Although in recent years topics such as data mining and business intelligence (BI) have gained in importance and new tools are being offered, Excel can not be dispensed with as reporting software in the company’s departments.

With the increasing use of Office 365, SharePoint and cloud storage like SkyDrive, this is likely to remain so in the future. Now, Excel users who use Chart-me XLS benefit from the new cloud technologies.

The advantages of MS Excel include today not only the enormous range of functions and the wide distribution of the software. Data and analyses can be generated and visualized quickly and without consultation with IT. If you believe in a wide variety of studies, departments such as controlling, production, logistics, sales and marketing use Excel as an operational and ad hoc reporting tool in over 90% of all cases.

The problem-free and trustworthy publication of generated reports is a core issue of reporting. Today’s decision-making processes in companies tend to be timely, in several places simultaneously available reports. Of course, reports from several users should be filled with different scenarios, data can be adapted and updated. In practice, it is often the case that different departments or locations do not necessarily have the same IT structure. Here, online and cloud solutions are particularly suitable as platforms.

SharePoint, Office 365 or OneDrive provide a very good connection for sharing and efficiently publishing Excel files or business charts and reports. This means that charts or dashboards created with Chart-me XLS can not be made available to specific users and user groups. Any MS Excel user can not only view, but also update and edit the data underlying the charts.

The only to-do:

Before you publish online, you should “ungroup” the charts generated with Chart-me XLS by a simple mouse click and save the file again.

As a Chart-me XLS user you profit in many ways from online and cloud solutions

No concessions in the visualization of data

  • The high quality and detail accuracy in the visualization is retained.
  • Standard report templates can be used across departments. This is a significant step towards uniform reporting.

Lower costs

  • Data is easy to retrieve both internally and externally; Especially in companies where not every department is working in the same location and therefore in the same IT structure, this is of great advantage
  • Subareas of the portal can be shared with external business partners, suppliers and customers. This can also speed up cooperation if necessary.

Increased security for your company data

  • Data is easy to retrieve both internally and externally; Especially in companies where not every department is working in the same location and therefore in the same IT structure, this is of great advantage
  • Subareas of the portal can be shared with external business partners, suppliers and customers. This can also speed up cooperation if necessary.

Without additional IT expenses and resources

  • Publishing reports created with Chart-me XLS using SharePoint or Office 356 is done without additional tools, without installing additional apps.
  • You do not need any training, IT resources or other expenses.
  • The display operates on both desktop computers and mobile devices, e.g. iPad.

 

If you are using Chart-me XLS and Office 365, SharePoint, or a cloud store like OneDrive, you can now begin to professionalize your business charts and reports. If only the Microsoft products are available so far, simply download the free 30-day trial version of Chart-me XLS. Simply install as Excel add-in and get started.

By the way,

HI-CHART®  Instant Reports provide you with templates for common reporting cases that you can easily adapt to MS Excel requirements. The Instant Reports are based on the visualization rules of SUCCESS@IBCS and are therefore ideally suited for the introduction of a uniform visualization concept.

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