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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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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
Hubble Deep Field
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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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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
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Remembering Eileen King

Dallas MarksMarch 20, 2026April 5, 2026
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Dave Rathbun’s World Famous Cookie Recipe

Dallas MarksMarch 19, 2026March 20, 2026
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Elevating Analytics Skills with SAP Training

Dallas MarksJanuary 12, 2016December 23, 2025

Jim Brogden, the lead author for the SAP Press books about Web Intelligence, recruited me in 2015 to write some…

SAP Insider BI 2016
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SAP Insider BI 2016

Dallas MarksJanuary 6, 2016September 27, 2017

Join me in Las Vegas for SAP Insider’s BI 2016.

2015 Year in Review
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2015 Year in Review

Dallas MarksDecember 31, 2015January 1, 2026

A personal reflection on the past year.

Installing Two Oracle 12c Clients on One Server
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Installing Two Oracle 12c Clients on One Server

Dallas MarksSeptember 23, 2015October 26, 2018

The Oracle 12c 32-bit client requires a little bit of extra attention.

Waiting on SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2
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Waiting on SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2

Dallas MarksSeptember 14, 2015July 20, 2017

Are you waiting, too?

How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson
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How We Got to Now by Steven Johnson

Dallas MarksAugust 27, 2015April 18, 2026

A engrossing account of how glass, cold, sound, clean, time, and light have shaped our modern world.

Book Review: Do the KIND Thing by Daniel Lubetzky
Book Review

Book Review: Do the KIND Thing by Daniel Lubetzky

Dallas MarksAugust 24, 2015April 19, 2026

Are you doing the KIND thing at the office?

Web Intelligence and Free-Hand SQL
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Web Intelligence and Free-Hand SQL

Dallas MarksJuly 30, 2015April 19, 2026

SAP has put yet another nail in the coffin of Desktop Intelligence.

SAP BusinessObjects Support for Windows 10
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SAP BusinessObjects Support for Windows 10

Dallas MarksJuly 27, 2015March 20, 2026

Microsoft Windows 10 arrives this week, with SAP BI support not too far behind.

Will Security Concerns Override Your BI Strategy?
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Will Security Concerns Override Your BI Strategy?

Dallas MarksJuly 22, 2015April 18, 2026

The future of Flash may no longer be in the hands of Adobe but instead in the hands of IT security.

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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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