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Professional in business suit shaking hands Improving Your LinkedIn Company Profile
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SAPSemantic Layer

Why SAP Belongs at the Apache Ossie Table

Dallas MarksOctober 14, 2026October 14, 2026
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Speak BO

What I Wrote for Speak BO in September 2026

Dallas MarksOctober 6, 2026October 5, 2026
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State of the SAP BusinessObjects Upgrade – September 2026

Dallas MarksSeptember 21, 2026October 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, 2026October 14, 2026
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Business Intelligence

Getting Serious in the Sandbox

Dallas MarksNovember 18, 2025February 13, 2026
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Where Can I Find the SAP Product Availability Matrix (PAM)?

Dallas MarksJuly 8, 2026July 7, 2026
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Career Development

Hey Jude, or Advice to a Lonely BusinessObjects Professional

Dallas MarksOctober 25, 2024September 16, 2026

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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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What Is Markdown?

Dallas MarksApril 30, 2026August 11, 2026
WebiJavaGeddon III: The Kerbocalypse
Administration & Security

WebiJavaGeddon III: The Kerbocalypse

Dallas MarksApril 23, 2026April 23, 2026
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Odds and Ends

Dave Rathbun’s World Famous Cookie Recipe

Dallas MarksMarch 19, 2026March 20, 2026
Avoiding the Big Mess
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Avoiding the Big Mess

Dallas MarksOctober 19, 2009September 22, 2016

Training is a critical ingredient in SAP BusinessObjects universes.

User Groups & Conferences

2009 SAP BusinessObjects User Conference

Dallas MarksOctober 18, 2009

Making my way to the 2009 ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference

Getting ORGanized
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.

Tron: Legacy
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, 2009October 16, 2026

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…

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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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