XP3 Presentation Builder The sure and quickest path to actionable insights means defining and implementing Best Practices. Using technology to automate Best Practices frees time to focus on those opportunities that directly contribute to top line sales and bottom line results. XP3 Presentation Builder is a charting, analysis, and presentation component fully integrated with Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Excel. XP3 Presentation Builder helps category managers and business analysts create best practice, turnkey presentations and reports that can be distributed and updated across the organization and customized in the field. Built on Standards XP3 Presentation Builder is completely integrated with PowerPoint and Excel so that you can take advantage of existing skills and knowledge in your organization. Personnel can analyze and present without ever leaving a familiar environment.

XP3 Presentation Builder also uses native Microsoft Office charting components. This means novices can quickly begin building charts and reports without learning new software. “Power users” can leverage their Excel skills to create more insightful charts and graphs.

Create and Organize Best Practices Analyses

Best practice slide libraries ensure that the best approach to analysis is executed throughout your organization. With XP3 Suite’s Best Practices libraries, you can create, organize, and deploy best practice data analyses, creating a center of excellence within your organization.

XP3 Presentation Builder comes with over 60 best practice slides covering market/retailer assessment, consumer assessment, scorecard, tactics, new product performance and Category Management and XP3 Turbo Templates,
24 expertly-designed analysis slides that work with any data, and can be easily customized for specific business issues.

Global and Local Data Selection Sets

XP3 lets the user define global sets of data that can be applied throughout the presentation to any or all charts and templates in a presentation.  Data selection sets can be created to reflect an organization’s data sources, the manner in which data in viewed (e.g. monthly, yearly) and business structures (account, market, products, brands, etc).

Simplify Charting and Reporting

The XP3 Chart Wizard simplifies the building of charts and reports by guiding business users through easy-to-follow steps to embed an Excel chart directly into PowerPoint. The XP3 Chart Wizard contains built-in calculations such as percent change, share, and index. You can also create your own custom calculations by taking advantage of Excel’s advanced features.

Automate Insights with Intelligent Text

Charts and tables often contain more information than people realize or can immediately discern. XP3 Presentation Builder’s intelligent text feature helps you create dynamic headlines and bullet points that call out the most important insights automatically. Intelligent text is linked to the data in charts or tables and is automatically updated each time data selections change.

On-the-fly Data Sourcing and Flexible Data Selection

Users can source data while in slide show mode to make quick comparison between account, periods, etc. Users can also sort and filter data selection by segmentation, hierarchy, alphabet or character match.

Disseminate XP3 Analyses

XP3 Suite’s packing and unpacking feature gives your organization the means to quickly and easily disseminate XP3 analyses across the enterprise. Presentations can be unpacked, viewed, and customized by anyone with XP3 Presentation Builder or XP3 Presentation Viewer on their computer. Or use XP3 Presentation Generator to automatically build account specific presentations by defining and executing report bursting scenarios.