Summary

In this chapter, we have covered the key foundational things to know as we progress into building modern dashboards. Just to reiterate, the major learning highlights from this chapter are as follows: we started with the difference between dashboards and reports. We then learned about why dashboards are important for modern businesses. We then learned about the definitive characteristics of dashboards. Next, we went through the different Excel versions and why Excel 365 and Excel 2021 are the recommended versions for building dashboards.

And that’s it for this chapter; in the next chapter, we will dive into the common dashboards required by most modern companies.