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?

MicroStrategy bugs, hotfix, upgrade

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.

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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…

BI Industry, MicroStrategy features, free microstrategy

I went to QlikView (QV) training last week and I am sure some people might be wondering how it stacks up against MicroStrategy just as I was curious. Well, for starters I should say I am impressed with its presentation layer (a.k.a the reporting layer). Its very sleek and crisp and the whole graph building and design is much easier and very intuitive as compared to MicroStrategy (MSTR). Read more…

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There are a number of ways to organize user access and privileges.  For every expert you’ll get a slightly different opinion.  However, if you approach the problem from the perspective of efficient user administration and license management there are only few optimal solutions. Read more…

MicroStrategy, Process license, license manager, user groups

Anonymous sources indicate the shutdown of the San Diego office which was primarily responsible for the MicroSoft Office integration plugins.  Additional layoffs on the sales side is expected.  I guess this is no big surprise given the current economic conditions and taking into account the consecutive quarters of earnings decline. Read more…

MicroStrategy cfo, resigns

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…

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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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