What is Xcelsius (SAP Dashboards)?

Xcelsius was an intuitive web-based analytics suite that allowed you to create dashboards and reports with little or no programming. It provided analytical tools for data, insight, and decision-making. Within the SAP BusinessObjects suite, Xcelsius was the primary dashboard development tool.

Business intelligence dashboarding is an interactive, graphical display of summarized data. Various techniques are used to show relationships and patterns in the data by highlighting relationships between measures using color, size, height, or distance. It combines multiple metrics into concise displays that enable analysts and executives to assess large amounts of information with little effort quickly.

Key Features of Xcelsius Dashboards were:

  • Intuitive graphical data visualization
  • Business-minded dashboard customizations
  • Data source options
  • Rich business intelligence user interface
  • Dashboard deployment for PDF, MS Office, or on the Web.
  • Understanding key organizational metrics

Common business uses of Xcelsius include:

  • Scenario visualization
  • Dynamic data visualizations
  • Decision support presentations
  • Business and cost-analysis calculators
  • Budgeting and planning modeling
  • GUI front-end for many types of software applications
  • Data analytics and real-time data monitoring
  • Creation of balanced scorecards and executive dashboards
  • Data visualization techniques in quality analysis
  • Web-based IT governance dashboards
  • Real-time BI visualization

Xcelsius Articles

Farewell to a True BI Visionary

Santiago Becerra, the founder of Infommersion (creators of Xcelsius) and co-founder of Mellmo (creators of Roambi), passed away last week. I had the honor of knowing this true data visualization visionary who…

dCode: HTML5 Dashboards Without the Coding

Update: dCode is now available for purchase! At IBIS 2015 we announced the first product to come out of the InfoSol UK Labs team, “dCode”. dCode is an add on to Xcelsius which…