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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
PlatformReportingSAP

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
Hubble Deep Field
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
SAP SAPPHIRE: Too Much HANA Montana and Not Enough BIeber 4.0?
User Groups & Conferences

SAP SAPPHIRE: Too Much HANA Montana and Not Enough BIeber 4.0?

Dallas MarksMay 20, 2011April 28, 2017

My impressions of SAP SAPPHIRE 2011

You Can’t Get There Alone – The Power of Partners
Career Development, Career Updates

You Can’t Get There Alone – The Power of Partners

Dallas MarksMay 18, 2011July 17, 2021

Before there was an SAP Mentor program, Jeff was a true BusinessObjects mentor.

Lumira & Explorer, Mobile BI

Quiet update for SAP BusinessObjects Explorer for iOS

Dallas MarksMay 17, 2011July 20, 2018

SAP BusinessObjects Explorer 1.02 for iOS

Whacking the WACS
Platform

Whacking the WACS

Dallas MarksMay 4, 2011April 28, 2017

How to remove the WACS server if you’re not using it.

Odds and Ends

Remote Desktop Services Shortcut Keys

Dallas MarksMay 3, 2011

Here is a useful Microsoft MSDN article about Remote Desktop Services Shortcut Keys.  For example, use <CTRL><ALT><MINUS KEY> to capture…

Missing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Servers
Lumira & Explorer

Missing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer Servers

Dallas MarksMay 2, 2011February 25, 2026

Find missing servers with AddNode.bat

Don’t Fluster the Cluster
Platform

Don’t Fluster the Cluster

Dallas MarksApril 13, 2011February 24, 2026

An improperly designed architecture may cause your cluster to become fluffed.

Planning the SAP BI4 Upgrade
Administration & Security, Podcasts

Planning the SAP BI4 Upgrade

Dallas MarksApril 7, 2011February 26, 2026

It’s time to start planning for the GA (general availability) of SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0.

Platform, Reporting

Getting the most out of your Web Intelligence Processing Servers

Dallas MarksApril 6, 2011

Matthew Shaw helps us get the most out of our Web Intelligence Processing Servers

I Fight For the Users!
Business Intelligence, What I'm Watching

I Fight For the Users!

Dallas MarksApril 5, 2011March 5, 2026

Do you fight for your users?

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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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