Excel to Web Intelligence

Hi,
I have an Excel sheet which contains the Resource Name,Month and Actual Effort.Now i want to link this Excel into WEBI and want to see the results in Dashboard. Kindly help me to do this.
Regards,
Syed

Hi Syed,
Place your Excel file in server and create a Web Intelligence report (Select source as Excel) on top of it. Now use this report as a source and create a dashboard using LIVE OFFICE or BI Web Services.
Find the below links for reference
SAP BusinessObjects Live Office - YouTube
BI Web Services (BIWS) Tutorial: 1 of 2 Web Intelligence - YouTube
http://everythingxcelsius.com/xcelsius-training/xcelsius-and-business-intelligence-web-services-biws/3642
Regards,
G Sujitha

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