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Articles typically about SAP company news rather than news about their analytics products.

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.

SAP Should Join the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI)
SAP, Semantic Layer

SAP Should Join the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI)

Dallas MarksOctober 30, 2025October 29, 2025

On April 24, 1990, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Discovery and the Hubble Space Telescope into space. Around the same…

Is it a bug or a feature?
Administration & Security, Reporting, SAP, Semantic Layer

Is it a bug or a feature?

Dallas MarksOctober 1, 2025February 9, 2026

I say “bug”, SAP says “enhancement request”. Who’s right?

Restoring the Brand
Business Intelligence, SAP

Restoring the Brand

Dallas MarksSeptember 18, 2025

What SAP can learn from Volkswagen. In the mid 2000’s, Volkswagen came to a startling conclusion. It was successful with…

Don’t Touch That Logo!
SAP

Don’t Touch That Logo!

Dallas MarksSeptember 8, 2025September 8, 2025

Revisiting SAP’s “golden moment” in 2014. With everyone around the world nervous about financial instability and war, the news media…

Can SAP Innovate Like Tesla?
SAP

Can SAP Innovate Like Tesla?

Dallas MarksApril 27, 2017February 19, 2026

SAP needs a Falcon rocket that can land on the barge of its BI platform.

Always a SAP TechEd Bridesmaid…
SAP, User Groups & Conferences

Always a SAP TechEd Bridesmaid…

Dallas MarksOctober 10, 2014March 5, 2026

Never a SAP TechEd bride. Maybe next year?

SAP Analytics Future Vision and Strategy
SAP

SAP Analytics Future Vision and Strategy

Dallas MarksAugust 15, 2013

The future of SAP Analytics, from 30,000 feet

New Directions for SAP Analytics?
SAP

New Directions for SAP Analytics?

Dallas MarksAugust 13, 2013February 19, 2026

Steve Lucas prepares to share the future of SAP Analytics.

Dell Loves SAP HANA. Really.
SAP

Dell Loves SAP HANA. Really.

Dallas MarksAugust 2, 2013March 5, 2026

SAP HANA not only solves Big Data challenges, but Big PR Nightmares, too.

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About Dallas Marks

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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