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Where Can I Find the SAP BusinessObjects Release Notes?

Dallas MarksApril 6, 2026April 6, 2026
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Join me at the 2026 IBIS conference

Dallas MarksJanuary 28, 2026January 28, 2026
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From Live Office to Lost Office: SAP Closes a Chapter

Dallas MarksMarch 10, 2026April 5, 2026
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Getting Serious in the Sandbox

Dallas MarksNovember 18, 2025February 13, 2026
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Career Updates

Remembering Eileen King

Dallas MarksMarch 20, 2026April 5, 2026
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SAP Should Join the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI)

Dallas MarksOctober 30, 2025October 29, 2025
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Hey Jude, or Advice to a Lonely BusinessObjects Professional

Dallas MarksOctober 25, 2024February 22, 2026

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Career Development

Improving Your LinkedIn Profile

Dallas MarksJuly 15, 2025October 22, 2025
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Career Development

Improving Your LinkedIn Company Profile

Dallas MarksAugust 8, 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
Where Can I Find the SAP BusinessObjects Release Notes?
Administration & Security

Where Can I Find the SAP BusinessObjects Release Notes?

Dallas MarksApril 6, 2026April 6, 2026

Last month— March 17, 2026, to be precise— SAP released patch 9 for SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025. Whenever SAP releases…

What’s Up, Doc?
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What’s Up, Doc?

Dallas MarksApril 4, 2026April 4, 2026

What I’m Watching: What’s Up Doc (1972) with Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand

I Love You Goodbye
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I Love You Goodbye

Dallas MarksMarch 31, 2026March 31, 2026

Some words are sad to sing
Some leave me tongue-tied

Remembering Eileen King
Career Updates

Remembering Eileen King

Dallas MarksMarch 20, 2026April 5, 2026

Eileen Richmond King (April 12, 1962 – March 19, 2026) She was the one who connected me with the “old…

Dave Rathbun’s World Famous Cookie Recipe
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Dave Rathbun’s World Famous Cookie Recipe

Dallas MarksMarch 19, 2026March 20, 2026

My first encounter with Dave Rathbun was at the 2005 BusinessObjects Insight conference at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention…

From Live Office to Lost Office: SAP Closes a Chapter
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From Live Office to Lost Office: SAP Closes a Chapter

Dallas MarksMarch 10, 2026April 5, 2026

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

Everything Xcelsius is For Sale
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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
Administration & Security

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
Platform, Reporting, SAP

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
Administration & Security

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…

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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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