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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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SAPSemantic Layer

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
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Education

No SAP BusinessObjects Professional Left Behind

Dallas MarksAugust 17, 2011February 26, 2026

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 training is right around the corner.

The Grid
Business Intelligence, What I'm Watching

The Grid

Dallas MarksAugust 5, 2011July 21, 2017

The biodigital jazz of “human form into digital space” is, obviously, science fiction. However, we willingly allow smartphones and VPN’s to pull us into The Grid all of the time.

End of the Road for Dashboards?
Dashboards

End of the Road for Dashboards?

Dallas MarksAugust 3, 2011February 23, 2026

Are we at the end of the road for dashboards?

Is Google+ the Third Place of Social Networking?
Social Networking

Is Google+ the Third Place of Social Networking?

Dallas MarksAugust 2, 2011February 23, 2026

Can Google+ be the “third place” of social networking? Or is it simply in third place?

Branding Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence

Branding Business Intelligence

Dallas MarksAugust 1, 2011November 3, 2025

Business intelligence teams can avoid being at the mercy of any vendor’s marketing team.

SAP

WSJ.com – SAP Guidance Lifts Shares

Dallas MarksJuly 26, 2011

The raised outlook marks an accelerated turnaround for SAP.

Delivering Personalized and Secure Business Intelligence
Semantic Layer, User Groups & Conferences

Delivering Personalized and Secure Business Intelligence

Dallas MarksJuly 19, 2011April 21, 2017

Security profiles in the new SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 Information Design Tool.

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Odds and Ends, Podcasts

First Annual Diversified Semantic Layer Family Picnic

Dallas MarksJuly 18, 2011March 6, 2026

News from the First Annual Diversified Semantic Layer Family Picnic

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – What IT Needs to Know
Lumira & Explorer

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer – What IT Needs to Know

Dallas MarksJuly 14, 2011February 25, 2026

Just like a political talk show on cable, the truth about SAP BusinessObjects Explorer is somewhere in the middle.

St. Louis
Administration & Security, Lumira & Explorer, User Groups & Conferences

St. Louis

Dallas MarksJuly 11, 2011February 24, 2026

This week, St. Louis is the center of the universe. Specifically, the BusinessObjects universe.

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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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