someone is asking you to create BI solutions (that is, create a dashboard) in Excel.
Although many IT managers would scoff at the thought of using Excel as a BI tool to create your
dashboard, Excel is inherently part of the enterprise BI tool portfolio. Whether IT managers are
keen to acknowledge it or not, most of the data analysis and reporting done in business today is
done by using a spreadsheet program. We see several significant reasons to use Excel as the
platform for your dashboards and reports. They are, as follows:
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