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Toy Story 5 and BI 2027: Two Very Different Kinds of Sequels

Dallas MarksJune 19, 2026June 18, 2026
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Administration & Security

What Is Markdown?

Dallas MarksApril 30, 2026April 30, 2026
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Where Can I Find the SAP BusinessObjects Release Notes?

Dallas MarksApril 6, 2026April 6, 2026
Make BusinessObjects Great Again - Red Hat Meme
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Using Your Influence – How to Turn Your Ideas into Real Product Improvements

Dallas MarksFebruary 17, 2026May 26, 2026
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Getting Serious in the Sandbox

Dallas MarksNovember 18, 2025February 13, 2026
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SAP Should Join the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI)

Dallas MarksOctober 30, 2025October 29, 2025
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Career Development

Hey Jude, or Advice to a Lonely BusinessObjects Professional

Dallas MarksOctober 25, 2024February 22, 2026

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Administration & Security

WebiJavaGeddon III: The Kerbocalypse

Dallas MarksApril 23, 2026April 23, 2026
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I Love You Goodbye

Dallas MarksMarch 31, 2026March 31, 2026
Eileen King and I at BusinessObjects Insight 2006
Career Updates

Remembering Eileen King

Dallas MarksMarch 20, 2026April 5, 2026
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Odds and Ends

Dave Rathbun’s World Famous Cookie Recipe

Dallas MarksMarch 19, 2026March 20, 2026
The Last Man on the Moon
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The Last Man on the Moon

Dallas MarksOctober 27, 2017April 26, 2018

Gene Cernan lived an extraordinary life that’s captured in a beautiful documentary.

SAP Insider BI & HANA 2018
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SAP Insider BI & HANA 2018

Dallas MarksOctober 20, 2017July 17, 2021

Come to Las Vegas to learn the latest and greatest about SAP solutions for analytics and HANA.

Book Review: The Big Book of Dashboards
Book Review

Book Review: The Big Book of Dashboards

Dallas MarksOctober 18, 2017April 18, 2026

Twenty-eight real-world dashboards show how solid design can illuminate your business data.

SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence: The Comprehensive Guide, Fourth Edition
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SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence: The Comprehensive Guide, Fourth Edition

Dallas MarksSeptember 25, 2017September 27, 2017

The best book on SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence is now even better.

Is SAP Mobile BI Ready for iOS 11?
Mobile BI

Is SAP Mobile BI Ready for iOS 11?

Dallas MarksSeptember 24, 2017February 28, 2026

Apple iOS 11 has been out less than a week but it’s already old news for SAP’s mobile analytics team.

Talk Like a Web Intelligence Pirate
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Talk Like a Web Intelligence Pirate

Dallas MarksSeptember 18, 2017September 17, 2017

Ahoy there, mates! It’s September 19, time to celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day with the Web Intelligence iRate PieRates. This…

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 6.6.5
Lumira & Explorer, Mobile BI

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 6.6.5

Dallas MarksSeptember 18, 2017February 26, 2026

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile 6.6.5 for iOS includes Lumira 2.0 compatibility and is the first version to support a new iOS version before it is released.

Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo
What I'm Watching

Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo

Dallas MarksSeptember 1, 2017April 19, 2026

One small step for your remote control, but one giant leap for your Netflix queue.

SAP Lumira 2.0 compatibility with SAP BI platform
Lumira & Explorer

SAP Lumira 2.0 compatibility with SAP BI platform

Dallas MarksAugust 30, 2017March 26, 2018

Which versions of the BI platform are compatible with SAP Lumira 2.0?

Book Review: Presenting Data Effectively, Second Edition, by Stephanie Evergreen
Book Review

Book Review: Presenting Data Effectively, Second Edition, by Stephanie Evergreen

Dallas MarksAugust 1, 2017April 19, 2026

Stephanie Evergreen’s new book can help you create persuasive, data-driven documents that present your analysis in the best possible light.

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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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