Useful Ideas About Business Reporting
With Kyd Dashboards for Excel

Keeping Your Job: Six Tips
For Excel Users in Business

Times are tough these days. Companies around the world are laying people off. But the good news is that Excel users have the power to take more control over their destinies than do many other people in business.

How to Link Your Excel Dashboard
Report to PivotTables & Data Tables

Your Excel dashboard reports can be live-linked to data in your data warehouse, to Access, or to any other data that you can explore with PivotTables. Here's how.

Which Offers More Business Insight?
Dashboards? Or Normal Excel Reports?

The purpose of any report is to give its readers the most useful information possible, in the shortest time possible. Which type of report best achieves this purpose?

When Should Large Companies Use "Real"
Dashboards And Excel Dashboard Reports?

Most large organizations already own "real" dashboard software. So why are so many of their Excel users buying Kyd dashboard reports for Excel?

The First Excel Dashboard Report

Excel dashboard reports have been around a lot longer than you might think. Here are four reports from those early years. While display techniques in Excel dashboards have changed some in the past 25 years, the most significant change has been "under the hood".

• 1986 -- The first spreadsheet dashboard report.

• 1990 -- The first Excel dashboard report.

• 1992 -- Excel dashboard report showing public financial data.

• 1993 -- Excel dashboard report that Tektronix used to demonstrate their printers.

Does This Reporting Strategy Make Sense to You?

Help-wanted ads like the one discussed here reveal a clear corporate strategy about business reporting. It's an information strategy that few companies can afford these days.