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Dashboards speak an international language, right? In that case, you’ll have lots of fun figuring out these italian excel-based dashboards. Take a look at these MS Excel dashboard screenshots. The first shows the portlet-style presentation of the dashboard KPIs. The second shows the regular input view of the excel spreadsheet. Here is a link to a generic xls file. This link is to the production kpi dashboard and this link is the one to the marketing KPI version. Have fun with these excel dashboards.
Also, as a Dashboard Spy reader points out: “If you take the time to look over the dashboard, there’s some pretty cool things - unprotect the sheet with the charts and look how they did the gauge - It’s a pie chart with fancy formatting. It also fits very nicely on a single screen when you view it full-screen. In all, a very good job considering the tool used.”
Update: This just in from the Italian Dashboard team!:
Hi,
I have seen some nice traffic coming from dashboardspy, so we translated the Italian page into english. There could be some errors (sorry for this!), but please have a look at the page: www.excelling.it/excel/dashboard_en.aspI will keep you posted on updates, but you can count on the fact that there will be a lot of new cool excel dashboards. I you have suggestion, please tell us
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GF
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If you take the time to look over the dashboard, there’s some pretty cool things - unprotect the sheet with the charts and look how they did the gauge - It’s a pie chart with fancy formatting.
It also fits very nicely on a single screen when you view it full-screen. In all, a very good job considering the tool used.
Comment by Alex Kerin — May 30, 2006 @ 2:38 pm
I am trying to create a similiar excel dashboard for my company. This helps. I want to use my firm’s standard look and feel (colors, logos) but put it nicely into an excel spreadsheet with a dashboard tab. Excel dashboards rule.
Comment by Tom the Excel User — June 16, 2006 @ 7:52 am
May I suggest that you check out the sample Excel dashboards at this link?:
http://www.exceluser.com/dash/samples.htm
Also, with regard to gauges in dashboards, you might be interested in “Down With Gauges!” at this link:
http://www.exceluser.com/dash/gauges_no.htm
Regards,
Charley Kyd
Comment by Charley Kyd — October 5, 2006 @ 7:07 pm
Check out MicroCharts for Excel dashboards:
http://www.bonavistasystems.com
MicroCharts enhances Excel with sparklines, bullet graphs and other in-cell charts.
The MicroCharts dashboard won of the 2006 Data Visualization Competition:
http://www.bonavistasystems.com/OnlineDemoReports.html
Comment by Andreas Flockermann — October 31, 2006 @ 4:55 pm
Do you have any Xcelsius Dashboard examples for us to download? I understand that Business Objects Crystal Xcelsius is an easy way to put a Flash front end on an excel spreadsheet. Wouldn’t that be good for an enterprise dashboard?
Comment by Excel User — November 13, 2007 @ 11:02 am
Excel dashboards are what I like. Microsoft Excel 2007 is a leap beyond what we see here. How about updating these dashboards to take advantage of the new dashboard features in Excel 2007? There is nice conditional formatting and dashboard indicators. Excel Dashboards.!
Comment by Italia Dashboard Excel — November 22, 2007 @ 12:27 am
What is the password for the protect file for itlalin excel dasboard?
Mel
Comment by mel — December 26, 2007 @ 1:10 pm
Access has the capability for the same dashboards as Excel. Are there Access examples that users will share?
Thx.
Comment by David — January 12, 2008 @ 11:15 pm
Now there’s a tool that combines Access and Excel… It’s pretty cool… worth a gander…
http://www.sisense.com
Comment by Elad — February 26, 2008 @ 6:59 pm