Next Rev of Excel To Populate Dashboards and Scorecards

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    Microsoft said Office 12, the next version of Microsoft Office, will include capabilities in Excel that “will let users create real-time visual dashboards and scorecards directly from the data within their spreadsheets and then share that business intelligence in a central Microsoft Office SharePoint portal site or workspace,” according to this report in eWeek.

    The magazine said the next release is expected in “late 2006.”

    This “executive e-mail” from Bill Gates, posted on Microsoft.com, also describes a future vision of team collaboration:

    Team collaboration: Over the next decade, shared workspaces will become far more robust, with richer tools to automate workflow and connect all the people, data and resources it takes to get things done. They will capture live data and documents in ways that will benefit teams that work across the hall or around the globe. Meetings will be recorded with sophisticated cameras that can detect and focus on speakers around the room. Notes taken on a whiteboard will automatically be captured and emailed to participants, and attached to the video of the meeting. They will also serve as lasting repositories for institutional knowledge, so teams won't have to "reinvent the wheel" and work with limited knowledge of the company's past experience.

    Nothing mentioned about grappling with the time or language differences.