Link: http://www.itworld.com/software/54726/how-ruin-great-application

Xcelsius is the new flagship product for Dashboarding of SAP Business Objects. It enables developers and users with less technical abilities to build sexy interactive Dashboards to vizualize data and turn it into information. However, to be honest we have to admit that there are some issues with Xcelsius. If there where none, this Blog would not exist hence.

"Once upon a time there was a really, really, really cool application called Xcelsius. Using this software you could create the most amazing corporate information dashboards and analytical tools. It was pure magic. But then the dark clouds of acquisition did swirl across the commercial landscape and in late 2005 Business Objects purchased Infommersion and Business Objects was, in turn, acquired by SAP AG in January this year. And in all of this swirl and flurry of filthy lucre the Xcelsius product apparently got rather sidelined. What the various owners of Xcelsius have done is take a truly great, market-defining product and mismanage it into a complete, shambolic mess. It has become unreliable, its performance often terrible and it is horribly buggy."

Read the full article by Mark Gibbs at itworld.com