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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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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