Visualization company ‘ezViz’ has just announced a bair of new BI products called ezViz RealTime and ezViz Office. Working with input data from Excel spreadsheets, they are designed to provide easy visual interactive and analysis tools to users directly within Excel’s familiar environment.
Brian O’Keefe, President of ezViz, stated, ” ezViz was created to fill a void in the BI market by connecting users to their data and by removing typical BI barriers to entry – high costs, steep learning curves and IT reliance. With ezViz, users can buy, download, install and analyze data in minutes. Implementing ezViz software doesn’t require IT or procurement involvement and data does not need to be ‘prepped’ by power users or SQL experts beforehand.
As far as BI software goes, this is probably the most reasonably priced I’ve seen, with prices from $79 – $149 for a single license, with a free trial. Although, the name does make me chuckle.
Read the full announcement after the break, and check out their website.
Boston, MA April 21, 2010 – ezViz, an innovative data visualization company, announces the launch of its desktop software, ezViz RealTime and ezViz Office. The new solutions provide business users with an easy, hassle free and self sufficient way to analyze data and improve the decision making process.
The ezViz offering provides an unparalleled approach to business intelligence that is not currently available in the industry. ezViz integrates with Excel® and other common ‘day to day’ applications so users are finally connected to their key business data and tools. It is affordable, yet robust software for all business users that need to analyze and report on spreadsheet data. Excel® is the most pervasive database on the planet, with an estimated 400 – 500 million active users. ezViz allows Excel® users to easily visualize, interact, monitor and capture graphical images of the vast amounts of real-time or static data stored in spreadsheets. The trend to store data in spreadsheets is growing rapidly as businesses pour into SaaS (Software as a Service) applications. An essential feature of SaaS is the ability to web-access then save consumable snapshots of relevant data to Excel® files or csv files. ezViz is an affordable and robust tool for business users who need to analyze and report on this spreadsheet data.
Brian O’Keefe, President of ezViz, stated, ” ezViz was created to fill a void in the BI market by connecting users to their data and by removing typical BI barriers to entry – high costs, steep learning curves and IT reliance. With ezViz, users can buy, download, install and analyze data in minutes. Implementing ezViz software doesn’t require IT or procurement involvement and data does not need to be ‘prepped’ by power users or SQL experts beforehand. These simple, yet, unique aspects of ezViz will lead to exceptional user adoption rates especially when compared to paltry adoption rates (<10%) of traditional BI products. ezViz products are easy to use, easy to install, easy to connect to data and easy to integrate with other applications. “
