baal32 (4/4/2014)
When we say Excel are we talking about end users actually opening up Excel to view the dashboards or do you mean as an authoring tool? Our end users (executives and managers) absolutely will not open a client application (other than a browser) to view dashboards and reports...I'll check out powerview - thanks
When used on the desktop, Excel is usually about pivot tables and graphs. The typical users are analysts and power users. The advantage of Excel is that everyone is familiar with it. You can also use it on SharePoint as Excel services (which is in the browser), there you can use it for solely displaying purposes.
Viewing SSRS reports and dashboards is also through the browser.
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