What is MapReduce?

MapReduce is a software framework introduced by Google to support distributed computing on large data sets on clusters of computers . The framework is inspired by map and reduce functions commonly used in functional programming, although their purpose in the MapReduce framework is not the same as their original forms. MapReduce libraries have been written in C++, Java, Python and other programming languages.  Wikipedia rules! Read more…

BI Industry, Open Source Hadoop, Hive, MapReduce

With over 10,000 customers this Swedish firm is quickly making its way up the Gartner Magic Quadrant.  By plying the underserved departmental niche they are capturing the hearts and minds of business users.  QlikTech received the highest score when asked weather the vendor is viewed as being successful in the organization.  Traditional vendors like MicroStrategy should be concerned with the passion QlikView customers have shown.  Passionate customers evangelize to their peers and soon you may end up seeing an excel like effect. Read more…

BI Industry, MicroStrategy Gartner, QlikTech

Yes, this post is several days late, but that’s what happens after you spend a week in Vegas, lol.  As I said before this was my first time participating in customer events at world.  It was a great networking opportunity for our small community of MicroStrategists.  I had the pleasure of meeting folks from Liberty Mutual, AMICA, Facebook, Disney, Visa, Aster Data and many more.  Oh yah, Tina Turner was there! Read more…

MicroStrategy in-memory bi, look and feel, microstrategy 9, microstrategy world

Here’s a short list of some very interesting features announced at World:

1. In-Memory ROLAP
2. Departmental and workgroup oriented BI
3. Custom derived elements driven by ajax (you can basically build a consolidation from web by highlighting rows and right mouse clicking).
4. Extreme Ajax: The control panels are now mostly implemented with clientside javascript which gives everything a lighter look and feel as well as faster performance.
5. Ability to fully customize graph reports from web.
6. Drill anywhere from page by and graph reports
7. Way better looking prompt layout and ability to create prompts and filters from web.
8. Dashboard templating.
9. Detailed object management with journaling.  Better SOX support.
10. Ability to synch independently developed metadatas into a single metadata.

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MicroStrategy microstrategy 9, microstrategy world, orion

If you use Narrowcast to produce any of your dashboards you probably know that the output is in an IE specific format known as MHT (Mime HTML). The problem with this is that the dashboards only work with internet explorer and if you want to deploy it via a portal or do something creative with the components you really cant unless you have zero firefox users. Even with zero firefox users extracting components will allow for greater flexibility. Read more…

Dashboards flash, mht, mhtripper