The Data Visualistion Tool - Crystal Xcelsius
Crystal Xcelsius provides a state of the art answer to the need for an interactive visual analytics program. With Xcelsius you can easily transform your Excel spreadsheets into sophisticated data presentations with a set of unique visual components. These presentations can be shared with PowerPoint, Outlook, on the web and via PDF files and provide all with the ability to try out elaborate "what if" scenarios and calculate their company's future potential performance.
Crystal Xcelsius is fully integrated with the Business Objects performance management suite, allowing you to add value to the rich data visualization and analysis features of BusinessObjects Dashboard Manager. Using these applications you can create real time links to any corporate data sources and take advantage of the power of BusinessObjects XI security.
Stunning Visualisation Techniques
See your business performance data like never before through a range of interactive visual models with charts, drop-down menus, and sliders that clearly present complex business data. The visualisation technique that Crystal Xcelsius provides is truly stunning. Business users being quickly able to create professional-looking models with pre-built components, skins, maps and charts. The simple-to-use interface gives you an easy way to interact with data and test out future business scenarios with just a few clicks of a mouse.
Live Data Connectivity
As your data is connected to live data sources, it is always as up to date as possible. BusinessObjects Web Services allows even greater flexibility. Allowing demonstrations of live information to be provided to multiple locations in real time.
Visualise Data Safely
Because Crystal Xcelsius is integrated with BusinessObjects XI , you can be assured that your data is secure. Best of all, Crystals Xcelsius maintains security no matter where the data models are viewed – from within Business Objects products, Microsoft PowerPoint, PDF's or Microsoft Outlook. This means you can share your valuable information with everyone but at the same time make sure they only see the data they’re authorised to view.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is the difference between data and information?
A: Data can mean a lot of things to people but we are all guilty of walking into meetings with spreadsheets of data that is really just numbers and doesn’t mean that much to people that haven’t written them. What we are looking at with information, is making it available in a format that is instantly readable and relevant to the individual person that is looking at that information. And the other side of it is that it might not be just numbers or numerical figures, it may be that information around the business; documents knowledge, and other information that we may want to look at and that’s business intelligence.
What is Data Integration?
Q: What is data integration is it the same as data warehousing?
A: OK, data integration is a separate area but often goes hand in hand with data warehousing. Data integration is about taking the data from different areas of your business and "pulling them together" to put them into a data warehouse in a new more useful format, or it might be doing something a little more sophisticated such as integrating your back end system so that your customer database talks to your sales database.
What is Enterprise Information Management?
Q: What is enterprise information management?
A: Enterprise information management is another vendor derived term that’s has been brought into the market to try and describe challenges that businesses are facing. Enterprise information management is about recognising there are many organisations that are struggling to try and manage their data. Whether there are large volumes of data or not they may have data in different areas or different types of data. EIM tries to address the different methods that can be used to control and manage and gain a business insight from that data. |
