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by viraptor
3953 days ago
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> Imagine what we could do just with a version of office where every bit of information was sourced live from a database, where instead of Power Point presentations of status you could throw together a dashboard and send it to everyone in the organization. The thing is... you can. Not a presentation / PP, but if you want to create a self-updating dashboard, you can do it in Excel. It's not going to be super easy, but you can do pretty much all of it by clicking. Here's excel with a sheet that comes from sql database. It's trivial to add another sheet with just graphs on it. https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/Connect-to-a-SQL-Se... But if you want to do a "dashboard proper", you can use the Power BI tool: https://support.powerbi.com/knowledgebase/articles/471664 (which looks super amazing by the way for an office product, is free, and I want to have a reason to actually use it...) It's strange that they didn't even mention those possibilities in the post. I see how they could try to improve a lot in those approaches however. |
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