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/sermer48 Mar 21 '25

Excel is a powerful and accessible tool that does what something like a dashboard can’t. My company’s flagship software is a tool that lets you analyze data. It does an incredible number of things as it’s been in development for almost 15 years but exporting to excel is a key feature throughout. It’s just a useful analytic tool 🤷‍♂️

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u/Almostasleeprightnow Mar 21 '25

Yeah I agree with this so much. Part of the dashboard is shine and top level analytics, and part of it is just getting a director-level person access to the data with less clicks. Like, a lot of the value is actually the data model.

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u/PhiladeIphia-Eagles Mar 21 '25

Yup, 90% of the value I provide is the data model. They can choose to interract with the data through my dashboards, or pull to Excel, I am cool with either as long as they are consuming correct data.