Documenting my adventures, daring and mundane, with analytics and cloud computing
I’ll give SAP a hat tip for some of the innovations in BI 2027. But it’s hard to ignore that one of those choices is Apache Derby, a database named after a hat style that feels stuck in another era.
What is Markdown, how was it created, why did it become so popular, and why did it take Dallas 21 years to learn it?
Microsoft’s recent hardening of Kerberos and RC4 encryption creates grief for some BusinessObjects customers.
SAP’s April 14, 2026 security bulletin has 3 vulnerabilities for BusinessObjects administrators.
The SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025 sizing guide has not yet been published, but I’ll post a link here as soon as it are available.
Last month— March 17, 2026, to be precise— SAP released patch 9 for SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025. Whenever SAP releases…
What I’m Watching: What’s Up Doc (1972) with Ryan O’Neal and Barbra Streisand
Eileen Richmond King (April 12, 1962 – March 19, 2026) She was the one who connected me with the “old…
My first encounter with Dave Rathbun was at the 2005 BusinessObjects Insight conference at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention…
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