BizScape Version 1.1 To Begin
Shipping
Toolset
includes full Excel integration and new visualization features
May 17, 2004, Waltham, MA. VoxVue Corporation,
a leading provider of data-visualization tools for executive decision
makers, announced today that it has begun shipping version 1.1 of
its flagship product, BizScape. Among the enhancements in the new
version is a complete and seamless integration with Microsoft Excel.
The new release represents a significant step toward making the
software an easy, natural complement to traditional desktop productivity
tools as well as a visual front end to more complex business-intelligence
solutions.
“There are millions of executives around the globe crunching
numbers with Excel,” VoxVue CEO John Morey explained. “It’s
such a powerful, ubiquitous tool that it’s become an essential
part of every executive’s arsenal. The problem comes when
decision makers need to chart an enterprise’s future course
or get a handle on lots of disparate data. Excel was never meant
to be a collaborative tool in the sense of combining or blending
worksheets. And while power users can embed powerful algorithms
into Excel to perform ‘what-if’ scenarios, it’s
not easy for a roomful of people to really understand just what
they’re looking at when they see the resulting numbers. What
we call the ‘last mile’ in business intelligence is
finding an effective way to deliver all that precious intelligence
to the decision makers who need it.”
“That’s where BizScape comes
in,” continued Morey. “BizScape lets you take advantage
of the desktop tools you already use, combine and blend that data
in whatever way makes the most sense to you and depict it graphically
in 3D models so that it’s easy to understand. Good decisions
can only happen if the decision makers have all the information
they need in front of them. The newest version of BizScape lets
executives link to their existing Excel spreadsheets and display
the knowledge in them graphically. Our software contains data-rich
graphics that remain linked to the underlying information that
drives their appearance. That allows working groups to model operational
or strategic direction either by dragging and dropping the graphics,
in which case new calculations will take place automatically,
or by changing the underlying data, in which case the BizScape
model will automatically reflect the modifications graphically.”
“We’ve worked very
hard to develop BizScape’s ability to present complex data
in an intuitive, graphical format. Enterprises have tremendous
amounts of data, but can’t solve real-world problems without
an easy way to get access to it. We believe that BizScape provides
that access in a powerful and elegant way,” said Morey.
“The best part is that BizScape isn’t only an extension
of typical Microsoft Office tools, but BizScape can also link
to much more complex data, like OLAP cubes or the information
and analytics collected and generated by enterprise business intelligence
solutions.”
In addition to complete Excel integration,
BizScape version 1.1 contains many new enhancements to aid in
the visualization of complex data. Stated Morey, “We’ve
created a desktop tool that’s easy to learn but that can
depict vast amounts of information graphically so that executive
teams can fully understand the issues before them and make good
decisions.”
About VoxVue Corporation
Founded in early 2002 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts,
our innovative approach to improving business modeling and strategy
development through visual modeling software is winning acclaim
from strategy practitioners within the Global 10K and at leading
strategy consultancies worldwide. VoxVue has world-class domain
expertise in visualization, analytics and data integration. The
talented individuals at VoxVue form a unique team with deep experience
in developing and delivering creative software solutions to business
users and in leading strategy, operations, finance and business-development
initiatives for global 10K companies.
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