Using sophisticated widgets like Microchart can be very difficult and time consuming without proper documentation. I checked the read me, release notes, and knowledge base with little luck. Although there are on screen error messages which was useful when creating sparkline charts, they dont help much in creating a bullet graph. Read more…
It has been long time waiting for new feature in the MicroStrategy Product suite namely Multi Source Data and IN-Memory-BI (Published dataset). Although i could hardly contain my excitement to see these feature in MicroStrategy, there is fine print to the news. Below are few of the architectural issue I envision customers will face. Read more…
How often do you have to create MicroStrategy projects every week, complete from schema objects all the way to fancy Flash dashboards? If so, for what purpose? MicroStrategy is relatively easy to deploy, but no sane person would want to create one complete MicroStrategy project every week, 52 weeks a year. The purpose of this article is to present some tips to cut this project creation effort from (usually) one week to half a day, so this doesn’t become the poor guy’s full-time job. Read more…
Self Service B.I is a model where end users create reports from scratch independently of the IT team. Several B.I vendors advertise / sell their product highlighting Self Service B.I as one of the features. Prospects are thrilled at the thought of owning a tool that will magically reduce IT costs by transferring B.I reporting directly to the business side. Read more…