Blue Pacific released Rich Chart Builder, a new desktop tool that creates Rich Media charts. Rich Chart Builder transforms data charts into enjoyable and captivating communication. Data charts don't have to be plain and austere, they can be interactive experiences with attractive visuals, animation and even voice explanations describing the important facts behind the numbers.

Rich Chart Builder includes the following features:

• Impressive Charts: Create stunning Rich Media charts that present data in an enjoyable and captivating experience. Includes sophisticated 3D and shaded chart styles.
  
• Interactivity: Create interactive charts with tooltips and drill-down links that can point to other charts and web documents, creating a truly interactive experience.
  
• Communication: Charts can contain an audio narration - an effective way of describing the events behind the values.
  
• Flash Rich Media: Publish the animated charts to Macromedia Flash format, viewable by over 98% of web users.
  
• Publish to PowerPoint: Impress audiences with compelling charts published to PowerPoint presentations. Also publish to image and PDF documents.
  
• Templates and Layouts: Enhance data charts with a wealth of professionally designed chart Templates and Layouts.
  
• Simple Data Import: Works with Microsoft Office - easily import data from Excel. Also import data from other spreadsheets.
  
• Unicode Support: Supports charts with values in Japanese, Chinese and other Unicode languages.
  

More information about Rich Chart Builder, including animated Rich Media chart examples and a fully-featured evaluation version is available at: http://www.RichChartBuilder.com.