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Administration & Security

What Is Markdown?

Dallas MarksApril 30, 2026April 30, 2026
SAP BusinessObjects BI 2025 Sizing Guide
Administration & Security

Where Can I Find the Sizing Guide for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 2025?

Dallas MarksApril 22, 2026April 21, 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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Business Intelligence

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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What I'm Watching

What’s Up, Doc?

Dallas MarksApril 4, 2026April 4, 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
Curiosity Killed the Cloud
Business Intelligence

Curiosity Killed the Cloud

Dallas MarksJuly 23, 2013February 19, 2026

Overwhelming interest in Tableau is overwhelming servers.

Lumira & Explorer

Hacking SAP BusinessObjects Explorer 4.0

Dallas MarksJuly 11, 2013July 25, 2016

Enabling UNV support for BI 4.0 SP6

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Odds and Ends

Create Popular Windows Desktop Shortcuts for All Users

Dallas MarksJuly 10, 2013April 25, 2017

Create public shortcuts to make everyone’s life easier.

The Art of Possibility
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The Art of Possibility

Dallas MarksJuly 9, 2013April 18, 2026

Learn to see the possibilities in every situation.

User Groups & Conferences

2013 NKU Business Intelligence Summit for Higher Education

Dallas MarksJuly 8, 2013July 28, 2017

NKU is holding it’s 4th annual BI Summit for higher education and I’ll be there.

How to Find Microsoft Windows Uptime?
Odds and Ends

How to Find Microsoft Windows Uptime?

Dallas MarksJuly 5, 2013May 19, 2021

Unix and Linux users can easily determine the uptime of their system by entering the command who -b.  Microsoft Windows users…

Odds and Ends

SAP Support Portal Enhancement Request

Dallas MarksJuly 3, 2013

Shorter product names or wider drop-down lists. Your call, SAP.

Platform

First Impressions of SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1

Dallas MarksJuly 2, 2013April 25, 2017

Any chance we could sneak in a couple of enhancements before BI 4.1 GA?

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Platform

Promotion Management gets a Promotion

Dallas MarksJuly 1, 2013March 5, 2026

SAP is listening to our concerns about promotion management on the BI platform.

Lumira & Explorer, Mobile BI

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile for iOS 5.0

Dallas MarksJune 26, 2013February 10, 2026

SAP BusinessObjects Mobile for iOS 5.0 integrates Explorer, Lumira and more.

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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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