Since MicroStrategy is primarily consumed via the Web, there is a unique opportunity to embed some extra value by slipping HTML into little pockets of a report. While the HTML Container for Documents is obviously designed to do just that, you can also sneak it into Attributes which can help solve some pretty neat problems. Today I'll talk about how HTML Attributes work and a few use cases.
Business Intelligence just got personal with MicroStrategy Cloud Personal
Date: 13-10-2011
Author:
Bit Software
MicroStrategy Cloud Personal is a free service that lets you visualize your data easily. MicroStrategy Cloud Personal uses MicroStrategy’s fast, reliable and secure Cloud Intelligence infrastructure. There is no software to install or manage. You can upload and analyze your data in minutes. No more waiting for support from your IT department!
With MicroStrategy Cloud Personal you’re up and running in a few clicks. Anyone can do it. And more important, you’re in control. Cause Cloud Personal is 100% self-service: no lines, no waiting, and no back-and-forth with IT.
MicroStrategy Cloud Personal is also smarter than a spreadsheet. With just a few clicks, you can apply the power of visual intelligence to your data – graph it, slice it, filter it. With Cloud Personal, you can publish your dashboard to a blog or share it using Facebook or Twitter.
So, take a look and make Business Intelligence personal!
And if you are interested, you can register for a live webinar on Wednesday, November 2.
Beyond all disputes related to BI tools implementation success or failure, beyond the discussions about how flexible or inflexible is a BI solution, one thing can be certainty stated: business intelligence can do a lot of great things for organisations.
MicroStrategy Mobile for Android was released last Friday. I know the majority of smartphone users are on the Android platform. To that end, there's already been some good information made available, so I wanted to collect it and share it here.
There was some good information in this forum post:
Useful tech notes:
MicroStrategy World is the annual user group conference hosted by MicroStrategy. MicroStrategy 2012 will be the 6th conference I've attended and it remains to be the highlight of my year. There are incredible opportunities for education and networking, as well as whetting your appetite for future MicroStrategy enhancements. I'll discuss some of the many benefits of the conference to help convince you to attend if you've never been, and help unearth some annual gems of the show if you've been in the past and aren't sure if there's anything more for you. I learn an incredible amount every year, and some would say I'm already pretty knowledgable in all things MicroStrategy.
During my years of industrial marketing and sales, I learned that there is a big difference between corporate information and Strategic Knowledge. Corporate information usually consists of internal raw data while Strategic Knowledge is the business wisdom necessary to achieve profitable growth consistently. Although internal data is necessary to manage logistic or tactical areas like, supply chain, manufacturing, accounts receivable, transportation, accounts payable or customer service; it’s far from enough to perform marketing and sales management jobs effectively, namely increasing market share, revenue and ultimately net profit.
The reason is simple, internal data is a by-product of the order entry system (ERP), designed to ship orders on time; not to build a strategic data base for marketing use.
Unfortunately, most Business Intelligence (BI) implementations populate sophisticated BI software with just internal raw data from the ERP.
This is only half of the story because ERP data does not usually contain competitive or market intelligence. This is the reason why BI usually does not provide the immediate strategic analysis and direction necessary to grow the businesses, leaving Marketing and Sales teams struggling to find the information they need to increase profitability.
Typically, after Sales or Marketing run BI reports several times and they keep seeing the wrong structure or hierarchy in their customers, markets, segments and territories, they stop using BI and continue making decisions the old fashion way: based on intuition.
by Bill Cabiro and Strat-Wise LLC
„Please visit their web site at www.strat-wise.com for additional articles and resources on the strategic use of Business Intelligence and Analytics”
We will be present at „Meat Factory” Fair, on October 20th, at Romexpo
Date: 27-09-2011
Author:
Bit Software
BITSoftware will participate at the first edition of the „Meat Factory” Fair, which will take place at Romexpo central pavilion between October 19th and October 23rd, 2011. On October 20, 2011, during the symposium "Computerization - sustainability and traceability solution for the benefit of Romanian products",we will present our integrated solutions for business management and advanced reporting (Socrate ERP and Socrate BI), helping companies to enhance productivity and to achieve their long-term growth targets.
Here's a quick tip to follow up with Answering Prompts via URL API. If you need to get the Object ID of an Attribute or Metric dynamically, you can use this syntax:
I read a lot about BI implementations failure. I wrote myself an article about it few months ago. But I have a question: what a BI implementation need to succeed? I ask this question also to the members of Business Intelligence Professionals on LinkedIn.
And after reading almost 400 comments, I was able to make a short list of 5 things that will help a BI implementation process to succeed:
1. The presence of a Good Business Analyst who understands business and who has a zeal for technology.This is a role that can bridge gap between functional experts and IT- BI experts.
2. A Good Dimensional models with flexibility to enhance future requirements. Basically well thought out models expecting future rquirements.
3. Requirements understanding between data modelers, data integrators and reporting people.
4. A proper resource and project management.
5. User friendly, self-help oriented and designed for the users and not for IT experts, because constantly needing an IT person to run SQL, MDX or complex reports is a slow and unproductive process for everyone.
If all the 5 are there, no project will fail... At least this is the experts opinion.
Hiring resources is easy. Hiring good resources is hard, especially when you need to make that determination by asking general questions. With the cost of a bad hire so high, many groups or organizations can't risk a bad hire, though many don't set themselves up for success. They ask generic or pointed questions that are often definition driven or to tell stories about their past. A candidate's charisma usually shows through more than anything, and while that's an important quality, it's not the only quality. More often than we'd like, the person we hire isn't the person we thought were were getting.
While the Interview Questions I've posted before are more geared towards finding the qualities I'm interested in (hint: textbook MicroStrategy recitation isn't one of them), this post is geared towards actually testing an individual. Ideally, you'd still do the face to face question based interview and if you feel good about the candidate, you can give them this hands on test. Just setup a machine with the Tutorial project loaded on a local or development IServer. There are a few places where you'll need to do some initial setup before you introduce the candidate, and I've outlined those. I've also broken it out into three posts depending on what level of skills you're interested in: Developer, Admin, Architect. You would sit down with the candidate, explain the requirement, and watch them work. You'll get more information form a few minutes of one of these sessions than from days of face to face interviews.
