In the windows world I would recommend Power BI [1].
Our nightly test server generates a lot of performance metrics which are stored in an excel file. We upload the excel to OneDrive and Power BI periodically refreshes a report dashboard which we display on a large screen within a browser.
The designer (Power BI Desktop) is really nice. The data aggregation and shaping is powerful. The only drawback we experienced is that the provided visualizations [2] are sometimes a bit limited, there are custom ones [3] with varying quality though.
You need Power BI Pro for this auto-sync scenario, but we got such a license for free through our msdn account.
What kind of additional chart types are you looking for? I'm building a power pivot like desktop tool and find people often would like more variety of chart types besides bar, line, scatters and heatmaps, but I can't determine if it's because of aesthetics or there is analyses they can't perform with standard charts.
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In the windows world I would recommend Power BI [1].
Our nightly test server generates a lot of performance metrics which are stored in an excel file. We upload the excel to OneDrive and Power BI periodically refreshes a report dashboard which we display on a large screen within a browser.
The designer (Power BI Desktop) is really nice. The data aggregation and shaping is powerful. The only drawback we experienced is that the provided visualizations [2] are sometimes a bit limited, there are custom ones [3] with varying quality though.
You need Power BI Pro for this auto-sync scenario, but we got such a license for free through our msdn account.
[1]: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/
[2]: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/powerbi-se...
[3]: https://app.powerbi.com/visuals
What kind of additional chart types are you looking for? I'm building a power pivot like desktop tool and find people often would like more variety of chart types besides bar, line, scatters and heatmaps, but I can't determine if it's because of aesthetics or there is analyses they can't perform with standard charts.