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Sales Gap Analysis: Tracking Sales Versus Target
Are you on track to meet your sales goal? How many more opportunities do you need to add to the pipeline to meet your goal? A sales gap analysis with this simple cascade chart helps answer these...
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Charting Sales Close Rate with a Bar-Mekko
One way to increase sales revenue is to increase the percentage of opportunities in the pipeline that you close. You can measure close rate by dividing opportunities won by opportunities won and lost...
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Last Week’s Sales Activity in 3 Marimekko Charts
I track three types of sales activity–new opportunities, opportunities won and opportunities lost. I make a separate Marimekko chart for each. The first chart contains new opportunities by product...
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Automating Your Charts with the Mekko Graphics API
Several of our customers have asked us for a way to generate Mekko Graphics charts programmatically. They want to set some parameters (e.g., region, product line and time period) on a web page or form...
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Mapping the Financial Data Analysis Market in a Marimekko Chart
Here is a great example of using a Marimekko chart to map a market. Burton-Taylor produces a report on the Market Data/Analysis Spend in 2013. Here’s a sample chart: The chart gives you a great...
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Preview of the New Mekko Graphics
We’re excited about the launch of the next version of Mekko Graphics. We’re in the final phases of testing. It should be released in the next few weeks. Here are some key features: Improved...
View ArticleVisit us at the MIT Sloan Private Equity Symposium
Mekko Graphics is a sponsor of the MIT Sloan Private Equity Symposium on April 5th in Cambridge. The event should be extremely informative–Gary Loveman, the CEO at Harrah’s and a former HBS professor...
View ArticleMekko Graphics 6.5.0.1850 Release Notes
Overview – This release introduces several new features and ensures it is compatible with the latest in MS Platform and Office technologies. New Capabilities Double click instead of one click to...
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Introducing Our Latest Version!
I’m happy to announce that the latest version of Mekko Graphics is available for download on our web site. In 2011, we committed to delivering two major versions of Mekko Graphics each year. This is...
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Illustrating MCAS results in Mekko Graphics charts
I had the opportunity this week to demonstrate how Mekko Graphics could meet the data analysis needs of today’s educators, who find themselves deluged with information from skills assessments,...
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Our API Showcase Now Includes an Interactive Market Map
We recently added an API sample application that generates a Market Map of Revenue by Region and Industry from data stored in an enterprise database. The Mekko Graphics API allows users to interact...
View ArticleMekko Graphics 6.5.1.1852 Release Notes
Overview – This release is a minor update to Mekko Graphics 6.5 New Capabilities Added a link to Mekko Graphics online help, in addition to the built-in help Improved label sizing for bubble charts...
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Adding Charts to a Table to Make Your Numbers Pop
Tables are great for comparing companies or divisions along a set of dimensions. Sometimes you want to highlight significant quantitative differences in the table. Instead of just putting the numbers...
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Drilling Down with a Stacked Bar Chart
You often want to drill down to show the detail in a specific chart segment. Here’s an example from McKinsey that uses horizontal stacked bar charts as a drill down for a simple stacked bar: The...
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New! Downloadable Custom Palettes
Our latest version of Mekko Graphics now gives you the ability to have multiple custom palettes for your charts. Here you will find palettes that we have created to make it easy for you to download and...
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Using Different Types of Palettes
Our latest version of Mekko Graphics now gives you the ability to have multiple custom palettes for your charts. Here you will find palettes that we have created to make it easy for you to download and...
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Using Color in your Charts
Our latest version of Mekko Graphics now gives you the ability to have multiple custom palettes for your charts. Here you will find palettes that we have created to make it easy for you to download and...
View ArticleMekko Graphics 6.5.3.1860 Release Notes
Overview – This release is a minor update to Mekko Graphics 6.5 New Capabilities A new Slide Layout created: Two charts Top/Bottom Installation changes were made to support installation using a...
View ArticleMekko Graphics for Marketing Professionals
I’ve spoken with a couple of market researchers over the past week and I demoed Mekko Graphics to them. They pushed me to think about which Mekko Graphics features and chart types would be most useful...
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Federal Budget Growth in a Bar-Mekko Chart
A Mekko Graphics customer sent me a presentation on the Australian government budget. It charted budget growth versus budget size by spending category in a bar-mekko chart. I decided to try and...
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