I worked a while back with a company called OSIsoft. They do great things in real time performance management: anything to do with visualizing time-series data from oil wells, energy transformers, turbines, and so on.
It was a blast working with OSIsoft as they put a specific business solution on top of the platform software that I focus on. In addition, I got to meet some great people -- smart, energetic and fun. One of them was Michael Saucier, then OSISoft's VP Marketing and Alliances.
Michael has moved on to a related business. He's now Founder and CEO of Transpara. He stops by once in a while to keep me up-to-date on progress and things have really moved along.
Transpara uses Excel 2007 to create KPI's like this:
KPI's can be composed from a number if data sources (including OSISoft's RtPM) and then viewed dynamically via smart phones, like these:

Transpara's Visual KPI is part of the Office 2007 Launch and the Transpara video is here.
Cool stuff, Michael.