I was reading my boss’s blog post yesterday about the CNN Money charts that include a red or green stripe to indicate if the market has gone up or down over each monthly period. I wanted to recreate the graph, but knew Silverlight would be a time-consuming process, and would require quite a bit...
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Thu, Jul 29 2010
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I don’t know about you, but all the so called “DASHBOARD” solutions I have been seeing the last several years are really not well designed. What happened to the creative minded people? We have been very busy working on a new retail business intelligence portal leveraging a lot of different...
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Thu, May 6 2010
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One of my business intelligence development managers came in the office to do a walk through of his project. We are embracing Excel Services quite heavily now and he showed me an example within our Extended Outlook product. The below report is showing country comparisons side...
One thing I really like about using Excel for my business intelligence solution is the ability to create some really good looking charts (author opinion). We are all guilty of just cranking out reports using the default settings as we are just trying to get the job done, but if you spend...
I’m pretty excited to be traveling to New York this week to present at the Microsoft offices to several media and entertainment companies. We are going to be co-presenting with Microsoft on “Personalized Business Intelligence†and showing many of the recent products we have developed over...
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Thu, Oct 8 2009
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Found this great blog on UI/UX and they have a pretty neat example using Excel and a function for rept and drawing bars. Not sure why they didn’t use data bars in Excel 2007 but it is a neat example of using functions. http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/lightweight-data-exploration-in-excel...