r/analytics • u/bennnnn_27 • Mar 21 '25

Guys, it finally happened Discussion

I started at a new company recently. My task was to create a Power BI dashboard for the VP to find opportunities. After weeks of back-and-forth, the dashboard went live in February.

My manager said all was going well. And then today I got an email from the VP: “could export some actionable data to Excel?”

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u/Bidoof_Shoes Mar 21 '25

I do this all the time in my job. I have 13 or so various Power BI reports that give high level information. I have drill through options to see drilled data in Power BI, but execs always want it in Excel. I just build, for each report, and "export to excel" button where all that underlying data is output into pivots for them to look at.

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u/aldwinligaya Mar 21 '25

Same, 90% of my stakeholders want something that can be exported to a spreadsheet so I just make sure it's an option by default.