Visual Insights Introduces ADVIZOR/2000
Visual Insights reveals ADVIZOR/2000, dubbing it the Shortest Distance Between Data and Discovery. Visual Insights' patented visual query and analysis software enables business decision-makers to understand their customers and make business decisions. Visual Insights is a business venture of Lucent Technologies.
"The combination of the Microsoft BackOffice family with Microsoft Office 2000 enables businesses of all sizes to build sophisticated knowledge management solutions," said Andrew Hoover, Microsoft Group Industry Manager for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing." Visual query and analysis will enable more people to take advantage of this platform. ADVIZOR/2000 allows users to actually see trends and directly interrogate interesting areas of activity in their data just the way they think, iteratively and in real time."
ADVIZOR/2000 allows users to spot the nuances and subtle shifts in attitudes, which are critical to maintaining customer satisfaction, or corporate financial performance, which is critical for business success. Users are able to identify micro-trends, make detailed comparisons, and gain insights from their data.
"Whatever type of data you are dealing with, from e-commerce to financial analysis, ADVIZOR/2000 can help pick out the actionable insights immediately," said Michael Tatelman, Visual Insights Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. "Unlike many powerful decision support products, ADVIZOR/2000 was engineered specifically for people that use Microsoft Excel on a regular basis. It's easy."
The ability to simplify the display and to more easily understand complex multidimensional relationships is core to the power of ADVIZOR/2000. The application uses familiar visual metaphors, or perspectives, designed to maximize the users' ability to discover insights in their data. People can leverage the ubiquitous data access capabilities of Microsoft Excel to import and analyze data from almost any source.
ADVIZOR/2000 becomes an embedded option on Excel's Pivot Table menu. This capability extends directly to integrated OLAP Services in Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. ADVIZOR/2000 provides unique visual navigation of OLAP cubes, providing the user with the ability to drill up and down the dimensions, uncovering otherwise invisible relationships in the data.
ADVIZOR/2000 is immediately available via Visual Insights Web site at http://www.visualinsights.com/, and through authorized Microsoft Solution Providers. Suggested retail price of the product is $495.
Microsoft Office users will find Visual Insights ADVIZOR/2000 easy to install, access and begin using productively. The application installs as a standard Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT application, and is compatible with Microsoft Office 95, 97 and 2000 and Microsoft SQL Server 7.
On October 12, 1999 at 1 p.m. CST, Visual Insights broadcast a "Web cast" announcing the release of ADVIZOR/2000, hosted by Tatelman and Douglas Cogswell, President and Chief Executive Officer of Visual Insights.
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