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Excel Dashboards: do you need VBA?

Do you need VBA to create an Excel dashboard? Should you take the plunge and go beyond Excel formulas? Well, I think you should, but feel free to disagree. Charley Kyd, commenting on my review of his e-book, disagrees:
As a consultant, I visited too many clients where an Excel user had written some macros, used […]

10 tips to improve your Excel dashboard

Excel is a great (but underrated) BI tool. Several BI vendors gave up fighting it and offer Excel add-ins as front-ends for their BI solutions. So, if you want to create a dashboard you should consider Excel, since it really offers better functionalities than many other applications for a fraction of the […]

How to create a dashboard in Excel

Too often Excel is overlooked as a valid Business Information tool. Too often organization turn to expensive, proprietary BI solutions-that-become-problems after many months of expensive development. Too often the hidden agenda of some clueless IT dismiss Excel because of some stupid reasons. Excel is a powerful tool that can handle probably 80% of the business […]