Crystal Xcelsius $7,500 Workgroup Designer provides everything you need to create interactive business dashboards for your workgroup that connect to Excel spreadsheets or any external data source using web services, XML and other connectors. Your team can then share these business dashboards live within PowerPoint, Word, PDF, Outlook, and the web. Crystal Xcelsius Workgroup is the new standard in interactive business dashboards and the only software to give you these benefits: Interactive visual modeling. Crystal Xcelsius Workgroup has visual modeling, which enables you to develop forward-looking business dashboards and scorecards that let executives plan ahead. They will identify critical data relationships, probe elaborate what-if scenarios, and peer into your company s possible future performance. Using visual sliders and dials on the screen, decision-makers can alter underlying assumptions, and immediately see the impact on projected performance indicators directly on the dashboard dramatically shortening their time-to-decision. Easy distribution of business dashboards to your workgroup. Unlock the power of information to others on your team. With Crystal Xcelsius Workgroup you can easily distribute live dashboards and visual business models in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and PDF so users have easy access to live data to gain deeper insight. Moreover, you can provide your models as visual dashboards, scorecards, calculators and dynamic productivity tools over the web, intranets, or SharePoint portals-any environment that supports Macromedia Flash. Business Dashboards connected to personal or corporate data. Crystal Xcelsius Workgroup lets you create interactive business dashboards from personal or corporate data with point-and-click ease. Flexible data access through SOAP-based web service, XML and other connectors means your visual business dashboards are live-with up-to-the-minute information. Best of all, Crystal Xcelsius Workgroup is designed with the end user in mind. Rapid development and deployment is achieved with a template-driven architecture and Excel-based foundation so you can serve your own needs for delivering interactive dashboards and scorecards, quickly. Crystal Xcelsius Workgroup Designer is a single-user desktop application that lets business users or IT developers create leading-edge corporate dashboards. It allows you to quickly develop custom dashboards in an easy and intuitive environment. Designer also gives you a point-and-click interface to connect your dashboards to any data source using web services or XML. You can have multiple data sources refreshing your dashboard, and you can tailor the frequency of data refresh to suit your needs.