Dashboard Reporting (Data Visualization)
Mastering Dashboard Reporting (Data Visual) in MS-Excel
An Excel Dashboard provides insight, analysis and alerts. They’re fully interactive and dynamic and can help with project management, customer service, sales or retail management, financial forecasting and much more.
Dashboard is a powerful tool for reporting. It helps in converting data into powerful and dynamic chart for visualization. It enhances data-driven decision making across the enterprise, drive profitability, and impact shareholder value. Excel dashboards and executive reports are powerful, fairly easy to design and a great way to improve your Excel and data visualization skills. Because of its flexibility, you can virtually design any dashboard in Excel exactly the way you imagined.
A business intelligence dashboard is a data visualization tool that displays the current status of metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) for an enterprise. Dashboards consolidate and arrange numbers, metrics and sometimes performance scorecards on a single screen. A business dashboard is an information management tool that is used to track KPIs, metrics, and other key data points relevant to a business, department, or specific process. Through the use of data visualizations, dashboards simplify complex data sets to provide users with at a glance awareness of current performance. It is a visual interface that provides at-a-glance views into key measures relevant to a particular objective or business process.
Dashboard has three main attributes:
(i) Dashboards are typically graphical in nature, providing visualizations that help focus attention on key trends, comparisons, and exceptions.
(ii) Dashboards often display only data that are relevant to the goal of the dashboard.
(iii) Because dashboards are designed with a specific purpose or goal, they inherently contain predefined conclusions that relieve the end user from performing his own analysis.
Key features:
Usually fits on one page
Displays key trends, comparisons and data graphically or in small tables
Provides the reader with conclusions to their objective
Is often interactive allowing the user to filter data and switch views themselves
Employs best practices that enable the report to be updated quickly and easily (often at the click of just one button)
What to learn in the training…
* Flow Chart; Time line chart, Gantt chart: this is used mainly in project management for task schedule. It is very useful for benchmarking and performance evaluation in term of cost, time schedulling.
* Combo-Box Chart, option box, list box chart: Powerful charts used for reporting in different scenario. It is useful for comparism of different variables across years.
* Waterfall Chart; Cash flow Chart: Powerful chart for reporting adjustments in revenue and cost. It shows the visualization of revenue-cost movements.
* Aging Analysis Dashboard.- This is internal control mechanism useful in analyzing debtors/creditors and when invoices will fall due. Others are side by side comparism chart, Pareto chart, symbol chart among others.
* Stunning Sales, Economic and Financial Projection Analytics Dashboard. With the uses of Pivot table embedded with slicer and timeline, the participants shall be walked through how to create a stunning specific and dynamic reporting dashboard.
* Linking Excel dynamic chart with Power-point for reporting and presentation. This is very useful especially for those who report often time with PowerPoint. Excel dashboard can be linked with PowerPoint and each time the chart changes, it will reflect in the PowerPoint presentation. highly dynamic….
Duration: Two (2) days Fee: N110,000
For Whom: Data Analyst, financial/sales and data oriented firms