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SAP Security Patch Day – February 2026

Dallas MarksMarch 3, 2026March 3, 2026
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Customizing SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025

Dallas MarksFebruary 10, 2026February 21, 2026
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Lumira?

Dallas MarksFebruary 9, 2026February 13, 2026
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Getting Serious in the Sandbox

Dallas MarksNovember 18, 2025February 13, 2026
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Join me at the 2026 IBIS conference

Dallas MarksJanuary 28, 2026January 28, 2026
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SAP Should Join the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI)

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Dallas MarksOctober 25, 2024February 22, 2026

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Dallas MarksJuly 15, 2025October 22, 2025
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My Honest Review of Tron: Ares

Dallas MarksOctober 17, 2025January 3, 2026
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Metadata is for everyone- not just for administrators

Dallas MarksNovember 22, 2023October 4, 2024
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From Live Office to Lost Office: SAP Closes a Chapter

Dallas MarksMarch 10, 2026March 10, 2026

Live Office was a plug-in for Microsoft Office created by Business Objects as part of the XI R2 platform released…

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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…

SAP Security Patch Day – February 2026
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SAP Security Patch Day – February 2026

Dallas MarksMarch 3, 2026March 3, 2026

Each month, SAP issues Security Patch Day Bulletins on the second Tuesday of every month- which has been synchronized with…

Using Your Influence – How to Turn Your Ideas into Real Product Improvements
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Using Your Influence – How to Turn Your Ideas into Real Product Improvements

Dallas MarksFebruary 17, 2026February 21, 2026

Submit ideas to improve the SAP BusinessObjects platform and its Crystal Reports and Web Intelligence tools.

Customizing SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025
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Customizing SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025

Dallas MarksFebruary 10, 2026February 21, 2026

SAP BusinessObjects 4.3 and BI 2025 (aka BI2025 or 4.4) use a new Fiorified BI Launch Pad, so the manner…

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Lumira?
Lumira & Explorer

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Lumira?

Dallas MarksFebruary 9, 2026February 13, 2026

The hills are alive with the sound of frustrated SAP Lumira users. Check out my latest article on the InfoSol…

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Waiting for the Next Train

Dallas MarksFebruary 5, 2026February 4, 2026

I can’t remember the first time I met Jim Brogden, but it was likely at a BusinessObjects conference in the…

Join me at the 2026 IBIS conference
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Join me at the 2026 IBIS conference

Dallas MarksJanuary 28, 2026January 28, 2026

I’ve been selected to share three sessions at the 2026 IBIS conference at the outstanding Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain, from June…

a-ha – They’ve Got What it Takes
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a-ha – They’ve Got What it Takes

Dallas MarksJanuary 26, 2026February 19, 2026

Ask a typical American on a street corner about the band a-ha and they’ll likely tell you that it’s an…

​​Building Tableau and Power BI Dashboards using Data from SAP BusinessObjects Universes
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​​Building Tableau and Power BI Dashboards using Data from SAP BusinessObjects Universes

Dallas MarksDecember 16, 2025February 23, 2026

The power of the BusinessObjects universe, the semantic layer behind Web Intelligence and other SAP analytics tools, is unquestioned. As…

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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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