Advanced reporting - User and Partner conference 2013
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The document discusses how to create advanced Excel dashboards using REST APIs and IQY connectors to integrate external data. It explains that Excel is commonly used in companies and can be used to share data with stakeholders and format it in different ways. It then describes different types of Excel reports that can be created, from simple to advanced and KPI dashboards. It provides information on REST APIs and how IQY connectors allow Excel to retrieve dynamic data from web services. Finally, it gives an example of a dynamic Excel dashboard created using these techniques.
Advanced reporting - User and Partner conference 2013
- 2. Online Intelligence Solutions ADVANCED REPORTING REST-API & IQY Connector Integration in Excel
- 3. AGENDA Why Excel Dashboards ? Different Report possibilities REST-API IQY Connector Example in Excel ONLINE INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS © COPYRIGHT 2012
- 4. WHY EXCEL DASHBOARDS Excel is a ‘Standard’ in (a lot of) companies For user who are not confident with the WA Tool To share data for different stakeholders To intergrate external data To format data in different ways ONLINE INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS © COPYRIGHT 2012
- 5. DIFFERENT REPORT POSSIBILITIES Simple Excel Reports o Single Analysis o Few Information Advanced Excel Reports o Multiple Analysis o Control with Links/Drop-Downs/… KPI’s Dashboards o Segmented Data o Aggregated Informations ONLINE INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS © COPYRIGHT 2012
- 6. REST-API REST: Representational State Transfer REST-style architectures conventionally consist of clients and servers. Clients initiate requests to servers; servers process requests and return appropriate responses. ONLINE INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS © COPYRIGHT 2012
- 7. IQY CONNECTOR IQY files are web query files, and they contain specific settings needed by Excel to retrieve data from a specific web service A Web query file is a text file. Web query files can be created in any text editor, such as Notepad, and they are saved with the .iqy extension. ONLINE INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS © COPYRIGHT 2012
- 8. IQY CONNECTOR The main advantage is that Web Queries are DYNAMIC! ONLINE INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS © COPYRIGHT 2012
- 9. IQY CONNECTOR ONLINE INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS © COPYRIGHT 2012
- 10. EXAMPLE – DYNAMIC DASHBOARD ONLINE INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS © COPYRIGHT 2012
- 11. FRAGEN ONLINE INTELLIGENCE SOLUTIONS © COPYRIGHT 2012