Business Objects, the world`s leading provider of business intelligence (BI) solutions, today announced CX Now!, a free lightweight version of Crystal Xcelsius, its data visualisation software for creating interactive presentations and business dashboards.
Designed for anyone who analyses data or gives presentations, CX Now! is an easy-to-use application that transforms ordinary Excel spreadsheets into dynamic charts, graphs, and interactive dashboards. Engaging presentations created with CX Now! can be exported to Microsoft Word and PowerPoint documents or to the Web, with point-and-click simplicity.
Within minutes, executives, analysts, instructors and students can use CX Now! to create interactive charts and graphs of trends and projections, audience-friendly presentations of complex data, and dynamic dashboards that display multiple business variables.
Users can create presentations with visual components such as `sliders`, which enable them to analyse `what-if` scenarios and predict how their decisions could impact performance. Moving a slider on the screen modifies the underlying spreadsheet data and the results are immediately displayed within the presentation.
"Business Objects understands that people need a way to present data that keeps their audiences engaged and motivated," said Santiago Becerra, vice-president of Crystal Xcelsius at Business Objects. "By making CX Now! readily available to business people and consumers, we empower everyone to use our award- winning data visualisation solution, which goes beyond the limits of other presentation software. This latest release continues Business Objects` proud tradition of providing customers with simplified business intelligence solutions."
CX Now! is generally available. For more information on Crystal Xcelsius and instructions on how to download CX Now! please visit www.CX-Now.com.
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Business Objects is the world`s leading business intelligence (BI) software company, with more than 39 000 customers worldwide, including over 80% of the Fortune 500. Business Objects helps organisations of all sizes create a trusted foundation for decision-making, gain better insight into their business, and optimise performance. The company`s innovative business intelligence suite, BusinessObjects XI, offers the BI industry`s most advanced and complete solution for performance management, planning, reporting, query and analysis, and enterprise information management. BusinessObjects XI includes the award-winning Crystal line of reporting and data visualisation software. Business Objects has also built the industry`s strongest and most diverse partner community, and offers consulting and education services to help customers effectively deploy their business intelligence projects.
Business Objects has dual headquarters in San Jose, California, and Paris, France. The company`s stock is traded on both the Nasdaq (BOBJ) and Euronext Paris (ISIN: FR0004026250 - BOB) stock exchanges. More information about Business Objects can be found at www.businessobjects.com.
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