Excel Services Scorecard as Windows Desktop Gadget
Early this year I stumbled across a very interesting Windows desktop gadget, that is capable of showing an Excel Services element on the Windows desktop. Here, element can be a certain named region, a pivot table or a chart in an Excel Services document. The technology for showing this element is the Excel Services REST API (REST stands for Representational State Transfer).
You can find the article about the desktop gadget as well as the download link for the gadget itself here. Installation and configuration of the gadget is pretty well explained on the linked site, so I can keep this short here.
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