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Dashboards, formerly known as Xcelsius

Everything Xcelsius is For Sale
Dashboards, Odds and Ends

Everything Xcelsius is For Sale

Dallas MarksMarch 5, 2026March 9, 2026

I am in the process of giving my blog a spring cleaning. It’s kind of sad that technical blogs age…

Overdesigning BI Architecture for SAP Design Studio
Dashboards, Lumira & Explorer, Platform

Overdesigning BI Architecture for SAP Design Studio

Dallas MarksSeptember 18, 2014March 18, 2026

Rethinking when to install the SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio server components.

Dashboards

MAD About Olympic Sports

Dallas MarksFebruary 20, 2014July 20, 2017

Online journalism is changing expectations about corporate business intelligence.

What Does the Fox Say?
Dashboards

What Does the Fox Say?

Dallas MarksOctober 22, 2013April 4, 2026

What does Andrew Fox have to say about dashboards?

Information Dashboard Design, Second Edition by Stephen Few
Book Review, Dashboards

Information Dashboard Design, Second Edition by Stephen Few

Dallas MarksAugust 28, 2013February 25, 2026

Stephen Few releases a significant update to his classic dashboard design book.

Dashboards, Odds and Ends

A Plug for your Adobe Flash Plug-In

Dallas MarksFebruary 18, 2013April 25, 2017

Adobe really wants you to keep using your Flash player.

Choosing Dashboard Fonts
Dashboards, What I'm Watching

Choosing Dashboard Fonts

Dallas MarksJanuary 22, 2013July 21, 2017

Although there are thousands of different fonts available, only a handful are truly timeless.

State of the Dashboard
Dashboards

State of the Dashboard

Dallas MarksApril 19, 2012February 26, 2026

What is the state of the SAP Dashboard?

The Future of SAP Dashboards
Dashboards

The Future of SAP Dashboards

Dallas MarksApril 18, 2012March 18, 2026

Analysis of SAP’s long-anticipated statement of direction (SOD) for dashboards

Between an Xcelsius Rock and Dashboard Hard Place
Dashboards

Between an Xcelsius Rock and Dashboard Hard Place

Dallas MarksMarch 27, 2012February 25, 2026

Xcelsius is not dead. But neither is speculation about its future.

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Dallas Marks

Dallas Marks

As a cloud and analytics practitioner, author, instructional designer, and trainer, I help organizations harness the power of analytics in the cloud, on-premise, or hybrid. I prefer piano keyboards over computer keyboards when not blogging or tweeting about analytics.

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