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Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel

You're reading from   Building Interactive Dashboards in Microsoft 365 Excel Harness the new features and formulae in M365 Excel to create dynamic, automated dashboards

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803237299
Length 420 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Part 1 – Dashboards and Reports in Modern Excel FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Dashboards, Reports, and M365 Excel 3. Chapter 2: Common Dashboards in Lsarge Companies 4. Part 2 – Keeping Your Eyes on Automation
5. Chapter 3: The Importance of Connecting Directly to the Primary Data Sources 6. Chapter 4: Power Query: the Ultimate Data Transformation Tool 7. Chapter 5: PivotTable and Power Pivot 8. Chapter 6: Must-Know Legacy Excel Functions 9. Chapter 7: Dynamic Array Functions and Lambda Functions 10. Part 3 – Getting the Visualization Right
11. Chapter 8: Getting Comfortable with the 19 Excel Charts 12. Chapter 9: Non-Chart Visuals 13. Chapter 10: Setting Up the Dashboard's Data Model 14. Chapter 11: Perfecting the Dashboard 15. Chapter 12: Best Practices for Real-World Dashboard Building 16. Index 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Meeting modern business needs

Modern businesses are drowning in data as technology has made it both easy and cheap to gather data around every aspect of business operations. Even a company’s website can generate thousands of data points monthly, and this is data the business often does not do much to set up the collection of. Now imagine how much more data is being collected from the more intentionally set up accounting tool, customer relationship management tool, distribution management tool, sales management tool, vendor management, procurement tool, and HR management tool.

Increasingly, business managers are getting frustrated with fragmented reports that show activities but have no meaningful or actionable insights. What is now on every modern business manager’s lips to their subordinates is give me dashboards. It is no longer acceptable to just create hundreds of reports covering every single aspect of business operations. An analyst is now expected to build a...

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