Microsoft Office 2010 Customer Solution Brief

Business Solution Provider Ensures Rich User

“By making sure that customers can use Excel 2010 with our Monarch Pro desktop business intelligence software, we can move our product to the next level.” Gareth Horton, Senior Product Manager, Datawatch Corporation

Business Needs Datawatch Corporation delivers business intelligence (BI) solutions that help companies access and analyze information. More than 40,000 organizations rely on Datawatch BI products, such as Monarch Pro—a tool that mines data directly from existing reports generated by any system, including enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, or accounting systems, and turns it into actionable information presented in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 spreadsheets.

Because its customers work with Office Excel 2007, Datawatch needed to ensure that Monarch Pro would integrate well with Microsoft Excel 2010 when that upgrade became available. The company wanted to evaluate the new features and begin planning as early as possible how to incorporate the advancements into new versions of Monarch Pro.

Solution In 2009, Datawatch participated in a Microsoft Technology Adoption Program for Excel 2010 in order to test updated functionalities in Excel for compatibility with Monarch Pro. The company found that users who adopt Excel 2010 will be able to use the new data analysis and visualization features without corrupting the spreadsheets that they generate with Monarch Pro. Impressed by the updates, Datawatch intends to incorporate Excel 2010 features into the next release of Monarch Pro. These features include Slicers, which let users filter data in multiple layers, and Sparklines, which deliver small charts within spreadsheet cells to help users visualize data.

This case study is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY. Document published May 2010 Benefits Datawatch anticipates these benefits: Monarch Pro users can adopt Excel 2010 without compatibility issues. Datawatch can maintain and enhance the rich Monarch Pro user experience. Datawatch can further differentiate Monarch Pro by taking advantage of new analysis and visualization tools in Excel 2010.

This case study is for informational purposes only. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SUMMARY. Document published May 2010