Special Events
MicroStrategy Mid-Market Reseller Training
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
All Mid-Market Resellers are invited to attend this sales training session. Designed to highlight best practices in building a resell pipeline, our agenda will cover corporate positioning, techniques for delivering product demonstrations, and improving the sales cycle. You'll leave with new ideas, and information on the presales and marketing resources available to you.
MicroStrategy Testing Day – Certification Exams Administered
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | 1:00pm - 6:00pm
Get certified at MicroStrategy World! This year, MicroStrategy Education will allow any individual who has pre-requisite skills and knowledge to take written certification exams at MicroStrategy World. Pre-registration with Education Services is required.
OEM Partner Briefing
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | 1:00 PM - 10:00 PM
The OEM Partner Briefing will bring together all of MicroStrategy’s OEM Partners to share information specific to our OEM Partners. This session will include a MicroStrategy corporate update, a technology deep-dive on OEM-specific features in our upcoming release, best practices presentations from two existing partners, and a discussion on how you can leverage MicroStrategy’s educational offerings to further your own customer education needs. Following this session, we invite all of our OEM Partners to join us for dinner and further discussion.
Agenda for OEM Partner Briefing:
1:00 – 1:15 Introductions
1:15 – 1:45 Education Offerings
1:45 – 3:15 Technology Update
3:15 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 4:15 SaaS Partner Best Practices Presentation – Activant
4:15 – 5:00 Behind the Firewall Partner Best Practices Presentation - Clarabridge
5:00 – 6:00 MicroStrategy Corporate Update (Sanju Bansal, COO, MicroStrategy)
7:00 – 10:00 Dinner (Location TBD)
MicroStrategy World 2009 Welcome Reception
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Welcome to MicroStrategy World 2009! Join industry partners, peers, and MicroStrategy Executives for drinks and hors d’oeuvres in the Exhibit Hall. Featured exhibitors will showcase their products and technologies at this important networking event – don’t miss it!
MicroStrategy Partner Executive Dinner – Invitation Only
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | 7:30pm
Select partner executives will be invited to join key MicroStrategy Sales Management and Alliance organization representatives for an exclusive dinner. After your dinner, head over to PURE Nightclub to enjoy the Conference Party. Please contact your alliance manager for additional details.
MicroStrategy World 2009 Conference Party
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | 9:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Location: PURE Nightclub
Wednesday night, the place to be is PURE Nightclub! Please join us for an amazing opportunity to mingle with industry peers, sponsors, and MicroStrategy executives. This Las Vegas hot spot is renowned for its pulsating lights, luxurious décor, and some of the hottest music mixes on the club scene. Don’t miss this fabulous opportunity to indulge yourself with an unforgettable experience!
MicroStrategy 2009 Best Practices in Business Intelligence Awards
Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Each year at MicroStrategy World, leading organizations are recognized for achieving outstanding business performance with their MicroStrategy-based business intelligence applications. The MicroStrategy 2009 Best Practices in Business Intelligence Awards will recognize excellence in the following areas:
- Individual Excellence in Business Intelligence
- Enterprise Deployment
- Data Scalability
- User Scalability
- Extranet Deployment
Join us for the award ceremony and hear insights from the recipients on their successful business intelligence deployments.
Agile Data Warehousing with Integrated Sandboxing
Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 3:00pm – 4:00pm
Featuring: Oliver Ratzesberger, Senior Director Architecture & Operations, Cloud Computing, Analytics as a Service, eBay; Stephen Brobst, Chief Technology Officer, Teradata Corporation
The demand for more agility in data warehouse implementations is emerging as a sure sign of maturity in the industry. With methodologies and best practices that are now well established and generally agreed upon by industry gurus, we have sometimes forgotten how to act with the urgency that is reminiscent of earlier days. The philosophy of the “Agile Data Warehousing” techniques described in this workshop is borrowed from the corresponding deployment of “Agile Software Development” in organizations that have been so successful over the past several years. We show how agile techniques can be effectively adapted to data warehousing with specific development techniques and real-world experience at eBay.
CTO Exchange: High Availability in the BI Ecosystem
Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM
Featuring the Chief Technology Officers from MicroStrategy, Teradata, and Informatica
Organizations increasingly value business intelligence as a mission-critical component of their business processes and IT infrastructure. In a pervasive BI environment where insight is delivered to a wide range of users via the intranet and extranet, it is expected for every component of the system to be highly available and fully capable of recovering from system outages. The CTOs from MicroStrategy, Teradata, and Informatica will present the core tenets in implementing high availability and disaster recovery into the business intelligence ecosystem.
Regional Networking Receptions
Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Once the track sessions are over on Thursday, don’t miss your Regional Networking Reception! Stop by to enjoy light refreshments as well as to meet local peers and MicroStrategists from your region. Check the listings near the MicroStrategy World Registration and Information Desk to find out the room location of your Regional Networking Reception.
Technology Futures Presentation
Friday, January 16, 2009 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
MicroStrategy Chief Technology Officer Jeff Bedell and other senior members of the MicroStrategy Technology team will preview upcoming product releases for 2009 and beyond. Learn more about MicroStrategy’s research and development initiatives for the platform.
If you attend MicroStrategy Technology Futures Day, you will learn about upcoming product releases, our product strategies, and other proprietary information. You will be required to sign and execute a Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) (zipped file) to gain admittance to the MicroStrategy Technology Futures session.
Premium Support Customer Breakfast – Invitation Only
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | 8:00am – 9:00am
Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 8:00am – 9:00am
Friday, January 16, 2009 | 8:00am – 9:00am
Wake up with the Premium Support Team! From 8:00am – 9:00am each morning, enjoy a full breakfast while you network with Premium Support Engineers, MicroStrategy executives, and other Premium Support customers at this special, invitation only event. After breakfast, join the rest of the MicroStrategy World attendees at the General Session.
Premium Support Customer Badge required for admittance.
