Live Data Visualization & Executive Dashboards
Xcelsius Engage Server: Business Intelligence Software
Sales volumes and turnover for this national media retailer can be viewed by county, city, genre and format in this dashboard.
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True Business Enabler
Business objects Xcelsius Engage Server and Flynet’s Web Service Generator together give you a true business enabler, an intelligent solution that provides the means for you to access real-time company data, and gain real-time insight.
Real-time Dashboard
The generated Web service delivers a real-time connection between the data source and any application that can consume it. You can easily access Flynet Web services from within Xcelsius and connect your dashboard directly to live company data. This easy access and connectivity ensures your models are always live with up-to-minute information at run time. The Flynet Web Service Generator also enables you to access and expose company data as a Web service without needing to write complex SQL codes.
Business Intelligence Tool
The speed of business today means that large volumes of data is hidden away in disparate databases, spreadsheets and locations, impossible for business users to access and tedious for IT to translate into intuitive visual presentations. This is a challenge that faces all decision-makers, from the analyst to the CEO. Xcelsius Engage Server changes all this, facilitating data transparency, offering the only solution that enables business users to access real-time company data from multiple company databases, create business dashboards and presentations, and share the results “live” via Microsoft Office, corporate portals, Crystal Reports® 2008, Adobe PDF, AIR, and the Web.
All of the usual benefits of Xcelsius are included, the ability to engage and persuade your audience with visually stunning, interactive business dashboards. But it’s the addition of the Flynet web service generator that makes the Engage Server a step change in the evolution of business management.
Xcelsius Engage Server Support:
Xcelsius Engage Server 2008 1 Year's Support & Maintenance - 22.00%
XCELSIUS ENGAGE SERVER: More demos
The environment agency publish detailed statistics for each county in the UK. These are ideally presented using dashboards, where measurements and trends can be accessed visually using a map.
Lime Records is an independent music shop, also with an online presence. Using what-if controls, the shop manager is able to allocate resources daily, based on this months performance, in order to meet set targets.
Xcelsius Engage Server: Features & Benefits
DESIGN
Point-and-click ease – Create dashboards connected to live company data in days instead of months with this intuitive interface, including pre-built components and data connectors.
Flexible design capabilities – Easily customize the look and feel of your dashboards to fit your corporate standards.
Built-in quick start guides – Start creating interactive dashboards right away by taking advantage of the built-in quick start guides and user samples.
Software development kit – Leverage Adobe Flex to create your own custom visualization components, themes, and data connectors for use with Xcelsius.
CONNECT
Live data connectivity – Connect to your company's XML-compliant databases and SOAP-based Web services ensuring up-to-minute information – anywhere, anytime.
Connectivity to Adobe LiveCycle Data Services – TCreate operational dashboards of your real-time transactional data sources and broadcast data to multiple dashboards in real time.
Connectivity to Microsoft Reporting Services – Create live business dashboards from any Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services report with point-and-click ease.
Flynet Web service generator – Make it easier than ever for you and your business users to create dashboards connected to live company data. Flynet Web service generator enables end users to access and expose company data from any ODBC data source, such as Microsoft Access and SQL Server, for consumption in Xcelsius models through an easy point-and-click interface.
Enable Business Users to take action
Visual modeling – Quickly evaluate multiple business scenarios by altering the underlying assumptions, and immediately see the impact on the results.
Drill-down charts and maps – Summarize rows of data in easy-to-understand charts and maps and provide report-level details with a click of a button.
Dynamic menus and selectors – Take advantage of a large selection of dynamic menus to display large amount of data clearly and concisely.
Stunning presentation – A comprehensive library of eye-catching visualization components allows you to deliver complex company data in easy-to-understand business dashboards.
Export to Adobe Acrobat 9 – Easily embed, resize, and move around your Xcelsius models inside PDF documents by taking advantage of the new flash content support features in Adobe Acrobat 9.
Export to Adobe AIR – Expand the reach and use of your business data by delivering it as part of easy-to-use desktop applications and widgets.
Optimize the ROI of Your IT Solutions
Improved Crystal Reports 2008 integration – Create interactive charts and what-if scenario models for your reports and easily bind them to your report data with a click of button – no manual coding required.
Platform independence – Export data with one click to Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Adobe PDF, Adobe Flash, and the Web.
Microsoft Office SharePoint integration kit – Provide your Microsoft Office SharePoint end users with interactive charts, graphs, and dashboards.
IBM WebSphere integration kit – Integrate Xcelsius dashboards and content into your IBM WebSphere Portal. Xcelsius allows you to easily turn Xcelsius dashboards into IBM WebSphere portlets without coding and enables the creation of complex dashboards that interact across portlets.
Xcelsius Engage Server
Licensing
Five concurrent access licences
Technical Details
Version: 2008
Data sources: Microsoft Excel XP/2003/2007, XML databases, SOAP-based Web services, Adobe LiveCycle Data Services Microsoft Reporting Services, and any OLEDB or ODBC compliant data-source
Data and portal integrations: Microsoft Office SharePoint, IBM WebSphere, and Crystal Reports 2008
Licensing model: Five concurrent access license
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Swedish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Korean
System Requirements
Processor: PC with 1.0 GHz processor
Memory: 1GB RAM recommended
Disk space: 350 MB hard disk space
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista
Microsoft Office: 2003, Office XP, or Office 2007
.NET Framework 2.0: required
ASP.NET compatible web server: for example IIS or Apache