Who are the Competitors to Xcelsius?

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Off late many people asked me this question, so researched a little. There are a number of competitors to Xcelsius. At the high end there is the excellent Spotfire Decision Site, as well as SAS Insight. For those looking for a less expensive system, Hyperion’s Visual Explorer and Cognos’ PowerPlay come to mind. But none of these has the same feature set and price performance as Xcelsius:

• Xcelsius Standard – $195 for development capabilities with Flash and PowerPoint output
• Xcelsius Professional – $495 adds more components, PDF output and full developers API
• Xcelsius Workgroup – $4,999 plus 25 user licenses adds Web Services and XML connections