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Re:Panic Status Board is being discontinued by zubspace on Tuesday November 29, 2016 @04:06AM (#13061818)
In the windows world I would recommend Power BI [1].

Our nightly test server generates a lot of performance metrics which are stored in an excel file. We upload the excel to OneDrive and Power BI periodically refreshes a report dashboard which we display on a large screen within a browser.

The designer (Power BI Desktop) is really nice. The data aggregation and shaping is powerful. The only drawback we experienced is that the provided visualizations [2] are sometimes a bit limited, there are custom ones [3] with varying quality though.

You need Power BI Pro for this auto-sync scenario, but we got such a license for free through our msdn account.

[1]: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/

[2]: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-se...

[3]: https://app.powerbi.com/visuals

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Re:Panic Status Board is being discontinued by infinite8s on Thursday December 01, 2016 @06:09AM (#13078642)
What kind of additional chart types are you looking for? I'm building a power pivot like desktop tool and find people often would like more variety of chart types besides bar, line, scatters and heatmaps, but I can't determine if it's because of aesthetics or there is analyses they can't perform with standard charts.
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