XWIS 3.0 + GMaps Plugin = instant maps for Xcelsius dashboards

July 15, 2011 - PRLog -- 6 weeks after announcing their own technology partnership, SAP partners, Antivia and Centigon Solutions, today confirmed that they have completed the integration between Antivia's XWIS and Centigon Solutions' GMaps Plugin. This integration dramatically reduces the time taken to create dashboards that include mapping components powered by corporate data within SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and Xcelsius.

Centigon Solutions is a leading SAP BusinessObjects partner and through its GMaps Plugin is recognized as the premier developer of Google Maps powered solutions for SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and Xcelsius.

Donald MacCormick, Chief Product and Marketing Officer of Antivia explained: "Maps provide a natural and intuitive way for business users to visualize geographic information within their dashboards to make effective decisions".

MacCormick continued: "However, getting corporate data into maps, particularly where you want to be able to drill down (e.g. from a state view to a city view) can be a time-consuming and fiddly process involving multiple database queries and many, many inter-connected Excel formulas. This is not a job for the faint-hearted. Setting up this type of dashboard requires high skill-levels, which often means buying in expensive third-party resources. The integration we've developed with Centigon Solutions massively reduces this complexity, meaning that any Xcelsius developer can now easily add rich, interactive maps to their dashboards with just a point and a click ... and with not a single Excel formula in sight".

In fact, the integration makes the process so straightforward that it is now possible to build a connected, interactive, map-based dashboard based on existing SAP BusinessObjects data in just 34 seconds (see the video: "build a GIS in 34 seconds flat" http://go.antivia.com/34secondGIS.html).

Ryan Goodman CEO of Centigon Solutions commented: "This is a great example of the SAP eco-system at work. Here, two existing SAP partners, who are both already delivering significant value to SAP customers around the world, have come together, to deliver even greater value to the Xcelsius community. If the SAP technology partner model is based on co-innovation, Antivia and Centigon Solutions have taken this to the next level, with our co-co-innovation."

The XWIS and GMaps Plugin integration is available with the latest version of XWIS: XWIS 3.0

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Antivia, an SAP Solutions Partner, develops the XWIS software platform, which provides the fastest, most cost-effective way to create, manage and deploy actionable dashboards with SAP Business Objects Dashboards and Xcelsius.

SAP customers worldwide trust XWIS to help them:

- Dramatically reduce dashboard development time and total cost of ownership
- Accelerate adoption and deployment of actionable dashboards
- Promote effective decision making through increased interactivity and greater accessibility.

XWIS has won numerous awards, including the SAP award for best integration with SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise.

Customers include: AmerisourceBergen Specialty Group, BMC Software, Bord Gais, Cochlear, Eli Lilly, Fifth Third Bank, Hewlett Packard, ING Direct, 20:20 Digital, Nissan-USA, Pratt & Whitney, Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, Swire Coca-Cola, Telenor.

Antivia is privately funded with offices in North America and Europe.