The Xcelsius Engage Server software includes features that support the following capabilities:

• Design – Create engaging dashboards like a pro.
• Point-and-click ease – Create dashboards that are 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 customise 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 visualisation components, themes and data connectors for use with Xcelsius.
• Connect – Deliver up-to-the-second views of your business performance.
• Live data connectivity – Connect to your company's XML-compliant databases and SOAP-based Web services ensuring up-to-the-minute information – anywhere, anytime.
• Connectivity to Adobe LiveCycle Data Services – Create 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 that are 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.

Empower Business Users with Actionable Information

With Xcelsius Engage Server software, you can deliver:

• 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 – Summarise rows of data in easy-to-understand charts and maps and provide report-level details with the click of a button.
• Dynamic menus and selectors – Take advantage of a large selection of dynamic menus to display a large amount of data clearly and concisely.
• Stunning presentation – Deliver complex company data in easy-to-understand business dashboards via a comprehensive library of eye-catching visualisation components.
• 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.

Maximise the Value of Your IT Solutions

With Xcelsius Engage Server software, you can optimise your IT investments through:

• 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.