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Discussion on: Fighting The Fallacy That Everyone Wants (And Needs) Self Service BI

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Waylon Walker

I can definitely relate to the entire If you build it... section especially โ€œjust dump everything you have into Excelโ€. I have seen teams spend years building up a dashboard that ended up being a place that folks went to click, download to excel. Then run decade old macros on the data. Make big changes to the UI and no one even notices. Change the order of one column and a whole host of alarms and questions of accuracy go off.