Peter Vatistas

Centigon Solutions Inc. has recently launched a small collection of add-ins that leverages this SDK to provide rich functionality with point and click configuration. The most interesting is a Xcelsius GMaps Plugin that allows you to drag and drop a Google map directly into a dashboard.

Another add-in called the Xcelsius Background Builder, enables someone with no graphic design skills to create a visually stunning graphical interface.

The following example illustrates the power of Xcelsius with Centigon Solutions components: Centigon Solutions Plugin Component Demo

About Xcelsius:

Xcelsius 2008 is a development environment for creating Adobe Flash-based dashboards and presentations using Excel and web services as a data source.

Xcelsius is capable of generating sleek, highly interactive visuals that can be deployed to a web browser or on the desktop in PDF or PPT. The beauty of Xcelsius is that the entire point and click development process empowers non technical users to jump in and build applications using Excel as their data source. For those who are more technically savvy, Xcelsius 2008 includes an SDK that enables Flex developers to integrate and extend new functionality within the development environment.

As an SEO I always try to stay up to date with techniques, tools and information. A few years ago I started my own Internet Marketing firm offering SEO, SEM, Analytics, Affiliate and Ad marketing services for medium to large companies and over the years I’ve compiled quite a list of SEO tools.

Within the last three weeks I’ve received over 150 requests for what tools and/or applications I use specifically for search engine optimization. Below you will find my list of tools, applications and services I use on a regular basis, I hope this information helps and keep the questions coming if they don’t! :)

Analytics:

Google Analytics
Omniture SiteCatalyst
Web CEO’s HitLense
StatsCounter

Keyword Research Tools:

WordTracker
Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool
Microsoft Ad Intelligence (Excel 2007 Plug in)
Web CEO
SEOBook Keyword Suggestion Tool
SEO for Firefox

Link Analysis Tools:

SEOElite
Web CEO
SEO for Firefox

Competitive Research Tools:

HitWise
Alexa
Compete
SpyFu
Quantcast
DomainTools

SERP Rank Research & Reporting:

Web CEO
SEOBook Rank Checker
Rank Tracker
Free Monitor for Google

SEO Web Browser Tools:

The Best SEO Plug-ins for Firefox

If you have suggestions on SEO tools please comment on this post, I’m always looking for tools to save me time and headaches!