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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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Administration & Security

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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Dave Rathbun’s World Famous Cookie Recipe

Dallas MarksMarch 19, 2026March 20, 2026
My Opinion (and Yours) about Fact-Based Decisions
Business Intelligence

My Opinion (and Yours) about Fact-Based Decisions

Dallas MarksNovember 5, 2014March 3, 2016

A single version of the truth that we can all disagree about.

Tales of the Siren: A Starbucks Melody
Book Review

Tales of the Siren: A Starbucks Melody

Dallas MarksOctober 28, 2014April 4, 2026

What happens when a Seattleite starts a blog about her favorite coffee shop?

All I want for Christmas is an iPad Air 2
Mobile BI

All I want for Christmas is an iPad Air 2

Dallas MarksOctober 21, 2014February 24, 2026

Thoughts on Apple’s latest mobile devices.

Collaboration Leads to a ‘Comprehensive Guide’ on BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Career Updates, Reporting

Collaboration Leads to a ‘Comprehensive Guide’ on BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

Dallas MarksOctober 20, 2014February 18, 2026

Craig Powers from ASUG News talks about our new Web Intelligence book from SAP Press.

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2014 ASUG SABOUC Keynote with Steve Lucas

Dallas MarksOctober 15, 2014July 28, 2017

Be careful who you tweet about. You might end up on the same elevator ride.

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?

Meet Me at Starbucks
Business Intelligence

Meet Me at Starbucks

Dallas MarksOctober 6, 2014July 20, 2018

What can we learn from Starbucks’ first global ad campaign?

Changing Your Windows Password from a Remote Desktop
Odds and Ends

Changing Your Windows Password from a Remote Desktop

Dallas MarksOctober 5, 2014March 3, 2016

Password changes from remote desktops need not involve a ritual goat sacrifice.

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SAP BusinessObjects 4.1 Running on Windows 10 Technical Preview

Dallas MarksOctober 2, 2014February 25, 2026

SAP isn’t ready for Microsoft Windows 10 but its customers already are.

Platform

Don’t Fluster the Cluster, part 2

Dallas MarksOctober 2, 2014March 2, 2016

Don’t let your BI platform become a cluster chuck!

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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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