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July 2026 Recap – What I Wrote for Speak BO

Dallas MarksAugust 3, 2026August 3, 2026
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SAP for Me and You: Mostly Me, Hopefully You Too

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What an Airbus A380 Toilet Test Taught Me About Web Intelligence Data Mode

Dallas MarksJuly 14, 2026July 14, 2026
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Using Your Influence – How to Turn Your Ideas into Real Product Improvements

Dallas MarksFebruary 17, 2026August 8, 2026
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Getting Serious in the Sandbox

Dallas MarksNovember 18, 2025February 13, 2026
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SAP Should Join the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI)

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Hey Jude, or Advice to a Lonely BusinessObjects Professional

Dallas MarksOctober 25, 2024February 22, 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?

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WebiJavaGeddon III: The Kerbocalypse

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Dave Rathbun’s World Famous Cookie Recipe

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Business Objects Security and Advanced Rights

Dallas MarksMarch 16, 2009March 18, 2026

I’m teaching BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.0/3.1: Administration and Security (course number SA210V3.1) this week. This is the first of three…

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Information Dashboard Design by Stephen Few

Dallas MarksMarch 8, 2009April 21, 2017

A book review of Stephen Few’s Information Dashboard Design.

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Displaying Web Intelligence Date Prompts using Built-in Functions

Dallas MarksMarch 7, 2009

Using Web Intelligence functions to display date prompt values.

Xcelsius Xcitement: Ignited or Xtinguished?
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Xcelsius Xcitement: Ignited or Xtinguished?

Dallas MarksMarch 3, 2009February 18, 2026

Should I love or hate Xcelsius?

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Displaying Images on Web Intelligence Reports

Dallas MarksFebruary 28, 2009March 20, 2026

How to display images on a Web Intelligence report.

Six Years of Business Intelligence
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Six Years of Business Intelligence

Dallas MarksFebruary 10, 2009

Looking back at six years of SAP BusinessObjects.

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Living on the Edge

Dallas MarksJanuary 24, 2009

I recently helped a customer upgrade from the original BusinessObjects Edge Series (XI R2 vintage) to BusinessObjects Edge Series 3.0…

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Business Objects ESD, R.I.P.

Dallas MarksJanuary 23, 2009August 8, 2026

More changes are in store for Business Objects customers and partners.

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BusinessObjects.com, R.I.P.

Dallas MarksJanuary 17, 2009August 8, 2026

This week, SAP announced that Business Objects was no longer a separate company and was instead SAP Business Objects, a…

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Save Me!

Dallas MarksJanuary 7, 2009April 28, 2017

One of the primary topics in the SA210 Administration and Security course (formerly known in its XI R2 incarnation as…

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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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