Zoho Reports: good free tool for building web dashboards

May 5, 2012 | article by Ken Thompson in Online Collaboration Tools (44), Visualization/Analytics (10)

It's a common problem - you have developed some very useful excel charts and dashboards and now you need to publish and share them on the web. There are lots of excel add-ins and add-ons (and I must have tried them all) - the problem is most will either be very expensive or disappoint you either in terms of their restrictions or how nicely they present your data.

Zoho Reports

A simple and effective solution which will tick most of the boxes is Zoho Reports from the Zoho family products which allows you to import excel sheets and databases, create charts and dashboards and export them at a single click to a hosted web page which can be password protected.

ZR starts at $35 per month but is totally free for up to 2 users, 5 reporting databases and 100,000 rows in your account.

For more info check out the ZR FAQ Page.

About Ken Thompson

Ken Thompson delivers keynote conference speeches, workshop facilitation and in-house consultancy in four key business areas:

Creating High Performing Teams in enterprises including Virtual and Mobile Teams (based on the Bioteams Book)
Establishing effective Collaborative Business Networks enabling companies to co-operate effectively in areas such as sales and product development (based on the book - The Networked Enterprise)
How to use the latest social media technologies including blogging and online communities to promote enterprises, brand, organisation or event
Development of graphical on-line interactive Business Dashboards and What-if Simulators for organisations to support Performance Improvement, Strategy Development and Executive Team Development.

Tags: analytics, dashboards, data visualisation, visualization, Zoho

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Bioteams Books Reviews

Self managed teams 101

March 15, 2006 | article by Ken Thompson in Book Reviews (37)

Grass Roots Management shows you how to grow initiative and responsibility in all your people. It might not appeal to purists, but using the narrative of a business based on a garden open to the public the author gives a very simple, accessible and readable account of 'self-managed teams'.

Buy it now from:
Amazon.Com
Amazon.Co.UK

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