Crystal Xcelsius Professional - (V. 4.5) - Complete Package - 1 User - CD - Win - English (74485C) Category: Software Suites

by Business Objects

Product Details

• Item Weight: 7.8 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• ASIN: B000FLF3NS
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #123,916 in Electronics (See Top 100 in Electronics)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 22, 2006

Product Description

Item #: 74485C. Crystal Xcelsius Professional is for those who want to take their data presentations and Excel dashboards to the next level. You receive all the features of Crystal Xcelsius Standard, plus key features like drilldown charts, one-click export to PDF, broad Excel function support and more. And, you have the ability to add-on future components, maps, skins and new functionality.If you want the leader in interactive visual analytic software - that evolves with your abilities - then Crystal Xcelsius Professional is the right choice for you.This product comes with User Guide.

Product Description
Crystal Xcelsius Professional - ( v. 4.5 ) - complete package
Category: Business applications
Subcategory: Business - databases / database tools
Version: 4.5
License Type: Complete package
License Qty: 1 user
License Pricing: Standard
Language(s): English
Platform: Windows
Distribution Media: CD-ROM
Package Type: Retail
OS Required: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP
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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of "Pop", May 27, 2007

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Gregory Hausmann (Kansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crystal Xcelsius Professional - (V. 4.5) - Complete Package - 1 User - CD - Win - English (74485C) Category: Software Suites (CD-ROM)

We ordered the software so we could add more "pop" and visual variety to our displays of information. The package meets all expectations in that area, and we can configure displays in new, creative ways now... The only difficulty we had was that the package is not intuitive to a new, unexperienced User -- so, we spent 2-3 weeks trying to navigate and learn how data is linked to Excel and how to build and format screens/displays. But, as I said, the package is a great one, with lots of flexibility!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great product, horrible support, October 30, 2008

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Alan Lewis (Carlsbad, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crystal Xcelsius Professional - (V. 4.5) - Complete Package - 1 User - CD - Win - English (74485C) Category: Software Suites (CD-ROM)

I bought this product and downloaded it direct for Business Objects, then paid big bucks for the back up disk. The back up disk comes without the key, so you have to keep that handy. As another reviewer noted, there is no backward compatibility. I purchased the product before SAP bought business objects. I had problems moving my license to a new computer even with the backup disk. Don't expect help or sympathy from SAP.

Oh. It's a great product. It helped me get promotions and a new job.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Sexy look, but lots of deficiencies, June 10, 2008

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David Andersen (Copenhagen) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Crystal Xcelsius Professional - (V. 4.5) - Complete Package - 1 User - CD - Win - English (74485C) Category: Software Suites (CD-ROM)

Xcelsius makes the most sexy graphs once can imagine, but after extensive use, I have discovered several problems, which really reduce productivity.

Backwards compatibility:
I saved a presentation using version 4. Then I upgraded to version 4.5 just to discover that I could not open the presentation in version 4.5! There were no work-arounds. I contacted customer service without any luck... I then attempted to downgrade to my last version, but the problem was that the link to download version 4 did not work anymore, so I was basically stuck having spend 10-15 sour hours recreating the presentation I had already created a long while ago.

Copy and paste
One cannot copy and paste between "presentations". This might seem like a small feature, but imagine that you have spent 50+ hours creating a presentation. Then another 50+ hours creating another presentation. There is then no way to integrate the two into eachother! You have to do all the drawing etc all over again!

Limited complexity of the presentations
Imagine the following scenario. You create a presentation, which is widely used in your company. Everyone loves it and everything is good. Then some senior management decides that they want to expand the presentation to include more data/history etc. This is agreed upon and you get the task. As you expand the presentation you run into heavier and heavier performance problems (meaning it takes more than 1 hour to preview a presentation). In the end it simply got stuck processing for more than 27 hours before I gave up, unable to fulfill the wish.