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Does anyone one have any experience with or comments on 3rd party software to
create Dashboards? Has anyone used Crystal Xcelsius? IF so any comments good or bad would be appreciated. |
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Since your post showed up on the Excel Charting forum, let me give you some Excel related information. Charley Kyd at ExcelUser.Com has an excellent, 150 page e-book that shows you exactly how to make effective dashboards in Excel. The e-book covers everything that I have needed to make dashboards, including setting up data sets, control sheets, color, chart formatting, and the use of Excel's camera tool. For $25, it is your best first stop. http://www.exceluser.com/dash/startdash.htm As for Xcelsius, I suggest the DataPigTechnologies site. http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/index.htm Mike Alexander has a series of Xcelsius tutorials that should give you a good idea of what you can do it. ....Kelly "eplfan" wrote in message ... Does anyone one have any experience with or comments on 3rd party software to create Dashboards? Has anyone used Crystal Xcelsius? IF so any comments good or bad would be appreciated. |
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Kelly O'Day wrote: ...including setting up data sets, control sheets, color, chart formatting, and the use of Excel's camera tool. Hey Kelly, I just posted a question about using excel to create dashboard style reports. I'm using the camera tool to take snapshots of charts on different worksheets, and put them together on the first sheet to create the dashboard. I'm having terrible trouble with elements inside the charts resizing when I hit print preview. Any idea why this is happening? Do you use the camera tool for charts, or just tables? Very keen to hear from you. Thanks, Ant. |
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I've read Charley's book, and I've created Flash displays using Xcelsius.
If you want a straightforward set of easily updatable charts, Charley's book is a very good investment. He describes a top to bottom system that easily updates each month, and systematically shows lots of data in a single page. These dashboards are a great way to display data from a single point in time. You could get creative with dynamic ranges and worksheet controls (sliders, etc.) to enable what-if analyses in these workbooks, though Charley does not cover such embellishments. Xcelsius is better suited to fancy marketing-type displays. It incorporates many but not all of Excel's features, and unless you license the Enterprise version, it's basically independent of changing data. The effects are very fancy, but the design interface is less easy to manipulate than objects in an Office app, such as PowerPoint. An Xcelsius model can be embedded in a PowerPoint presentation, a PDF file, or a web page. These models are well suited to what if analyses; its controls activate the Flash animation according to the logic of the embedded Excel worksheet. - Jon ------- Jon Peltier, Microsoft Excel MVP Peltier Technical Services - Tutorials and Custom Solutions - http://PeltierTech.com/ 2006 Excel User Conference, 19-21 April, Atlantic City, NJ http://peltiertech.com/Excel/ExcelUserConf06.html _______ "Kelly O'Day" wrote in message ... eplfan Since your post showed up on the Excel Charting forum, let me give you some Excel related information. Charley Kyd at ExcelUser.Com has an excellent, 150 page e-book that shows you exactly how to make effective dashboards in Excel. The e-book covers everything that I have needed to make dashboards, including setting up data sets, control sheets, color, chart formatting, and the use of Excel's camera tool. For $25, it is your best first stop. http://www.exceluser.com/dash/startdash.htm As for Xcelsius, I suggest the DataPigTechnologies site. http://www.datapigtechnologies.com/index.htm Mike Alexander has a series of Xcelsius tutorials that should give you a good idea of what you can do it. ...Kelly "eplfan" wrote in message ... Does anyone one have any experience with or comments on 3rd party software to create Dashboards? Has anyone used Crystal Xcelsius? IF so any comments good or bad would be appreciated. |
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