Bacon Bits: » Xcelsius http://datapigtechnologies.com/blog A DataPig Technologies Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:25:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Integrating Xcelsius with Excel and Access http://datapigtechnologies.com/blog/index.php/integrating-xcelsius-with-excel-and-access/ http://datapigtechnologies.com/blog/index.php/integrating-xcelsius-with-excel-and-access/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:07:51 +0000 datapig http://datapigtechnologies.com/blog/?p=1708 Being the complete nerd that I am, I work with lots of different technologies. But in the end, I always strive to make those technologies work with Excel. One of those is Xcelsius. Xcelsius is a dashboarding application that takes data and spices it up into slick looking flash presentations.

Those of you who have already been asked to create reporting in Xcelsius may have found it a bit difficult to use. No VBA, no easy way to get connections and no pivot tables.

Well for the upcoming Xcelsius Developer's Workshop, I've come up with a technique where you can embed Xcelsius dashboards into Excel and Access applications.

This allows you to get all the flashy benefits of Xcelsius, but still give users a familiar environment where they can use PivotTables, VBA, MSQuery, etc.

It's too complicated to show with pictures, so I cooked up this video.  Enjoy!


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