The Dashboard Spy wrote about Animating Dashboard Charts with Flash on the Dashboards by Example blog. The examples in the Spy’s post were taken from our friends at Fusion Charts:

financial flash dashboard demo
sales flash dashboard demo
sales management dashboard
airline dashboard demo

As I discussed in my comment to the Spy’s post is that a little animation goes [...]

Stephen Few reviews the recent Business Objects release of Xcelsius Present in Xcelsius Present – Fast Track to Nowhere. Like the Xcelsius business intelligence application we’ve come to love, it’s full of flash and glitz, and a remarkable inability to convey information. I’ll leave Stephen to describe Xcelsius Present and the unintelligent BI templates that [...]

XL Cubed (parent company of BonaVista Systems, maker of the MicroCharts add-in for Excel) has shown some very effective dashboard report examples in a couple of recent posts.
In 2008 Excel Dashboard Competition Winners the winners of the 2008 Excel Dashboard Competition are announced:
1. Wade Stokes – International Bank Dashboard
Displaying many disparate Banking Key Performance Indicators, [...]

One of the most misunderstood terms in business today is “dashboard”. When many people hear the phrase “dashboard report”, they think of the dashboard of their car, or even the cockpit of an advanced fighter jet, with fuel gauges, speedometers, and other displays crammed into a tight space. These displays are effective in your car, [...]

No time for a full post today (busy busy!), but I wanted to point you to a well written article by my colleague and fellow Excel MVP Charley Kyd of ExcelUser.com, who explains how to Create Cycle Plots in Excel to Chart Seasonal Sales Data.
If you simply plot date-related data, you may notice cyclical patterns, [...]