Kindle DX: A New Era
For Excel Reporting?

Amazon.com says their new Kindle DX is great for reading newspapers, textbooks, and other commercial publications. But the DX also could offer Excel users a huge advantage.

It's possible that the Kindle DX could transform the way that Excel users deliver dashboard reports, standard Excel reports, textual material, and many other types of management information.

New! Plug-N-Play Excel Dashboard
Reports Linked to an Excel Database

This is the most powerful Excel dashboard report we've ever offered. And you can show off your own data with it in a few hours.

Plug-N-Play Excel Dashboard Kit #2 includes 20 dashboard report workbooks all linked to an Excel database. Update your database and then print your reports. Choose from 20 new color schemes, or use your favorite color scheme from PNP #1.

PNP #2 also can automatically synchronize the Y axes of any charts you specify. It can auto-scale your Y-axis labels, displaying "Thousands", "Millions", etc., as appropriate. It let's you switch currencies easily, lets you change labels like "Billion" to "Thousand Million" quickly.

Follow the link to learn more about Plug-N-Play Excel Dashboard Kit #2.

Excel Users in Over Half the World
Use Dashboard Reports for Excel

Excel users in more than half the countries in the world use Kyd's dashboard reports for Excel. These include people in business, government, and non-profits, in both large and small organizations.

Users include people working in banks in at least 30 countries, more than 200 universities, the United Nations, the five largest account firms, hundreds of hospitals and other healthcare organizations, and each company that makes up the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

For more information about Excel dashboard users, including a disclaimer about these organizations, follow the link.

How to Create Cycle Plots in Excel
To Chart Seasonal Sales Data

This chart displays eleven years of seasonal data in new way. It's called a Cycle Plot.

Here, the chart shows the trend for all sales in each of the twelve months. The green horizontal line shows the average sales for each month.

We show you how to create Cycle Plots of your own data.

The First Dashboard
Used in Spreadsheets

This figure shows two graphs from the first spreadsheet dashboard report, created using Lotus 1-2-3 in 1984. Each line of the charts consists of text in cells. We offer more examples of this report and offer a brief description of how it was created.

Review Our Growing Collection
Of Excel Dashboard Reports

Many people -- accustomed to standard Excel reports -- doubt that Excel can generate great looking reports. These sample Excel dashboards might change your mind.

Pablum Dashboards

Is your company spending many thousands of dollars for business dashboards that serve up your performance measures like pablum?

There's an excellent chance that you are. We provide several examples for your consideration.

Learn to Show Business Data
That Readers Can Understand

Only a few books explain general reporting techniques that can help readers understand business data more easily. We examine several recent books that offer excellent advice about ways to present your business data more clearly.

Compare Metrics by Category
Using Excel Dot Plot Charts

Management reports often must compare measures of performance by some type of category. Excel dot plots provide an excellent way to display this information clearly. We explain how you can bring dot plots to your own reports.

Charts & Cash Flow

You can use Excel to create great-looking magazine-quality reports. But can dashboards improve your bottom line?

Small Charts

We use real data in Excel to explain the benefits of using small charts for reporting.

Down With Gauges!

Using dashboard gauges for reporting typically is a mistake. We explain why, and show how Excel charts provide a more effective solution.

Dash Gallery

Most Excel don't know the power Excel offers for making dashboards. Here's a gallery of dashboard examples.

Free Dashboard

We'll email you a dashboard report like this for just about any company on a US exchange.

Getting Started

Are you ready to give dashboard reports to your managers? Here's how to begin.

Why Dashboards?

Excel is an excellent tool for dashboard reporting. But why should your company use dashboards in the first place?

Sample Reports

Check here to see a growing list of charts, tables, and dashboard reports.