subject: Combine All Your Data in One Place - 5 Benefits to Using a Dashboard Solution by:John W. Kyle [print this page] The best business decisions are made when you can look at the problem from every angle. You need all the data in one place, in a simple, intuitive format. That's why dashboard solutions make perfect business sense. Dashboard solutions pull essential information together about your business's performance in daily reports. Executive dashboards are highly visual reports that provide a snapshot of your company's key performance indicators (KPIs) in a user-friendly way. Dashboards combine charts, tables, gauges, and maps in a single, at-a-glance view to provide the crucial details you need to react quickly in any situation and make the best-informed business decision.
Dashboard software that uses Excel automation to generate high-impact executive dashboards is key to your company's business intelligence solution. Non-technical business professionals can quickly and easily create and manage executive dashboards using the same Excel technology they already know and love. These dashboard reports automatically extract data from databases and accounting and ERP systems and then format this information into graphically rich, succinct Excel reports with dashboard charts. These daily reports provide the same data in the same format across your enterprise, so that decision-makers throughout your company are on the same page.
Such reporting software leverages your existing investment in Excel and email, with no license cost per end user. Users only need Excelno plug-ins or other softwareand minimal training, saving your company time and money.
Five Excel dashboard software benefits for your company:
1. Unique information channel as a single point of truth: automated access to multiple data sources ensures that reports convey the most current and reliable information.
2. Pixel-perfect reporting: reports and dashboards are designed with corporate layouts and formats for online display and printing.
3. Customized content: data from a range of sources are compiled and targeted to various departments and specific individuals.
4. Reusable Excel report templates: users can develop standardized reports using your corporate layouts and formats.
5. Integration with Excel: easy-to-use query wizard and report designer provide advanced reporting and display via Excel.
About the author
John Kyle is the president of ApeSoft North America. Get a free live demo of ApeSoft's automated Excel reporting software and learn how you can get a cohesive dashboard view of your company.
