The recent Microsoft Watch article on Office 12, Office 12 Details Begin to Trickle Out , gives some hints about a possible new charting product or capability in Office 12.
That strikes me as an inherently reasonable suggestion. Microsoft are putting a huge effort into the business intelligence side in SQL Server 2005. So, it would be odd if a similar effort was not being made in Office 12.
The Microsoft Watch article was coy about where the information came from, simply quoting "sources". But those sources, reliable or otherwise, do seem to indicate a "new charting application" which "could make use of Avalon".
One of the key business intelligence issues is how to summarise and communicate key pieces of information. Graphic summaries, aka charts, seem an eminently sensible, not to say predictable, way to go.
Posted by Andrew Watt at November 5, 2004 11:13 AM | TrackBack