Besides writing here on my personal blog, I’ve written articles for other publications including ASUG, the Diversified Semantic Layer, EV Technologies, Global Knowledge, the SAP Community, and others. Some of the articles no longer exist in their original form and have been sourced from the Internet Archive. Check them out.
If you are interested in having me write for your publication, contact me at dallas AT dallasmarks DOT com.
SAP Community
Formerly known as the SAP Community Network or SCN. You can follow me on the SAP Community at dallas.marks.
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade – October 2024, October 23, 2024
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade – July 2020, July 8, 2020
- Preparing for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.3, February 27, 2020
- Which Browser is Best for SAP Analytics?, February 14, 2019
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade – February 2019, February 6, 2019
- Platform Support Tool, Back for an Unlimited Time, August 30, 2018
- The Fate of the Universe Depends on You, Part 3, March 16, 2018
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade – February 2018, February 1, 2018
- What I learned from Lightning McQueen about being an SAP Mentor, June 26, 2017
- ASUG Developer Tools Day 2016, October 25, 2016
- The Fate of the Universe Depends on You, Part 2 of 2, September 27, 2016
- The Fate of the Universe Depends on You, Part 1 of 2, September 26, 2016
- Recap of the ASUG Kentucky Chatper Meeting (September 15, 2016) at NKU, posted September 20, 2016
- Thoughts on the SAP Digital Boardroom, July 6, 2016
- Celebrate the Small Stuff Along the Road to BI Maturity, July 5, 2016
- What I saw at the SAP BusinessObjects Cloud Pre-Sales Workshop, June 20, 2016
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Upgrade – May 2016 (SAPPHIRE Edition), May 25, 2016
- A Brand New Day for SAP Analytics in St. Louis, USA, May 25, 2016
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4 Upgrade – January 2016, January 12, 2016
- Introducing the SAP Marketplace in Web Intelligence 4.1 SP06, October 18, 2015
- Is There Room On Your Bookshelf for Web Intelligence, Fourth Edition?, October 16, 2015
- Recap of the ASUG Kentucky Chapter Meeting (September 18, 2015) at NKU, September 29, 2015
- Waiting for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.2, September 2, 2015
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade – June 2015, June 15, 2015
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Upgrade – May 2015 (SAPPHIRE Edition), May 13, 2015
- Which SAP Analytics Conference Should I Attend?, January 9, 2015
- SAP Support for Internet Explorer 11 Can Head Off Security Woes, May 1, 2014
- What I learned about being an SAP rock star from Van Halen, June 22, 2012
- Browser Envy, Revisited, October 18, 2011
- Browser Envy, March 24, 2011
- See all my SAP Community articles
EV Technologies
Various articles about SAP BusinessObjects. Thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for historical web pages.
- Better Late Than Never – Upgrading to SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2, December 3, 2020
- SAP BusinessObjects in the Cloud, April 16, 2020
- Drawing Clouds (and Cloud Architectures), April 15, 2020
- SAP BusinessObjects Explorer and Xcelsius End of Life Doesn’t Have to Mean End of World, January 14, 2020
- Oracle Products Running Out of Support in 2020, November 5, 2019
- Microsoft Products Running Out of Mainstream Support in 2018, September 4, 2018
- SAP Analytics Tools Running Out of Mainstream Support in 2018, August 28, 2018
- Integrating Tableau Server into SAP Analytics Hub, August 14, 2018
- Web Intelligence Users – It’s Time To Unplug Java, May 29, 2018
- Unlocking the Secrets of SAP Lumira Discovery 2.1, February 2, 2018
- SAP BusinessObjects Support for Java 9, December 4, 2017
- CCleaner Compromised, September 19, 2017
- SAP Analytics Extensions for iOS now in Apple App Store, August 17, 2017
- When You Still Have Desktop Intelligence, May 23, 2017
- SAP Continues to Show Love to Live Office, May 17, 2017
- Improve Customer Satisfaction with BI Platform Monitoring, April 25, 2017
- At Your Service – meet the four new services in SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2, March 9, 2017
- Don’t You (Forget About Java), March 7, 2017
- SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.2 – You’ve Got Notifications, February 23, 2017
- What Would YOU Do with Eight Cores of SAP IQ?, February 20, 2017
- Loving Live Office, January 4, 2017
- Love Lumira? It’s time to love the Information Design Tool, December 7, 2016
- The Fate of the Universe Depends on You, October 4, 2016
- Better Mobile BI by Using the Configuration Server, August 3, 2016
- SAP BI 4.2 is finally here! Time to #askSAP all your questions, May 31, 2016
- The BI Administrator’s Cockpit, April 18, 2016
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, January 2016, January 12, 2016
- I Love Lumira (and You Should, Too)!, November 24, 2015
- EV Technologies at SAP TechEd 2015, October 16, 2015
- Using the Best Ingredients in your SAP BI Implementation, September 29, 2015
- Are You Ready for Java 9?, May 15, 2015
- Supporting Multiple Versions of Java in your Enterprise, December 15, 2014
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, December 2014, December 9, 2014
- EV Technologies’ Sherlock Can Accelerate your SAP BI4 Migration, June 10, 2014
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, June 2014, aka What I learned at SAP SAPPHIRE 2014 about the future of SAP BI4, Lumira, and SAP Analytics, June 9, 2014
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, April 2014, April 8, 2014
- SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Support Pack 3, March 28, 2014
- Are You Ready for Java 8?, March 24, 2014
- Getting Somewhere with Sybase SQL Anywhere and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1, January 13, 2014
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, January 2014, January 6, 2014
- SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 Support Pack 2, November 22, 2013
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, September 2013, September 5, 2013
- SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 now in General Availability (GA), August 29, 2013
- 2013 NKU Business Intelligence Summit for Higher Education, August 12, 2013
- SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Support Pack 7, August 2, 2013
- Is Web Intelligence Unsafe?, July 29th, 2013
- My 10 Steps to get to BI4 – #3, User Adoption June 10, 2013
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, June 2013, June 7, 2013
- SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Support Pack 6, April 30, 2013
- State of the SAP BusinessObjects BI4 Upgrade, January 2013, January 14, 2013
- How to Disable the SAP BusinessObjects Explorer iOS Password, January 10, 2013
- SAP Updates Minimum Hardware Requirements for BI 4.0, December 19, 2012
- Web Intelligence Default Paper Size, December 3, 2012
- The Future of Web Intelligence and Java, October 29, 2012
- Future Pack 3 (SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Feature Pack 3), June 27th, 2012
- Reinventing the Business Intelligence Upgrade, June 27th, 2012
- See all my EV Technologies articles
Global Knowledge
Training series for SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.x. Thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for historical web pages.
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- Training: What BI Architects and Administrators Need to Know about SAP BusinessObjects BI 4, January 12, 2016
- Training: You’re Upgrading to SAP BI 4.1, Now What?, December 8, 2015
- Training: Preparing Your Universe Design Staff for SAP’s Information Design Tool, September 17, 2015
Diversified Semantic Layer
A podcast devoted to all things SAP BusinessObjects. Thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine for historical web pages.
- The Future of SAP BusinessObjects Explorer, September 7, 2016
- Analytics in the Cloud, December 10, 2015
- Prime Time Lumira, July 22, 2015
- Run Simple, July 2, 2014
- Unstructured Geek Analysis video interview, March 2014
- 2013 ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference (SBOUC 2013) Live from the ASUG News Studio, October 2013
- Co-locating ASUG SBOUC and SAP TechEd (now dCode) podcast, October 2013
- ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference wrap-up podcast, September 2013
- SAP Mobile BI Update podcast, July 2013
- State of the Dashboard podcast, April 2012
- SAP Insider BI2012 live podcast, March 2012
- 2012 ASUG SAP BusinessObjects User Conference Live from the ASUG News Studio, October 2012
- Getting Educated SAP-Style podcast, August 2011
- Planning the SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 Upgrade podcast, August 2011
- see all my Diversified Semantic Layer podcasts
Americas’ SAP User Group (ASUG)
- ASUG Remembers Volunteer Darren Hites, February 9, 2019
Notable and Quotable
Unfortunately, many of these articles were captured by the Internet Archive.
- Collaboration Leads to a ‘Comprehensive Guide’ on BusinessObjects Web Intelligence, ASUG News, October 24, 2014
- SAP and Microsoft: The Frenemies’ Next Partnership is in the Cloud, ASUG News, May 20, 2014
- A Twitter Guide for #SBOUC2013: Follow the Smart, Snarky and Prolific, ASUG News, September 5, 2013
- SBOUC 2012 Wrap-Up: BusinessObjects Passion on Display, ASUG News, September 14, 2012
- SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards Roadmap: Unveiled and Inspected, ASUG News, April 19, 2012
- Security Access Concerns for BusinessObjects Administrators to Tackle, an interview with Scott Wallask at SAP Experts, December 2011
- Waiting on SAP, User Communities Fix SAP BusinessObjects Browser Woes, ASUG News, November 1, 2011
- Inside SAP’s Product-Naming Strategies, ASUG News, September 6, 2011