Creating Dashboards With Xcelsius: Practical Guide !FULL!
Samantha Ferre
I need to create a dashboard based upon an excel table and I know excel has a feature for creating dashboards. I have seen tutorials on how to do it and have done my research, but in my case, the excel table on which the dashboard would be based is updated every 2 minutes by a python script. My question is, does the dashboard display automatically if a value in the table has modified, or does it need to be reopened, reloaded, etc..?
The one item I failed to mention around my recent experience was that the users also liked that every chart in the WebI report / dashboard rendered on the mobile app. This was an added bonus to them. I really think the paradigm of browser based dashboards is shifting to mobile analytics. To me the convenience factor of a mobile device is more practical and a page chocked full of charts is a bit busy sometimes. To your point, bridging the WebI to mobile gap might be of more importance. On the other hand, having a tool that can meet the demands of modern day KPIs, calculations and data volumes is important as well. WebI might be an old dog but I sense that it might be a better long term solution for analytics and mobility.
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