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Excel, Crystal Xcelsius, dashboards and domain names

· By Jorge Camões · 1 min read

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This article was originally published on my ExcelCharts.com blog in 2008 and migrated to this site in 2026. The text preserves the context of the original publication.

Funny story... I was playing with domain names today, trying to register names for future projects like "exceldashboards.com". Unfortunately, this is already taken. And who owns it? Business Objects, the makers of Crystal Xcelsius (remember my Xcelsius dashboard series?). Type exceldashboards.com (I refuse to add a link) and you'll be redirected to the xcelsius home page where there's a tag line that reads "steal the show"...

After mumbling things unpublishable, I typed "xcelsiusdashboards.com" and lo and behold, it was available! Seems that BO don't believe in their own dashboard products...

Steal the show, they say...

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Updated on Jun 3, 2026