Breathe life into Excel

by Noah Parsons on November 1, 2006

Crystal Xcelsius has released a free version of their software that helps users create dynamic flash dashboards from excel data. This is a great tool to help turn boring financial presentations into interactive and engaging PowerPoint. You can even post your final creations to your web site.

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We’ve used the standard version of this product for several years now and find that it’s the fastest way to create visual data representations.

About Noah Parsons

Before joining Palo Alto Software, Noah Parsons was an early Internet marketing expert in the Silicon Valley. He joined Yahoo! in 1996 as one of its first 101 employees and become Producer of the Yahoo! Employment property as part of the Yahoo! Classifieds team before leaving to serve as Director of Production at Epinions.com. He is a graduate of Princeton University. Noah devotes most of his free time to his three young sons. In the winter you'll find him giving them lessons on the ski slopes, and in summer they're usually involved in a variety of outdoor pursuits. Noah is currently the COO at Palo Alto Software.