Comments on: Book Review: Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few

By: Steve Novoselac

Steve Novoselac — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:21:13 +0000

then, go around the executives :) Yeah, Excel 2007, or Performance Point/Sharepoint, Reporting Services with Report Builder, otherwise you need to buy some 3rd party system, etc. I don’t know, I like Excel 2007, I haven’t found much better.. there are add ons for it, to do sparklines and bulletcharts, etc. Couple Excel with Excel Services and you have your dashboards right there

By: David Stein

David Stein — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:02:57 +0000

What I’d like is some kind of interactive dashboarding option to work with MSSQL. I provide the basic query, and provide the user with buttons on a form and whatnot so they can update the dashboard objects in real time without any coding knowledge on their part.

Unfortunately, the executives won’t allow us to upgrade to Office 2007.

Any suggestions?

By: Steve Novoselac

Steve Novoselac — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:28:14 +0000

@David, on Xcelsius – no I haven’t, but I guess here they had it a few years ago, and WEB-I just kind of took its place or there was something with licensing or something..

By: David Stein

David Stein — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:24:57 +0000

I’m going to pick this book up as I have been looking for Dashboard info for quite awhile. When I’ve asked fellow SQL geeks about it, they don’t “get it.”

Mr. Novoselac, have you tried SAP’s Xcelsius product?

By: Amber

Amber — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 09:27:49 +0000

Could you be any more of a geek