Introducing BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise

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Developing visual analytics for the business user is a fundamental part of any business intelligence (BI) solution. BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise helps decision-makers identify important drivers of success, probe elaborate “what if?” scenarios, and peer into their company’s possible future performance, today.

How it Works:

BusinessObjects Xcelsius Enterprise is a new extension of the Crystal Xcelsius technology, specifically designed to leverage the Business Objects platform, the industry’s most trusted business intelligence platform.

A Basic What-If Dashboard

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This was one of the simplest Dashboards i have built. It takes 15-20 minutes depending on your Excel Skills. This Dashboard was for a company who is in the Computer Hardware Business. The Horizontal Bar graph shows the Sales product wise. The sliding bars gives a flexibility to drag and give various values and do What-if Analysis. Click on the Dashboard Screenshot for an Interactive Flash Version. Try dragging the bars and you will see the bar Graph showing the Projected Sales for individual products. You can also see a Pie chart which gives you the Product Mix. Also a Dial which shows you the Overall Projected Sales.

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How Xcelsius Works?

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Crystal Xcelsius is an intuitive stand-alone Windows application, designed to create engaging, interactive Excel dashboards and business presentations from ordinary spreadsheets. It is tightly integrated with Microsoft Office products, and requires no programming.

A little History About Xcelsius

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Like many of us in the corporate world, Santiago Becerra, Sr. has first-hand experience with the dull data environments that leave many managers and key decision-makers ill-equipped to manage their businesses. In his various roles in the business world, he knows that the problem he constantly faces is the same problem that many organizations suffer from — that too much information is lost in the transition between data analysis and data presentation.

What is Crystal Xcelsius?

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Its the tool to build Interactive Business Dashboards. Xcelsius! Sounds familiar, Sounds like Excel (Microsoft). Yes. you need MS Excel to create Interactive Dasboards using Xcelsius. Im going to talk more about “The Excel Connection” in the subsequent Posts to come.

What’s a Dashboard?

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The first thing that comes to your mind when i say Dashboard is your Car. Its the control panel located under the windshield of an automobile. It contains instrumentation and controls pertaining to operation of the vehicle. You see all kinds of knobs, buttons, gauges etc.

“Wait a second, What has Crystal (Now a part of Business Objects, which develops enterprise software, specifically software that provides business intelligence (BI) to businesses) got to do with Car Dashboards, is Crystal into Automobile Business?”.