The Excel 2007 final look and feel - brace yourselves for plenty of do-it-yourself dashboards and scorecards
As mentioned on the MSDN Excel 2007 nee Excel 12 blog, the final UI screenshots of the new Excel were released. With a lot of built-in dashboard-friendly features, once Office 2007 comes out we are going to see an awful lot of business dashboards look like the following screenshots. With the incredible number of excel users out there and the easy ability to dashboard, we’ll see this sort of do-it-yourself analysis everywhere. The question will be, “Is sure looks nice, but what does it mean?” Information analysts and architects, brace yourselves!
Tags: Excel Dashboard, Excel Dashboards, Excel 2007 Design, Enterprise Dashboard


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