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Xcelsius Enterprise XE Raises The Bar With 'Forward-Looking' Dashboards; Sets a New Standard with Enterprise Dashboards That Let Executives Evaluate Future Business Scenarios.


SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. , Calif. -- Infommersion, the industry leader in data visualization See information visualization.  software, has launched Xcelsius Enterprise XE, an entirely new line of products designed to give companies rapid development and deployment of corporate dashboards connected to enterprise data or business intelligence systems. Enterprise XE sets a new standard by going beyond traditional business dashboards, which focus on historical data, to forward-looking dashboards that help executives identify critical data relationships, analyze what-if scenarios and peer into their company's possible future performance.

With Xcelsius Enterprise XE's Visual Modeling(TM) capability, decision-makers use visual sliders sliders

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 and dials on the screen to alter underlying assumptions, and immediately see the impact on projected performance indicators directly on the dashboard - dramatically shortening their time-to-decision.

Additionally, Infommersion products are the first to offer Dynamic Documents(TM), a one-click, integration of 'live', interactive dashboards and scorecards into PowerPoint slides, PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format.  documents, the Web and corporate intranets - and point-and-click connectivity to enterprise XML-compliant databases and data exposed as SOAP-based Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. .

"Companies are challenged with making business documents and information actionable for users to make decisions and collaborate," said Mark Smith, SVP SVP S'il Vous PlaƮt (French: Please)
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 Research and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of Ventana Research. "Infommersion has released Xcelsius Enterprise XE which makes existing static business critical documents into live reports and rich presentations for improved productivity and effectiveness."

An ideal complement to companies' business intelligence (BI), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer.  and CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization.  systems, Enterprise XE transforms complex BI reports into easy-to-understand, animated charts that allow users to update key performance indicators Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are financial and non-financial metrics used to quantify objectives to reflect strategic performance of an organization. KPIs are used in Business Intelligence to assess the present state of the business and to prescribe a course of action.  instantaneously.

"Xcelsius Enterprise XE provided a flexible and robust dashboard solution that was easily created in-house and deployed throughout the company," said Rotimi Ajao, technical lead, Dashboard Project Team at Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd. "Our interactive dashboard reporting has changed the way we do business."

Additional key benefits provided by Xcelsius Enterprise XE include the following:

--Stunning aesthetics: custom graphics and animation provide compelling, visually appealing corporate dashboards on Web sites, intranets, portals or any environment supporting Flash

--Advanced functionality: state-of-the-art graphic selectors, charts and connectivity options provide real-time interactivity, such as incorporating ticker symbols that deliver up-to-date, live financial values

--Rapid deployment: intuitive user interface combined with point-and-click and connectivity enables the development and deployment of advanced dashboards in days versus months

--Low development cost: template-based architecture eliminates costly systems engineering required by traditional enterprise dashboards and scorecards

"With the forward-looking capabilities provided by Xcelsius Enterprise XE-built dashboards, executives are better equipped to address the critical decisions that companies face on a daily basis," said Santiago Becerra, CEO and co-founder of Infommersion. "Our software ultimately arms businesses with real-time insight into data to make faster, smarter decisions. Enterprise XE will become the de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually.

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 corporate dashboard tool used by companies across the globe."

Xcelsius Enterprise XE is available by calling the Xcelsius sales team, by download from Infommersion's Web site or through authorized resellers. The cost for the Enterprise XE Suite, which includes Enterprise XE Developer and a 20-viewer Connected Presentation Access License (CPAL CPAL Canadian Pacific Air Lines ), is $2,994. An additional 20-viewer CPAL is $1,995 and a 100-viewer CPAL pack costs $8,995. Infommersion also offers Enterprise XE Processor CPAL, priced at $9,995, which enables deployment to an unlimited number of viewers on the processor that hosts the dashboards and presentations.

System requirements To be used efficiently, all computer software needs certain hardware components or other software resources to be present on a computer system. These pre-requisites are known as (computer) system requirements and are often used as a guideline as opposed to an absolute rule.  include a PC with Pentium 3 equivalent processor with 128 MB of RAM (recommended), Microsoft Windows See Windows.

(operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then.
 2000 or XP and Microsoft Office 2000, Office XP or Office 2003. Enterprise XE software is a development environment which allows the creation of applications that connect to external data sources. Deployment of these connected applications requires Xcelsius Enterprise XE licensing to support an end-user community.

For a demonstration of an Xcelsius Enterprise XE dashboard, please visit www.xcelsius.com

About Infommersion

Infommersion, Inc. is the industry leader in data visualization software for individuals and businesses. Infommersion's patented technology enables executives, analysts and educators to turn complex and confusing data into clear, engaging presentations and dashboards for the Web, PowerPoint and PDF documents.

Its breakthrough product, Xcelsius, is a point-and-click Windows application that converts data from corporate databases, SOAP-based Web services and Excel spreadsheets into visually stunning, interactive executive dashboards and scorecards, dynamic charts and graphs, visual calculators, budget models and more. Xcelsius software provides Visual Modeling(TM) for evaluating what-if scenarios and future company performance.

Founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Diego, CA, Infommersion combines management and development talent from industries including information technology, multimedia development, interactive entertainment and business intelligence. For more information, visit www.infommersion.com.
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