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Some Excel BI myths debunked: #3 – limited dashboards 21 Aug 2013 | 01:41 pm
#3: Limited and difficult to Maintain Dashboards Third on our list of common criticisms of Excel focused BI, is the limitations of Excel Dashboards. “Excel dashboards are ugly, limited, and inflexib...
Some Excel BI myths debunked #2: Inflexible Charting 13 Aug 2013 | 03:48 pm
#2: Inflexible Charting Continuing our discussion of common criticisms of Excel focused BI, let’s take a look at charting. “Excel charts are static, inflexible and you need to start from scratch if ...
Some Excel BI myths debunked 8 Aug 2013 | 01:27 pm
“Excel: Great hammer, lousy screwdriver’” When evaluating BI tools, many of our customers are hit by marketing messages about the limitations and woes of Excel. One white paper we were pointed to is ...
Current and Previous month reporting made easy 18 Jul 2013 | 05:07 pm
We’ve all been there. Our shiny new dashboard or report pack is finished and ready to go meet its users. We’ve presented the key information clearly, we’ve followed all the data vis guidelines on eff...
Rolling Forecast reporting in Excel 27 Mar 2013 | 02:10 pm
In monthly reporting for the current year the most pertinent numbers for closed periods are the actuals, and for open or future months the forecast. In most cubes actual and forecast (or budget) are i...
XLCubed en Français, dans Lausanne! 28 Feb 2013 | 08:22 pm
XLCubed is now available in French, and we’re pleased to sponsor the Swiss BI Forum in Lausanne, Switzerland on Tuesday 12th March. We look forward to meeting with customers and attendees on the day. ...
Bandlines in XLCubed 25 Jan 2013 | 02:47 pm
In early January this year Stephen Few introduced the concept of Bandlines. He identified a useful extension to Sparklines, making use of shaded or coloured horizontal bands to provide more informatio...
Excel Pareto Charts the XLCubed way! 5 Dec 2012 | 09:30 pm
V7.2 of XLCubed is released soon and we thought we’d take the opportunity to run through one of the new features that you’ll be seeing, Pareto Charts. The Pareto Principle is often referred to as the ...
XLCubed as an alternative to ProClarity 12 Nov 2012 | 04:18 pm
With the launch of 7.1 of XLCubed Excel Edition we introduced the ability to import ProClarity Briefing Books – with support for ProClarity ending this year, now is a great time for us to show you how...
Creating rounded corners in Excel – revisited 24 Sep 2012 | 02:01 pm
Today we’re revisiting one of our more popular guides, Creating rounded corners in Excel Tables, and have updated it for v7.1. When Igor Asselbergs was contemplating the value of round corners in desi...
