Best Practices in Business Intelligence: MicroStrategy World 2008 User Conference - January 14-17

Track 1:	Reporting, Analysis, & Monitoring In these introductory sessions, end users and BI project managers will learn how to leverage MicroStrategy to satisfy the unique requirements of different end user communities and business intelligence applications. Through business-focused case studies, attendees will learn how to use MicroStrategy to report, analyze, and monitor their data.
	1 State-of-the-Art Dashboards for Managing and Monitoring Business Performance
	2 Business Intelligence for the Mobile Workforce – MicroStrategy Mobile
	3 Easy Intelligence for Every Excel®, PowerPoint®, and Word® User – MicroStrategy Office
	4 BI Solutions for Cube Databases
	5 Best Practices in Educating Developers and End Users
	6 Data Mining and Advanced Analysis for Your BI Applications
	7 Taking Advantage of 64-bit Business Intelligence
	8 Monitoring Business Performance with Alerts and Proactive Report Delivery
	9 Speed-of-Thought Analytics with MicroStrategy OLAP Services
Track 2:	Dashboarding, Reporting, and Advanced Visualizations Power users and report developers learn tips and techniques in this track for creating pixel-perfect enterprise reports, dashboards, and scorecards with MicroStrategy. Through demonstrations and examples, attendees will learn how to build dynamic dashboards, banded enterprise reports and composite real time BI applications using MicroStrategy.
	1 Building Composite Applications Using MicroStrategy and Adobe® Flex™ Builder™: Part 1
	2 Building Interactive Scorecards and Dashboards – MicroStrategy Report Services: Part 1
	3 Building Interactive Scorecards and Dashboards – MicroStrategy Report Services: Part 2
	4 Building Interactive Scorecards and Dashboards – MicroStrategy Report Services: Part 3
	5 Building Interactive Enterprise Reports – MicroStrategy Report Services: Part 1
	6 Building Composite Applications Using MicroStrategy and Adobe Flex Builder: Part 2
	7 Tips and Techniques for Optimizing Dashboard Development
	8 Tips and Techniques for Designing Beautiful Dashboards
	9 Building Interactive Enterprise Reports – MicroStrategy Report Services: Part 2
Track 3:	Advanced Development Application developers will learn sophisticated strategies and advanced techniques for designing more advanced BI applications. Through case studies and examples, attendees will learn how to build ad hoc, OLAP, and predictive analytical applications. Developers will learn how to use the advanced capabilities of MicroStrategy to build better BI applications to solve business problems.
	1 Designing Reports and Analysis from Unmodeled Data Sources with a Graphical Query Builder
	2 Effectively Measuring Performance with MicroStrategy Metrics
	3 Customer Segmentation and Cohort Analysis Using Data Marts and Advanced Metrics
	4 Taming Complex Data Modeling Challenges Using Logical Views
	5 Creating Reusable Report Books and Presentations with Refreshable Live Data
	6 Creating Advanced Information Delivery Applications Using MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server
	7 Predictive Analysis Using MicroStrategy Data Mining Services
	8 Data Mining: Integrating MicroStrategy with Predictive Models from Traditional Data Mining Tools
	9 Guided Knowledge Discovery Using Document Hyperlinks, Drill Maps, and User Hierarchies
Track 4:	Customizing the User Experience Customers often need to extend or modify ‘out of the box’ MicroStrategy functionality to meet the requirements of end users. Through business case focused sessions, developers and systems integrators will learn how to use the MicroStrategy SDK to customize the user experience, build advanced visualizations, and incorporate the latest Web standards and technologies.
	1 Popular Extensions and Customizations to the MicroStrategy BI Platform – MicroStrategy SDK
	2 Using MicroStrategy Web’s URL API – MicroStrategy SDK
	3 Building Web 2.0 Applications and Mashups with MicroStrategy’s Services Oriented Architecture
	4 Implementing Single Sign-On for Seamless Application and Data Access – MicroStrategy SDK
	5 Building Advanced Visualizations with the MicroStrategy SDK Visualization Framework
	6 Integrating MicroStrategy with Enterprise Portals
	7 Customizing the Look and Feel of MicroStrategy Web
	8 Building BI Web Services Solutions
	9 Advanced MicroStrategy Web Customizations
Track 5:	Driving Application Efficiency and Returns As organizations look to grow their BI applications from departmental to the enterprise level, it becomes important to design the BI system to support these increased user and application requirements. Architects and system administrators will learn how to design applications for user and data scale, including tips on optimization, charging back for use, change management, and monitoring. These techniques significantly reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the application.
	1 Automating Administration and Managing Large BI Environments – MicroStrategy Command Manager
	2 Tuning MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server for Maximum Performance
	3 Advanced Techniques in Using Aggregate Tables
	4 Tips and Tricks in Reducing Prompt Usage
	5 Change Management for Application Development – MicroStrategy Object Manager
	6 Managing MicroStrategy BI Systems
	7 Optimizing SQL Using VLDB Settings in MicroStrategy 8
	8 Ensuring Data and Report Integrity in Your BI Environment – MicroStrategy Integrity Manager
	9 Building BI Applications Accessing Multiple Data Sources
Track 6:	Deployment, Administration, and Performance Tuning BI applications are increasingly becoming mission-critical and require foolproof security, high uptime, and fast response times. MicroStrategy administrators will learn how to integrate MicroStrategy into existing IT environments and security systems, optimize performance, and enable fault tolerance, load balancing, and enterprise-scope administration.
	1 Designing Successful BI Aggregation Strategies
	2 Monitoring Your Applications and Usage – MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager
	3 Ensuring Data and Report Integrity in Your BI Environment – MicroStrategy Integrity Manager™
	4 Building Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliant Applications
	5 Tuning MicroStrategy Intelligence Server for Maximum Performance: Part 1
	6 Tuning MicroStrategy Intelligence Server for Maximum Performance: Part 2
	7 Create Proactive E-mail Alerts Containing Integrity Manager Monitoring and Analysis
	8 Monitoring Data Warehouse Performance and Operations with MicroStrategy
	9 Protecting BI Application Data Using Secure LDAP Authentication with MicroStrategy
Track 7:	Integrating MicroStrategy with Enterprise Applications Organizations have multiple mission critical IT systems such as BI, Portals, ERP, CRM, and multiple data sources. In order to gain a complete understanding of the business and to translate BI analysis into action, architects need to integrate business intelligence applications with these systems. Administrators and BI architects will learn how to best integrate MicroStrategy with other IT systems to ensure a seamless user experience.
	1 Survey of Data Warehouse Appliances
	2 Survey of Mapping and Geo-Spatial Technologies
	3 Survey of Enterprise Information Integration (EII) Technologies
	4 Successfully Migrating Other First Generation BI Implementations to MicroStrategy
	5 Using MicroStrategy in Corporate Portals
	6 Developing Business Intelligence Applications on Microsoft Analysis Services
	7 Build a Rich Internet Application/Visualization Live Using MicroStrategy and Adobe Flex Builder
	8 Developing Business Intelligence Applications for SAP BI
	9 Developing Business Intelligence Applications on Hyperion Essbase
Track 8:	Customer Best Practices: Reporting Solutions This track showcases MicroStrategy customers who have deployed innovative reporting, analysis, and dashboard monitoring solutions to achieve greater business benefits.
	1 Nordstrom: Performance Management Dashboards Using MicroStrategy 8.1
	2 Massachusetts General Hospital: Reporting and Dashboards Best Practices in Medicine
	3 Nygård International: Using MicroStrategy Mobile to Deliver BI to BlackBerry Smartphones
	4 MetLife: Integrating MicroStrategy Integrity Manager into MetLife’s Center of Excellence
	5 American Express: Best Practices in Requirements Gathering
	6 Metcash Australia: Performance Monitoring and Tuning Techniques Using MicroStrategy
	7 The University of Miami: Building a Successful BI Implementation on a Shoestring Budget
	8 C&S Wholesale Grocers: Developing Dashboards to Improve Supply Chain Collaboration
	9 Hannaford Bros. Co.: Evolving from Greenbar Reporting to Dashboarding – A Business Perspective
Track 9:	Customer Best Practices: Advanced Technical Topics Learn technical tips from leading MicroStrategy customers who will showcase the best practices and successful methodologies used in their MicroStrategy deployments.
	1 Porsche Cars North America: Leveraging MicroStrategy’s Statistical Functionality…
	2 MicroStrategy SAP Development and Integration
	3 TRX, Inc.: User Administration and System Monitoring with the MicroStrategy SDK
	4 Gaylord Hotels: Leveraging Clarabridge and MicroStrategy to Improve Customer Service
	5 Yum! Brands: Game Changing Performance with MicroStrategy and Netezza
	6 H&R Block Financial Advisors: Narrowcast Server Utilization for Intranet Performance
	7 Bluegreen Corporation: Customization Tips and Techniques for MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server
	8 MetLife, Inc.: How to Manage 3,000 Users with Two Business Application Owners
	9 Meredith Corporation: Integrated Analytics with MicroStrategy and KXEN
Track 10:	Customer Best Practices: Enterprise-Wide Solutions Learn how seasoned MicroStrategy customers have achieved business benefits by deploying business intelligence across the enterprise.
	1 Darden Restaurants: Keeping Users Up-to-Date with Changes to Their BI Environment
	2 Con-way Freight: Performance Management Through Business Intelligence
	3 XM Satellite Radio: Building a BI Environment to Meet High Customer Demands with Limited Resources
	4 Gucci Group: Analytical Applications Enabling Strategic and Tactical Decisions
	5 Corporate Express: 15 Proven Ways to Enhance Your MicroStrategy Implementation
	6 Catalina Marketing: Migrating to Universal 8.0 Through an Administrator’s Point of View
	7 Lowe’s Companies: Utilizing Best Practices to Manage and Monitor Lowe’s Enterprise BI Platform
	8 Adobe Systems: Empowering Management with Intelligent Workflow and Write-Back…
	9 Adobe Demo
	10 Monitoring and Improving Customer Responsiveness
Track 11:	Technical Advisory Services (TAS): Best Practices for Enterprise Customers MicroStrategy’s elite Technical Advisory Services consultants will share best practices in enterprise information strategy and BI deployment. Best Practices for Lowering Your Total Cost of Ownership » Take the Benchmarking Survey Now
	1 Best Practices for Lowering Your Total Cost of Ownership
	2 Supporting Ad Hoc Reporting Through a Self-Service Delivery Model
	3 Aligning BI Applications with Business Strategies
	4 Effective Testing and Data Quality Validation
	5 Capturing Business Processes in MicroStrategy Dashboards
	6 Best Practices in Organizational Alignment and End User Adoption of BI Solutions
	7 Best Practices in Project Release Management
	8 Strategies for Building a BI Delivery Architecture
	9 Best Practices in Infrastructure Design and Capacity Planning
Track 12:	Enterprise Partners: The Business Intelligence Spectrum MicroStrategy’s partners will discuss solutions and customer case studies for maximizing performance and ROI of BI and data warehouse investments that directly impact the bottom line.
	1 Microsoft Super Session: Connecting Information Workers with Line of Business Systems
	2 iOLAP: Executive Dashboards: Best Practices for Design and Rapid Development
	3 Syncsort: Data Integration: Tools vs. Solutions
	4 KXEN: Injecting Data Mining into the Corporate Bloodstream
	5 Pitney Bowes MapInfo: Exposing Your 'Wheres'
	6 WhereScape: The Value of Prototyping in Building Data Warehouses Used by MicroStrategy
	7 HP Neoview and MicroStrategy: Delivering ‘Next Generation BI’ Today
	8 Carpio Solutions: An Overview of Financial Planning Integrated with Business Intelligence
	9 CTO Exchange on Pervasive BI
Track 13:	Enterprise Partners: Best Practice Deployments Systems integrators, customers, and technology partners provide real-world case studies, discuss their specific methodology, and showcase their best practices for implementing MicroStrategy BI.
	1 Microsoft Super Session: Connecting Information Workers with Line of Business Systems
	2 Greenplum: MySpace Combines Breakthrough Data Warehousing and BI to Transform its Business
	3 SPSS: Unlocking the Hidden Value in Your BI Investment Through Predictive Analytics
	4 DataFactZ: Change Management Analytics: Managing BI Changes in a High-Paced Business Climate
	5 QuantiSense: Retailing with Insight
	6 Visual Crossing: Using Visual Crossing Map Services to Deliver Interactive Map Analysis
	7 Southport Services Group: Using MicroStrategy Integrity Manager to Shorten Testing Cycles
	8 Netezza: Rethinking Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Possibilities
	9 CTO Exchange on Pervasive BI
Track 14:	Enterprise Partners: Delivering Maximum Value to Customers MicroStrategy technology partners, OEMs, and systems integrators share their insights, solution platforms, and implementation successes as they deliver optimal value to our joint customers’ BI initiatives.
	1 Microsoft Super Session: Connecting Information Workers with Line of Business Systems
	2 Sybase: The Analytics Server: Evolving Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Solutions…
	3 Ketera: Managing Corporate Spend in a Multi-Tenant Hosted Architecture
	4 Coradiant: Advanced Web API Customizations
	5 Coradiant Demo: Advanced Web API Customizations
	6 GoldenGate: Business Intelligence Requires Real-Time Data Today
	7 Longview Solutions: Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting: An Integrated BI Strategy
	8 Pinnacle Corporation: Practical Dashboard Use
	9 Marketing Direct: Single Sign-On and Third-Party Tool Integration Utilizing MicroStrategy Web
	10 CTO Exchange on Pervasive BI

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