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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’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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Dave Rathbun’s World Famous Cookie Recipe

Dallas MarksMarch 19, 2026March 20, 2026
User Groups & Conferences

2009 SAP BusinessObjects User Conference

Dallas MarksOctober 18, 2009

Making my way to the 2009 ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference

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Career Updates

Getting ORGanized

Dallas MarksSeptember 4, 2009

Moving my blog from Google to Wordpress

SQL in a Nutshell
Book Review, SQL

SQL in a Nutshell

Dallas MarksAugust 23, 2009March 4, 2026

SQL in a Nutshell is available in the iTunes App Store or from traditional booksellers like Amazon.com.

The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web
Book Review

The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web

Dallas MarksAugust 16, 2009February 27, 2026

The New Community Rules is invaluable reading for individuals and organizations dipping their toes in the waters of the social web.

Lumira & Explorer

Sizing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer

Dallas MarksAugust 4, 2009March 2, 2026

Where to find the Sizing SAP BusinessObjects Explorer guide.

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What I'm Watching

Tron: Legacy

Dallas MarksJuly 28, 2009February 28, 2026

A sequel to the ground-breaking Tron is finally on its way.

Odds and Ends

My very own iPhone – almost

Dallas MarksJuly 26, 2009

My Palm Treo 680 died a slow, painful death. I still have a conspiracy theory that mobile phone companies jack…

SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP2 and Xcelsius 2008 SP2
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SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP2 and Xcelsius 2008 SP2

Dallas MarksJuly 24, 2009December 17, 2025

Well, it’s finally here. SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1 SP2 has been released. And today is also the day that Xcelsius…

Tuning BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 and VMware – Part 2
Administration & Security

Tuning BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 and VMware – Part 2

Dallas MarksJuly 22, 2009February 25, 2026

Here’s what I’ve accomplished so far. Disable Unnecessary Windows Services Increase physical and virtual memory For this one, I gently…

Tuning BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 and VMware – Part I
Administration & Security

Tuning BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 and VMware – Part I

Dallas MarksJuly 21, 2009February 26, 2026

I normally try to post useful information on my blog, but on this post, I need your help. Please feel…

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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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