Reports include a matrix table format, similar to what a dynamic table does in Excel: you select a column field, a row field, a measure (record count, the sum of a field in all the records, etc.), and then each cell shows what that value is for its combination of row value and column value.
For example, a table showing the number of potentials classified by campaign and stage.
Can I have that in a dashboard? I can have it in a report, but creating a table-style dashboard panel from that report collapses the columns to a single total column.