SAP Xcelsius has been discontinued. Squirrel365 is a modern replacement that uses the same fundamental model: connect your spreadsheet, bind visual components to cells, and publish a live, interactive app. Your existing Excel workbooks work here. Your formulas transfer. What changes is the output — a responsive web application, shareable by URL, with no Flash plugin and no SWF file.
SAP Xcelsius, also known as SAP Crystal Dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, reached end of life alongside Adobe Flash. The SWF files it produced relied on the Flash Player, which browsers stopped supporting at the end of 2020. Dashboards that worked reliably for years no longer run in modern environments.If you're managing a library of .xlf files, maintaining dashboards for internal reporting or client-facing output, you're not alone. Many BI developers and analysts are in exactly the same position. The question isn't whether to move — it's where.
Squirrel365 is built on the same principle as Xcelsius: your spreadsheet is the logic engine. You connect a workbook, bind visual components to cell ranges, configure your interactions, and publish. There's no new paradigm to learn and no need to migrate your logic to a database or rebuild calculations from scratch. Your existing workbooks are the starting point.
Spreadsheet logic
Import your existing Excel workbooks directly into Squirrel365. Formulas, calculations and data structures transfer as they are. You're building on what you've already built.
Universal
Where Xcelsius published an SWF file requiring the Flash Player, Squirrel365 publishes a web application. Share it by URL, embed it in a portal or intranet, open it on any device. No browser plugins. No IT deployment.
SELF-SUFFICIENT
You build it, you own it, you update it. Publishing and maintaining your apps sits entirely in your hands — there's no handoff to a development team required.
Import your workbook. Bring your existing Excel file into Squirrel365. Your formulas, ranges and data structure are preserved exactly as they are.
Select and configure your visual components, bind them to your cell ranges, and set up your interactions — using a canvas-based interface you'll find immediately familiar.
Publish your app to a URL. Share it directly or embed it wherever it needs to live. Update it yourself whenever the brief changes.
Squirrel365 preserves the working model you know. It also adds capabilities that Xcelsius couldn't offer.
Connected
Connect to SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, CSV sources, and external data. Your published apps reflect current data rather than a snapshot from the last export.
Testing
Test your interactions before you publish. Debug mode activates canvas interaction during the build phase, so you can verify what's happening in the spreadsheet as you work through your logic, a long-standing gap in the Xcelsius workflow.
Distribution
Every published app has its own URL. Share it directly with a colleague, embed it in a portal, or restrict access to specific users. No BI platform infrastructure required to distribute your output.
Maintained
Squirrel365 is in active development, with new features shipping regularly. You're not moving from one discontinued product to another.
Squirrel365 is the closest modern equivalent to SAP Xcelsius. It uses the same spreadsheet-binding model: import an Excel workbook, bind visual components to cell ranges, and publish an interactive app. Output is a browser-native web application with no Flash dependency and no SWF file, shareable by URL on any device.
Yes. You import your existing Excel workbook directly into Squirrel365. Your formulas, calculations and data ranges are preserved. Squirrel365 uses your spreadsheet as the logic engine in the same way Xcelsius did, so the structure you've already built transfers without needing to be rebuilt or converted into a different format.
Yes. Squirrel365 integrates with SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, allowing you to connect your app directly to WebI reports as a live data source. You can build interactive front-ends on top of your existing SAP BusinessObjects content without leaving your current data environment or restructuring your reporting setup.
No. Squirrel365 is designed to be used directly by BI analysts and report developers. You build, configure and publish your apps without writing code or involving a development team. Where Xcelsius often required IT support for deployment, Squirrel365 puts the full publish-and-share workflow in your hands from the outset.
Xcelsius was rebranded as SAP Crystal Dashboards, then SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, before being discontinued. Its end of life coincided with Adobe Flash being discontinued at the end of 2020. SWF files produced by Xcelsius no longer run in modern browsers, making migration to an alternative necessary for anyone with active dashboards still in use.
Squirrel365 is a code-free development environment designed for technically capable users: analysts, report developers and BI professionals. You configure logic through your spreadsheet and component settings rather than writing code. It's built for people who know how to work with data and want a professional tool that respects that — not a simplified platform aimed at beginners.
Squirrel365 does not use Flash at any point. It publishes to browser-native web applications that run in any modern browser on any device, with no plugins required. If you have Xcelsius dashboards that no longer work due to Flash being discontinued, rebuilding them in Squirrel365 produces a fully modern equivalent with better distribution options and live data support.
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