Dashboards And Data Visualization

Crystal Reports Tutorial: Recently added to the Business Objects BI tool set, Crystal Xcelsius, is a stand-alone Windows application, designed to create interactive dashboards. Crystal Xcelsius uses a point-and-click interface that lets you create dashboards and visual business models from Crystal reports, personal spreadsheets, webservices or corporate data, and easily distribute them via PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, PDF, and the web (as flash SWF files).

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Recently added to the Business Objects BI tool set, Crystal Xcelsius, is a stand-alone Windows application, designed to create interactive dashboards. Crystal Xcelsius uses a point-and-click interface that lets you create dashboards and visual business models from Crystal reports, personal spreadsheets, webservices or corporate data, and easily distribute them via PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, PDF, and the web (as flash SWF files). For developers, the resulting dashboards can be integrated with webservices, passed runtime parameters via http or FS commands inside Flash, to provide high-fidelity dashboard presentation layers.