We currently have an opening for a contract Sr Business Analyst at a Fortune 500 client in Sunnyvale, CA.
Job Description:
-interface with business users to determine key metrics for high visibility sales dashboards
-help business users fully utilize the capabilities of dashboards
-translate business needs into dashboard or report features
-this is a contract position at a fantastic south bay company Read more…
I recently discovered a feature thats actually been around since MicroStrategy 8.1 called ‘Links.’ It basically allows you to add links to other reports from a regular grid report while dynamically passing prompt answers. Its basically the “drilling” feature thats been used in dashboards for awhile now. Read more…
Its been a while since we last updated the blog. The whole team has been busy with our latest client, PayPal/eBay. As I mentioned in a tweet a while back we’ve been tapped to develop a high performance self-service bi environment. To meet the goals of the project we will be using almost every single feature in MicroStrategy 9! Some interesting things we’re doing: Read more…
Has anyone done this already? If so, can you share with us how your transition went and if there were any major roadblocks or issues along the way?
I just listened to this webinar from Greenplum. It basically describes their EDC platform (Enterprise Data Cloud) and how it enables self service bi running on commodity hardware. One central theme is getting data into the hands of business users as fast as possible by giving them their own space and resources to prototype data. I’m heartened to hear thought leaders in data warehousing like Mark Dunlap of Evergreen Technologies promoting the idea of fork lifting data from source systems and deploying atypical approaches to developing BI. Read more…
Information Week article describing Gartners presentation on “BI”g Discrepancy. Many of the points they discuss are along the lines of my previous post, especially their points on “personal data sandboxes” and “data discovery environments.”
Workgroup or departmental business intelligence solutions are gaining traction in the market. Many business units are taking control of their BI destiny by building custom reporting systems, often consolidating data from multiple source systems including the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). This is further evidenced by the success of QlikTech’s QlikView product which has gained the most notoriety in this space and new entrants including Microsoft’s Gemini and LyzaSoft’s Lyza. Even traditional vendors are starting to make a play for this segment of the market, most notably MicroStrategy. Gartner believes “that despite the inherent risk in silo perpetuation, workgroup BI’s light-touch nature will prove attractive in a recession.” Read more…
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Interesting how there been a 35% increase in MicroStrategy related jobs since Jan 08 through 2009. The sharpest growth seem to have happened after the market crashed. I’m not sure how reliable this data is because it seems quite contrary to what you would assume and it doesn’t align with what I have observed.
Thats right, you heard right, its not a typo folks. They just announced the offering of a limited free version. Hence, the reason for the quotes around the word free. So what do we get with the free version? Read more…