| Creating Dashboards in Excel |
| 5 reasons to tell your management why Dashboards in Excel are useful. |
| Make better & faster decisions The idea of information dashboards is to have the most important information presented within a single page that allows people to understand what is going on and make decisions. |
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| We already have the software! Everyone have Excel installed on their desktops! Why not take advantage of it. Everyone can view our dashboard reports without additional softwares. We don’t need the IT folks to be involved. |
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| It’s way cheaper to do in Excel Compared to other business intelligence soft -wares that costs tens of thousands of dollars, Excel is a cost effective platform to create information dashboards. And did I mention we already have Excel on our desktops? |
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| It’s much more flexible With Excel, we can arrange our data and charts in familiar ways. We are free to create our dashboards in any manner we like. |
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| More Dashboarding Ideas: Read our collection of dashboard articles We can place our information dashboards in our next quarter performance reviews, upload it to the web, publish it to SharePoint servers, put them in PowerPoint presentations. We can spread our message and reach out to those who needs to know! |
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More Dashboard examples
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A balance sheet dashboard (click for bigger pic)
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A KPI dashboard (click for bigger pic)
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Information Technology dashboards![]()
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From Wall Street Journal to a Labour dashboard (click for bigger pic)![]()
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