Skip to content

Dallas Marks

Documenting my adventures, daring and mundane, with analytics and cloud computing

  • Home
  • BI Career Coach
    • BI Career Coach – Personal Brand Accelerator
  • Books
  • Writing
  • Speaking
  • About Dallas Marks
  • Disclaimer
Flash News
Professional in business suit shaking hands Improving Your LinkedIn Profile
Professional in business suit shaking hands Improving Your LinkedIn Company Profile
Resume in a document shredder SAP BusinessObjects Resume Tips
Resume in a document shredder SAP Crystal Reports Resume Tips
LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies book cover LinkedIn Profile Optimization for Dummies: Book Review
Photo by Kuan Liao: https://www.pexels.com/photo/monochrome-photo-of-wooden-tables-and-chairs-12392475/
SAPSemantic Layer

Why SAP Belongs at the Apache Ossie Table

Dallas MarksOctober 14, 2026October 14, 2026
Speak BO Logo
Speak BO

What I Wrote for Speak BO in September 2026

Dallas MarksOctober 6, 2026October 5, 2026
State of the BusinessObjects Upgrade | Photo by MART PRODUCTION: https://www.pexels.com/photo/a-man-reading-a-newspaper-at-a-coffee-shop-7255445/
Platform

State of the SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade – September 2026

Dallas MarksSeptember 21, 2026October 6, 2026
Make BusinessObjects Great Again - Red Hat Meme
PlatformReportingSAP

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

Dallas MarksFebruary 17, 2026October 14, 2026
Pexels kid in sandbox with buckets
Business Intelligence

Getting Serious in the Sandbox

Dallas MarksNovember 18, 2025February 13, 2026
Administration & Security

Where Can I Find the SAP Product Availability Matrix (PAM)?

Dallas MarksJuly 8, 2026July 7, 2026
Pexels, Anna Tarazevich
Career Development

Hey Jude, or Advice to a Lonely BusinessObjects Professional

Dallas MarksOctober 25, 2024September 16, 2026

Latest Posts

View All
Photo by Rafael Barros: Portrait of a senior man with eyeglasses and a bowler hat looking directly into the camera https://www.pexels.com/photo/an-older-man-wearing-a-hat-and-glasses-27857716/
Platform

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

Dallas MarksJune 19, 2026June 18, 2026
What is Markdown [M] ↓ banner image
Administration & Security

What Is Markdown?

Dallas MarksApril 30, 2026August 11, 2026
WebiJavaGeddon III: The Kerbocalypse
Administration & Security

WebiJavaGeddon III: The Kerbocalypse

Dallas MarksApril 23, 2026April 23, 2026
Dave Rathbun's famous chocolate chip cookies. Photo Credit: Dave Rathbun
Odds and Ends

Dave Rathbun’s World Famous Cookie Recipe

Dallas MarksMarch 19, 2026March 20, 2026
Killing Explorer
Lumira & Explorer

Killing Explorer

Dallas MarksApril 16, 2018February 24, 2026

How to remove all evidence of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer.

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
Lumira & Explorer, Platform, Semantic Layer

If You Love Somebody Set Them Free

Dallas MarksMarch 28, 2018March 2, 2026

SAP, if you love your BI platform users, it’s time to set them free.

What we learned from 31 releases of SAP Lumira
Lumira & Explorer

What we learned from 31 releases of SAP Lumira

Dallas MarksMarch 27, 2018April 27, 2026

Baskin-Robbins, the ice cream retailer, has gotten a lot of mileage from its “Thirty-Onederful Flavors” slogan. What is less clear is how SAP fared after thirty-one releases of its Lumira data discovery software.

Everything Must Change
Business Intelligence

Everything Must Change

Dallas MarksMarch 13, 2018March 9, 2026

Like it or not, everything MUST change, including SAP’s analytics roadmap.

New BI Launch Pad Customization in SAP BI 4.2 SP5
Administration & Security

New BI Launch Pad Customization in SAP BI 4.2 SP5

Dallas MarksMarch 7, 2018February 9, 2026

A new and much welcome enhancement for the BI Launch Pad logon screen.

State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade – February 2018
Platform

State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade – February 2018

Dallas MarksFebruary 14, 2018October 6, 2026

SAP BusinessObjects 4.1, SAP Lumira 1.x and SAP Design Studio 1.x maintenance all come to an end in 2018. Here’s how to plan for the future.

SAP Insider BI & HANA 2018
Semantic Layer, User Groups & Conferences

SAP Insider BI & HANA 2018

Dallas MarksJanuary 26, 2018January 28, 2026

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

2017 Year in Review
Career Updates

2017 Year in Review

Dallas MarksDecember 31, 2017January 1, 2026

A personal reflection on the past year.

For the Love of Spock
What I'm Watching

For the Love of Spock

Dallas MarksNovember 10, 2017November 10, 2017

A fascinating look at the actor that made an extra-terrestrial from a cancelled 1960’s TV series into a cultural icon.

All the Web Intelligence That’s Fit to Print
Reporting

All the Web Intelligence That’s Fit to Print

Dallas MarksNovember 9, 2017February 18, 2026

Printing a Web Intelligence document isn’t a necessary evil- it’s simply necessary. And SAP should graciously support users who work in industries where a printer is required equipment.

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 10 11 12 … 64 Next

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.

View Full Profile →

  • Bluesky
  • Facebook
  • GitHub
  • LinkedIn
  • X
  • YouTube

Categories

  • Administration & Security (67)
  • Book Review (72)
  • Business Intelligence (47)
  • Career Development (36)
    • Education (1)
    • Presentation Skills (9)
    • Social Networking (2)
  • Career Updates (53)
    • Podcasts (8)
  • Cloud Computing (1)
  • Dashboards (33)
  • Data Visualization (7)
  • Lumira & Explorer (49)
  • Mobile BI (46)
  • Odds and Ends (71)
    • What I'm Watching (24)
    • What I’m listening to (2)
  • Platform (81)
  • Reporting (55)
  • SAP (25)
  • Semantic Layer (28)
  • Speak BO (11)
  • SQL (3)
  • Tech Tips (7)
  • User Groups & Conferences (82)
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.

To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy

This site is created and managed by The Delgallo Company.

Copyright © 2026 Dallas Marks | Fresh News by Ascendoor | Powered by WordPress.
Dallas Marks
Disclaimer / Proudly powered by WordPress Theme: Fresh News.