Agenda

Experience the new MicroStrategy Web user interface that sets the standard for interactive data analysis and ease-of-use. Learn all about the improved usability, navigation, collaboration, and analytical capabilities.

Learn best practices on how easy it is to build effective and visually-appealing dashboards. This session will demonstrate the latest advances that MicroStrategy 9 brings for dashboard creation. Experience dashboard creation from a what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) interface.

See how to rapidly develop a BI application using the enhanced features of MicroStrategy Architect. MicroStrategy Architect simplifies and streamlines the project modeling process with the all new interactive and graphical interface.

MicroStrategy 9 gives business users and analysts the ability to perform sophisticated filtering and benchmarking over the Web. See how Derived Elements allows you to create Custom Attribute Calculations, Custom Attribute Groups, View Filters, Link Groups, and more.

Learn how to use MicroStrategy’s highly popular API to construct URL calls and pass parameters through the URL itself. See how to execute a report or a document, automatically answer prompts by passing prompt answers in the URL, retrieve data in a custom XML format, and access other MicroStrategy Web pages such as History List and folder pages. Additionally, see how to use the URL API to plug MicroStrategy Web content into an external Web site, portal, or third-party application.

Increasingly, enterprise applications are adopting Web 2.0 techniques and concepts to create mini-programs, such as mashups, widgets, and gadgets that better serve business people’s needs. MicroStrategy 9 has evolved to support this business requirement using an SOA enabled through the MicroStrategy SDK Task Framework. Learn how to use the MicroStrategy SDK Task Framework to build rich Web 2.0 applications, Google applications, and Mashups.

MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is the architectural foundation of the MicroStrategy BI Platform. MicroStrategy 9 brings a large number of improvements in areas such as caching architecture, SQL optimizations, security, clustering, and 64-bits. This session focuses on some of the key technological enhancements that continue to make MicroStrategy Intelligence Server the industry’s most advanced, scalable, secure, and robust business intelligence server.

MicroStrategy Desktop Designer includes a graphical, ad hoc query building tool that allows users to create reports against data that has not been modeled through MicroStrategy Architect. That data can come from an operational database, data warehouse, or flat-files like Excel. Using a drag-and-drop graphical interface, learn how to define reports in terms of tables, columns, and joins instead of attributes and metrics. Experience the capabilities of Query Builder, including join types, mapping to attributes and metrics, and other features.

Listen to eBay discuss its best practices using MicroStrategy software, and how it leveraged its analytical BI implementation to develop an operational BI system that allows end-business users to react faster to business needs and strengthen customer service. Learn about eBay’s unique management framework to support a diverse, geographically distributed 3,000+ user community. This session will address BI development best practices, metadata management, enterprise management, and more.

Founded in 1995, eBay Inc. connects hundreds of millions of people around the world every day, empowering them to explore new opportunities and innovate together. eBay Inc. does this by providing the Internet platforms of choice for global commerce, payments, and communications. Since its inception, eBay Inc. has expanded to include some of the strongest brands in the world, including eBay, PayPal, Skype, StubHub, Shopping.com, and others.

In recent months, Meredith Corporation has started migrating from multiple grid reports containing detailed data, to more summarized, visual dashboards. Learn how Meredith was able to work with users to identify meaningful reports and convert them into more concise dashboards. Attendees will see live demonstrations of the original grid reports and the resulting dashboards. In addition, as part of this migration to visual representations of data, see how Meredith uses MicroStrategy advanced visualizations and custom built visualizations. See a demonstration of the advanced visualizations and learn how the custom visualizations were developed.

Meredith Corporation, headquartered in Des Moines, IA, is one of the nation’s leading media and marketing companies with businesses centering on magazine and book publishing, television broadcasting, integrated marketing, and interactive media. The Meredith Publishing Group features 25 subscription magazines – including Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies'' Home Journal, Family Circle, Parents, American Baby, Fitness, and More – and publishes over 200 special interest publications under approximately 80 titles.

Target will discuss its business intelligence implementation and best practices for scalable BI solutions using MicroStrategy. Hear about some of the key business benefits that Target’s BI solution has delivered to its end users. Learn how you can apply some of the Business and Technology lessons learned to your BI initiatives.

Target Corporation currently operates 1,685 Target stores in 48 states, and also has a fully integrated online business through Target.com.

A MicroStrategy customer since 1995, Bank of America has grown to become one of the world’s largest financial institutions. Learn about its BI best practices and lessons learned, and how its organizational structure has contributed to Bank of America’s business intelligence success. Bank of America will explain how MicroStrategy has played a major role in its business intelligence success, and will highlight their upcoming plans for leveraging MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards and Netezza.

Bank of America is one of the world’s largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses, and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management, and other financial and risk-management products and services.

In this unyielding economy, companies are evaluating IT projects with more scrutiny than ever before. Scarce funding is allocated only to projects that demonstrate significant results. Whether you’re just starting out or expanding an existing application, you need to not only show value, but also contain costs to meet your available budget. Get there quickly and you’ll be a hero. Fail to get there and you’ll be de-funded. In this session, we’ll describe a methodology to put you on the fast track to value. You’ll hear case studies about key companies in the financial, retail, and government industries that have implemented successful BI projects. We’ll review lessons learned, both good and bad, and talk about the challenges associated with implementing complex BI projects in a down economy.

Southport Services Group is a management and IT consulting company specializing in enterprise business intelligence. It offers a full-range of consulting services that help its customers design, develop, and deploy business intelligence solutions that convert data into actionable information.

More users. More queries. More reports. More data. Faster, easier, and lower-cost. All achievable with Sybase IQ, the industry’s leading column-oriented database. Sybase and MicroStrategy user, Examen, will present how Examen and other MicroStrategy users achieve multi-dimensional scalability while slashing server, storage, and administration costs using Sybase IQ.

Sybase is the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information.

More users. More queries. More reports. More data. Faster, easier, and lower-cost. All achievable with Sybase IQ, the industry’s leading column-oriented database. Sybase and MicroStrategy user, Examen, will present how Examen and other MicroStrategy users achieve multi-dimensional scalability while slashing server, storage, and administration costs using Sybase IQ.

Sybase is the largest enterprise software and services company exclusively focused on managing and mobilizing information.

MicroStrategy Web delivers more advanced functionality to the Web user. Discover how to build Prompts, Filters, Thresholds, and rich Graphs. Learn how to manage user creation and security roles.

MicroStrategy 9 delivers over 20 advanced visualizations that help enhance data comprehension and discovery. See how to use these advanced visualization widgets in scorecards and dashboards with MicroStrategy Report Services, even for offline analysis. Learn how to configure and interact with the HeatMap, Time Series Slider, Multimedia Player, Fisheye, Gauge, Cylinder, Thermometer, Stacked Area, and Interactive Bubble.

New in MicroStrategy 9, Internalization delivers multi-lingual versions of a single application. Internationalization of BI applications involves many aspects, including the interface, metadata objects (attribute names, descriptions, metrics), the data, data formatting (date, time, number), and even error messages. Come and see how users will experience a multi-lingual project. Learn processes and features required to design and maintain an internationalized project.

Using the new MicroStrategy Multisource Option, data from relational, multidimensional (cubes), operational, and even flat-files sources can be combined into a classic MicroStrategy grid report that can be used for a graph, enterprise report, or dashboard. Learn how to join data using "report as filter" to combine non-relational data with relational data. Also, learn how to combine relational data with non-relational data using MicroStrategy Architect in a single project.

New in MicroStrategy 9 is an Eclipse plug-in to create and upgrade customizations to MicroStrategy Web. This new plug-in understands and interprets the MicroStrategy Web architecture so you can create many customizations that do not require software coding. The new plug-in creates modular customization packages that can easily be deployed, updated, unapplied, and migrated to future versions. Learn and see how to create these modular customizations with the new MicroStrategy Web Customization Editor for Eclipse.

Learn about the new out-of-the-box authentication features in MicroStrategy 9. Understand trusted and integrated single sign-on (SSO) capabilities and discuss how MicroStrategy interacts with popular Web access management tools such as Tivoli and Site Minder. Enforce password security policies, including strong password requirements and account lockouts.

MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager analyzes your MicroStrategy Intelligence Server and project usage statistics using a MicroStrategy BI project. MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager includes new usage statistics, new reports, and new dashboards that provide enhanced operational detail. Learn how to use MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager’s analysis to identify tuning opportunities and remove unused reports.

Cohort analysis is an advanced analysis technique wherein a group of customers are evaluated over time. This style of analysis is commonly used in customer retention and promotion/response studies. Cohort analysis differs from normal trend analysis in that the same set of customers is represented across time periods. This presentation demonstrates how to use a combination of data marts and advanced metrics in MicroStrategy to achieve cohort analysis efficiently and effectively. Several real business examples will also be discussed.

MicroStrategy was chosen by the Internal Reporting team to replace its proprietary reporting platform because of three main reasons: performance, scalability, and the ability to do rapid development. A year into the project, MicroStrategy has been instrumental to the team’s success. Hear about the expansion of the exchange platform, and how new features are frequently being added to the product. Thanks to MicroStrategy, the team is able to do more and respond to business changes quicker with less staff.

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust.

Go behind the scenes and discover how the Hollywood studio implemented its enterprise BI solution for their Home Entertainment Data Warehouse initiative (aka HEDWay) that provides geo/demographic summary trends to detailed day/store/sku level sales that help uncover key business opportunities. Learn about their lessons learned in project momentum via branding, developing a common business language, data standardization efforts and their industry proven technology platform that includes MicroStrategy Web, Desktop, Narrowcast, Office, and Mobile. Paramount Pictures will also share a sneak-peek into the next chapter of their BI & Planning evolution.

Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment, is a unit of Viacom, a leading content company with prominent and respected film, television, and digital entertainment brands.

Lowe’s has a large enterprise BI implementation and adds new subject areas regularly. This session will walk attendees through a single project, from the initial request to production release, with a focus on providing enterprise business value beyond the sponsor’s goals. Consider this a discussion, not on project planning or development methodology, but on how to think about your business and data in a different way.

With fiscal year 2007 sales of $48.3 billion, Lowe’s Companies, Inc. is a FORTUNE® 50 company that serves approximately 14 million customers a week at more than 1,600 home improvement stores in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1946 and based in Mooresville, NC, Lowe’s is the second-largest home improvement retailer in the world.

Hear how Citi in-sourced and deployed a Global Reporting System to more effectively monitor and analyze corporate payment and commercial card activities, and how MicroStrategy was leveraged for this global BI application. Learn about the challenges, steps taken, and the benefits of building a well-architected infrastructure, facilitating access to users coming via CitiDirect and the various portals, and setting standards for the vendor environment. This presentation will also highlight lessons learned throughout the BI development and deployment process.

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management.

Carpio Solutions will discuss how to overcome current budgeting/planning/forecasting challenges with the GesFin™ CPM Suite for MicroStrategy. Attendees will learn how they can take performance management to the next level by leveraging GesFin to model complex, driver-based, formula-driven scenarios in real-time at every level of the organization.

Carpio Solutions is a global technology solutions company dedicated to improving the operational and financial performance for its customers through its business-focused software applications and specialized IT service offerings.

Solving important business problems through the widespread use of data requires seamless integration and an organized approach. To apply predictive analytics against these problems, you must address three major areas: capture, predict, and act. This session will demonstrate the use of SPSS predictive analytics in solving a business problem through a case study. Start by capturing complex opinions. Analyze all of the data – both structured and unstructured – and create a model to make predictions about new or unseen cases. Combine these models and their predictions with strategies for deployment in both business intelligence and real-time environments. Manage all phases of the predictive analytics approach. SPSS will show you how to drive real ROI through the use of predictive analytics.

SPSS Inc. is a leading worldwide provider of predictive analytics software and solutions.

Good business decisions require accurate, up-to-date information, and that information depends on the quality and timeliness of data processed across the enterprise. This presentation will reference a broad range of Capgemini client-side initiatives that leverage the unique combination of Capgemini’s Business Information Management professionals – their technical and domain-based consulting expertise – and MicroStrategy’s reporting and analysis capabilities. Speakers will address the relevance of the Capgemini and MicroStrategy approach in resolving the critical issues facing financial services companies today in such areas as enterprise risk management, customer information management, compliance, profitability analytics, distribution channel optimization, and asset management, among others.

Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology, and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies.

See and experience how MicroStrategy 9 analyzes data from SAP BI, Microsoft Analysis Services, and Hyperion Essbase. Learn how users can join data from multiple data sources and create reports and dashboards against these sources over the Web.

Experience the second part of the "Analyzing Data with Advanced Visualizations" presentation. Learn how to take advantage of the new and improved widgets, including Microcharts, Microcharts KPI mode, Bubble Grid, Data Cloud, Graph Matrix, Weighted List Viewer, RSS Reader, Funnel, Waterfall, and Calendar. Additionally, learn how to add and deploy customized visualizations, such as those available from the MicroStrategy Widget Library.

New in MicroStrategy 9, MicroStrategy Distribution Services delivers information on an alert or scheduled basis. See how this new product empowers end users and administrators to subscribe themselves and others to receive reports and dashboards. Learn about MicroStrategy Distribution Services’ multi-platform support, load balancing capabilities, configuration management via MicroStrategy Desktop, and comprehensive monitoring capabilities.

Learn how MicroStrategy Object Manager can effectively manage the BI application lifecycle – specifically developing, testing, and deploying BI metadata objects. Explore the new functionality, such as Packages, that allows you to bundle object definition changes into standalone files for easy migration.

MicroStrategy customers and partners have extended MicroStrategy BI functionality and integrated it with other IT systems. This session delivers a comprehensive look at a wide range of examples of customizations and extensions possible using the MicroStrategy SDK. Common examples include straight-forward look-and-feel changes, advanced visualizations, and incorporating write-back workflows.

Portals have become a primary choice to deploy enterprise-wide applications of any type. MicroStrategy 9 includes out-of-the-box portal integration for IBM Websphere, Oracle WebLogic, SAP Portals, and Microsoft SharePoint to BI application deployments. Additionally, MicroStrategy provides a Portal Integration Kit to easily and quickly deploy MicroStrategy BI content through any portal such as WSRP, JSR168, or open source portals. Learn important portal development techniques, including portlet extensibility, customizability, portlet to portlet communication, URLs, and SSO.

MicroStrategy Command Manager uses prebuilt text commands to develop scripts that can be used and reused to automate administration of the BI environment. Command Manager provides more than 250 commands in 45 BI application management areas to quickly create these scripts. These scripts can be executed from a graphical or command line interface. Learn how to create and use Command Manager scripts to effectively manage your MicroStrategy BI environment.

Learn how to increase your organization’s return on investment on BI initiatives by lowering total cost of ownership (TCO). Learn the largest cost components and which BI platform capabilities can save your organization the most money. Benchmark your application efficiency with other MicroStrategy customers. Discover next steps and resources that will help you enable your IT team deliver more business insight to the enterprise.

The Disney Interactive Media Group (DIMG) will discuss its best practices for the design and development of MicroStrategy 8.1 dynamic dashboards. This presentation will address business challenges; technical challenges; design and development best practices, tips and tricks; and key MicroStrategy TechNotes to read. In addition, a “First Time” Dashboard Implementation Methodology will be presented. Hear how The Walt Disney Interactive Media Group utilized MicroStrategy’s cutting-edge technology to deliver Pixel Perfect, professional, relevant reports and dashboards to its key business partners. Learn how its dashboards are providing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in areas such as online game subscriptions, Web site traffic, player activity and usage trends, summaries, rankings, and much more.

The Disney Interactive Media Group oversees the development and distribution of Disney-branded interactive digital media and entertainment across all digital platforms from game consoles to mobile devices to the Internet.

What timeless framework did Aristotle provide regarding Customer Relationship Management? What are four roles a company’s employees must play in order to create useful actions from analytical insight? Why is cross-departmental teamwork more important than analytical depth? Hear how a MicroStrategy dashboard can help you understand the relative importance of customer acquisition and retention. Marriott’s presentation will knit these ideas into a compelling narrative regarding the intersection of analytics and action.

Marriott International, Inc. is a leading lodging company with more than 3,100 lodging properties in the United States and 66 other countries and territories. The company is headquartered in Bethesda, MD, and has approximately 151,000 employees.

This session will demonstrate how Raley’s leverages MicroStrategy BI to deliver both structured Category Management reviews and ad hoc category analytics. Gain insight into the process, reports, and delivery methods used to facilitate an effective Category Management program at Raley’s.

Raley’s Supermarkets is a privately-owned supermarket chain that operates 130 stores under the Raley’s, Bel Air Markets, Nob Hill Foods, and Food Source banners in northern California and Nevada.

The challenge for all BI initiatives is to get the right information to the right person at the right time in a way that end users can understand it. KeyBank has taken on that challenge to deliver complex analytics in a way that is intuitively relevant to business decision makers. In the past year, KeyBank’s MicroStrategy platform has supported exponential data growth and now delivers analytic marketing content on a Netezza warehouse. Hear how KeyBank effectively leverages MicroStrategy’s metric trees, and leverages campaign effectiveness with statistical measures and longitudinal tracking, making the BI tool essential in the planning and calibration process. Achievements include the Web portal and its success in delivering content on a pull versus a push methodology.

KeyBank is a wholly owned subsidiary of KeyCorp, one of the nation’s largest bank-based financial services companies with assets of approximately $102 billion. Key companies provide investment management, retail and commercial banking, consumer finance, and investment banking products and services to individuals and companies throughout the United States and, for certain businesses, internationally.

How do you successfully weave business intelligence into everyday processes so that your entire organization makes more profitable decisions? QuantiSense will discuss how a business intelligence application can drive your company''''s unique processes, helping you build an organization that makes better, smarter decisions. Using examples from QuantiSense''''s work with its retail sector clients, the discussion will illustrate how business intelligence can become part of every user''''s daily business "Playbook," and how management can encourage standardized best practices decision making throughout your organization. The presentation will also feature a live demonstration.

QuantiSense is the leading provider of business intelligence and data warehousing applications exclusively for specialty retailers.

Economic, competitive, and regulatory pressures are driving organizations to make more effective use of data assets. Meanwhile, new technologies are enabling innovative approaches to data integration, data analysis, and fact-based decision making. This presentation will look at the new era of data warehousing and business intelligence.

HP, the world’s largest technology company, provides printing and personal computing products and IT services, software, and solutions that simplify the technology experience for consumers and businesses.

Discover a product that offers an alternative to the challenges of managing BI changes in a large-scale MicroStrategy implementation. Learn how to maximize productivity by effectively managing business demands and resource workload. Realize IT BI with built-in best practices for MicroStrategy development and configuration management. Slice and dice your resource efforts to create a view into your BI investment dollars.

DataFactZ is a professional services company that provides consulting and implementation expertise to solve the complex data issues facing many organizations in the modern business environment.

Advanced analytics is imperative to remain competitive. MicroStrategy 9 includes statistical, data mining, and predictive analytics that business users can employ to improve business decisions. Learn how to use MicroStrategy 9’s advanced analytics in your BI applications.

Creating professional looking dashboards with MicroStrategy does not require a graphic artist. Discover the new MicroStrategy Report Services interface for enhancing report and dashboard design. Learn best practices for using color schemes, layouts, and backgrounds that make dashboards appealing.

New in MicroStrategy 9, MicroStrategy OLAP Services delivers significantly enhanced analysis and performance with its new in-memory BI capabilities. Learn how to design Intelligent ROLAP Cubes that work with security filters and prompts to return reports lightning fast. Understand how Dynamic Sourcing automatically chooses the best cubes to fulfill report requests as quickly as possible. See how OLAP Services enhances analysis through drilling, derived metrics, filtering, derived elements, and report linking.

MicroStrategy 9 offers enhanced in-memory technology. This session explains how to utilize it to optimize your existing setup. See how the new technology fits into the existing technology stack. Learn how to achieve your optimization goals and what data to keep in-memory.

Want to modify MicroStrategy Web workflow, create new user actions, or customize the data presentation? The MicroStrategy Web architecture includes components such as events, beans, add-ons, and transforms to do just this. Employing specific use cases, learn how to use the MicroStrategy SDK to modify each of these components to meet your various business needs.

The MicroStrategy SDK Visualization framework, in its third version, provides deep integration with Adobe Flex Builder to create Flash mashups. These mashups can inject sophisticated BI into maps, store layouts, or any other graphical representation. See mashups examples. Learn how to build a Flash mashup from scratch.

MicroStrategy Integrity Manager automates data and report testing between a target and controlled BI environment and displays any discrepancies between them. Typical events that introduce intended and unintended changes into a BI environment include ETL changes, data loads, software upgrades, or application updates. MicroStrategy Integrity Manager automatically compares data output, SQL, graph output, Excel output, .pdf output, and performance execution statistics. See how MicroStrategy Integrity Manager identifies and displays potential errors. Learn how to create MicroStrategy Integrity Manager testing routines to examine your BI environment.

MicroStrategy continually invests in improving our SQL generation capabilities. Understand the latest enhancements to the VLDB settings and when and why you might chose to use them. Learn about the new MicroStrategy 9 VLDB settings that can provide over 50% improved query performance.

This presentation will showcase the MicroStrategy implementation at AEG, and how tight budgets and an aggressive four-week timeline made this project a remarkable success. Learn how AEG deployed BI across the enterprise to gain a unique view of the customer across 50 business units (a mix of sports, concerts, and arena development), and how they use MicroStrategy to identify cross-sell and up-sell opportunities to drive incremental revenue to the bottom line. Hear why BI today doesn’t have to be a significant IT investment and that companies with small projects should still undertake BI.

AEG Worldwide is one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world.

Hear why Silverton Casino chose MicroStrategy to anchor its BI initiatives and how their business analysts will be able to leverage daily reports and dashboards for greater insight into key performance measures across the company. This presentation will review the early challenges and successes they have achieved by deploying MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards across multiple areas of their business, including marketing promotions, hotel, and casino operations.

The Silverton Casino Lodge is a 60,000 square foot casino and hotel set in a mountain lodge in Enterprise, Nevada.

As one of the largest purchasers of alcohol beverages in the world, Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) has more supplier stress than many companies due to their broadly international product scope. In this session, LCBO will discuss how MicroStrategy has helped them to create collaborative relationships with suppliers, generate critical alerts, distribute strategic scorecards, and deliver breakthrough innovations for the mobile workforce.

The LCBO is a provincial government enterprise in Canada employing some 6,500 people, including part-time workers, with more than 600 stores across Ontario supplied by five regional distribution centres. More than 19,000 products are available to Ontario consumers through stores, special order programs, and catalogues.

In the last year, Republic Bank Limited has implemented a business intelligence solution built using MicroStrategy, HP Neoview, and QRMI (Quadrant Risk Management Inc.). The presentation will cover the business needs, the selection process, implementation progress to date, and lessons learned.

The Republic Bank Limited (RBL), headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago, is one of the leading financial institutions with subsidiaries across the Caribbean.

You’ve implemented business intelligence to get better visibility into your business. But what if your BI application can’t access all the enterprise data that you need, nor do so in a timely manner? In this session, we’ll discuss how data federation technology – data integration without replication – can improve the return on your BI investments. MicroStrategy and Composite’s data federation enables greater data breadth, virtualized data integration, and improved performance. In addition, MicroStrategy (bundled with Composite) will be introducing pre-built operational reporting solutions for packaged applications, starting with Oracle EBS, to its mid-tier channel. We’ll discuss how this solution delivers valuable reports that can be implemented quickly, at very low costs.

Composite Software is the leading independent provider of data virtualization software for IT and business professionals.

Vertica Systems will discuss its views on the future of data warehousing and how new developments like column and MPP databases, cloud computing, compression, and consolidation hold the potential to dramatically lower BI costs and improve service levels and data-driven decision making.

Vertica Systems is the market innovator for high-performance analytic database management systems that run on industry-standard hardware.

For many years, Windows 32-bit architecture has been the traditional host for building and deploying MicroStrategy BI applications. As the MicroStrategy BI Platform continues to evolve, applications hosted on 32-bit systems can be constrained. Corporations see several scalability advantages by shifting to MicroStrategy Universal Edition on 64-bit Unix systems and by consolidating projects into fewer metadata databases. This presentation highlights Lancet’s experience managing some of the largest deployments in the country, the observed and tangible advantages of a Unix deployment, and a suggested approach to successful migration and consolidation that you may wish to exploit as you consider taking the giant leap to the next generation of your enterprise BI deployment.

Lancet Software is a professional services firm focused on business intelligence strategy, execution, and support for companies that want to maximize their Return on Data™.

New in MicroStrategy 9, MicroStrategy Distribution Services securely and efficiently distributes personalized reports and dashboards via e-mail, print, or file delivery. Learn how business users can subscribe to and create their own alert conditions that automatically trigger report and dashboard delivery.

MicroStrategy 9 provides business users with preformatted templates for creating all types of scorecards and dashboards. See how easy it is to build effective and visually-appealing dashboards using out-of-the-box templates. Learn best practices for building reusable templates that conform to your corporate standards. Learn how to follow efficient design processes that leverage reusable objects and formats, such as document templates, grid and graph styles, and default formatting properties.

New in MicroStrategy 9, MicroStrategy OLAP Services delivers significantly enhanced analysis and performance with its new in-memory BI capabilities. Learn how to design Intelligent ROLAP Cubes that work with security filters and prompts to return reports lightning fast. Understand how Dynamic Sourcing automatically chooses the best cubes to fulfill report requests as quickly as possible. See how OLAP Services enhances analysis through drilling, derived metrics, filtering, derived elements, and report linking.

Effective BI report development, continual refinement, and ongoing maintenance require efficient communication between users, developers, architects, and administrators. Learn how MicroStrategy 9’s new Change Journaling and Notes can be used to improve communication that increases report development speed and administrative efficiency.

The MicroStrategy SDK Visualization framework, in its third version, provides deep integration with Adobe Flex Builder to build any type of Flash-based visualizations and/or Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Learn how the MicroStrategy Visualization Plug-in for Flex Builder allows developers to quickly and easily build visualizations that employ interactive Adobe Flex Builder controls. Witness the building and deploying of a custom visualization across multiple projects in MicroStrategy Web.

MicroStrategy 9 unveils improved multidimensional or MDX capabilities that allow MicroStrategy users to connect and execute reports accessing data stored in SAP BI. Learn how to set up connections to SAP BI, import query and cube definitions into MicroStrategy, and create reports from SAP BI. Experience how to combine data from SAP and non-SAP sources in a unified dashboard, maximizing the value of both your SAP BI and data warehouse investments.

A scalable BI architecture must ensure excellent query performance even as more users, more functionality, and more data are added to the system. Administrators will learn how to tune the system to maintain excellent query performance for enterprise BI implementations. Topics covered will include cache management strategies, database connections, new in-memory BI considerations, and 64-bit architectures.

Learn how to create and use Linear Regression, Exponential Regression, Logistic Regression, and Decision Tree data mining models. Understand the business scenarios where these analytics are most widely used.

This session will detail the steps taken to migrate from a MicroStrategy clustered, windows 32-bit complex to a MicroStrategy clustered, UNIX 64-bit infrastructure. Learn how CVS Caremark addressed growing business demands and increasing concurrency needs. Gain insight into the new UNIX infrastructure design, migration approach, regression testing, enabling new features, performance improvements, and lessons learned.

CVS Caremark is the largest provider of prescriptions in the nation. The Company fills or manages more than 1 billion prescriptions annually.

Herbalife will discuss their approach to their KPI executive dashboard from concept to launch. Learn about Herbalife’s design considerations, such as which charts to use and why, and hear about their data layer strategy. Herbalife will showcase a generic model that is tied to a sample dashboard, and will make it available to session attendees.

Herbalife, Ltd., a network marketing company, sells weight management, nutritional supplement, energy and fitness, and personal care products worldwide. The company reported 2.1 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2007.

Sepracor, a leading pharmaceutical company, will discuss how it is using MicroStrategy to send out 2,200 dynamic subscriptions encompassing 276 MicroStrategy Reports. Hear about their business requirements phase, best practices partnering with the business teams, and hear how they have engaged MicroStrategy Professional Services to roll out and automate the entire process so that it occurs in a "lights out" environment. With MicroStrategy, Sepracor is no longer outsourcing field reporting and is instead putting data in the hands of business analysts to generate reports that informs executives and senior departmental managers of strategic and tactical trends and opportunities.

Sepracor Inc. is a research-based pharmaceutical company dedicated to treating and preventing human disease by discovering, developing and commercializing innovative pharmaceutical products that are directed toward serving large and growing markets and unmet medical needs.

This presentation will describe dashboard best practices, the general context of the functional and non-functional requirements of their BI project, and the refactoring process that was implemented to provide dramatic dashboard results. Hear how the Nationwide Insurance team improved the performance and scalability of their dashboards. With MicroStrategy, Nationwide has achieved sub-second response time for its dashboards and reports that run against terabyte-sized databases, with the potential to reach an additional 17,000 users.

Nationwide, based in Columbus, Ohio, is one of the largest diversified insurance and financial services organizations in the world, with more than $161 billion in assets. Nationwide ranks #108 on the FORTUNE® 500 list.

For industries serving today’s consumers, the competitive terrain is increasingly hostile. Today’s leading corporations are seeking dynamic, robust insights into both their consumer base and supply (services delivery) chain that drive smarter decision making and more efficient execution. As part of Accenture’s research into high performance businesses, we’ve found that a growing number of forward-thinking organizations across a variety of industries have already recognized the power of analytics and are building their customer strategies around data-driven insights. In this session, Accenture will explore several key informatics areas that the world’s leading consumer-oriented companies are mining to drive high business performance. You will also hear about the investments in organizational skills, capabilities, and infrastructure that should be established to effectively leverage analytics capabilities into bottom line results.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company.

For industries serving today’s consumers, the competitive terrain is increasingly hostile. Today’s leading corporations are seeking dynamic, robust insights into both their consumer base and supply (services delivery) chain that drive smarter decision making and more efficient execution. As part of Accenture’s research into high performance businesses, we’ve found that a growing number of forward-thinking organizations across a variety of industries have already recognized the power of analytics and are building their customer strategies around data-driven insights. In this session, Accenture will explore several key informatics areas that the world’s leading consumer-oriented companies are mining to drive high business performance. You will also hear about the investments in organizational skills, capabilities, and infrastructure that should be established to effectively leverage analytics capabilities into bottom line results.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company.

For industries serving today’s consumers, the competitive terrain is increasingly hostile. Today’s leading corporations are seeking dynamic, robust insights into both their consumer base and supply (services delivery) chain that drive smarter decision making and more efficient execution. As part of Accenture’s research into high performance businesses, we’ve found that a growing number of forward-thinking organizations across a variety of industries have already recognized the power of analytics and are building their customer strategies around data-driven insights. In this session, Accenture will explore several key informatics areas that the world’s leading consumer-oriented companies are mining to drive high business performance. You will also hear about the investments in organizational skills, capabilities, and infrastructure that should be established to effectively leverage analytics capabilities into bottom line results.

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company.

Learn how to easily run and create MicroStrategy reports, documents, and dashboards in Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, and SharePoint sites. Discover how MicroStrategy 9 enables offline analysis, custom visualizations, secure data updates, and much more, all in conjunction with the native Microsoft Office application functionality.

Learn best practices and advanced techniques for designing highly formatted enterprise reports that may be hundreds of pages long. This session will also cover end user interactivity and what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) formatting. See how to create operational workflows with document drilling, learn how to embed dynamic images into reports, and enhance collaboration with notes and comments.

MicroStrategy 9 offers enhanced in-memory technology. This session explains how to utilize it to optimize your existing setup. See how the new technology fits into the existing technology stack. Learn how to achieve your optimization goals and what data to keep in-memory.

Learn how MicroStrategy Object Manager can effectively manage the BI application lifecycle – specifically developing, testing, and deploying BI metadata objects. Explore the new functionality, such as Packages, that allows you to bundle object definition changes into standalone files for easy migration.

Writing back user inputs, such as comments and data modifications to databases, files, or even blogs, provides powerful means to collaborate, communicate, and conduct scenario planning. Learn how to enable write-back from your reports, dashboards, portal, or composite applications. See exciting write-back demonstrations involving updated data values, forecast metrics, and free form comments using a variety of visual paradigms.

Organizations often have a need to build applications spanning multiple organizational areas and departments. These applications typically integrate BI analysis with operational components, such as order processing and real-time data updates. With the popularity of Adobe Flex, portal, and Asynchronous JavaScript/XML technologies, customers are starting to build sophisticated composite applications that incorporate BI into their operational systems to add intelligence to the decision making process. Learn how to create composite applications using the MicroStrategy Visualization SDK. Understand the different aspects that encompass a composite application.

The second part of Tuning MicroStrategy Intelligence Server will continue describing how to tune the system to maintain excellent query performance for enterprise BI implementations. Topics covered will include cache management strategies, database connections, new in-memory BI considerations, and 64-bit architectures.

Learn how to create and use advanced data mining models including Cluster Analysis, Time Series Models, and Association Rules. Both Time Series and Association Rules models are new to MicroStrategy 9. Understand the business scenarios where these analytics are most widely used.

Learn how the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is using Performance Metrics to drive over $140 million in benefits from improved efficiency which it is using to enhance security effectiveness. TSA will showcase the Management Objective Report, a balanced operational scorecard that is generated using MicroStrategy and e-mailed to senior leadership. TSA will also discuss the strategic management system elements necessary to facilitate the effective use of metrics, and will explore the psychology of metrics within a high performance management system.

The Transportation Security Administration, formed immediately following the tragedies of Sept. 11, is a component of the Department of Homeland Security and is responsible for security of the nation’s transportation systems.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) Portal, a Web-based MicroStrategy implementation, is helping healthcare organizations across Canada make informed operational and resource management decisions. Learn how CIHI developed a BI solution to perform unprecedented pan-Canadian comparative analyses for a diverse user community and delivered it in a prompt and secure manner. With this new source of timely information, CIHI end users are better able to plan healthcare programs and improve operational efficiencies. Hear about the CIHI Portal’s extensive education program that includes a metadata library, in-class instruction, and MicroStrategy eLearning.

The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides essential data and analysis on Canada’s health system and the health of Canadians.

Consider this: Your largest customer informs you that they will be raising their ’weeks-of-supply’ from 8 to 12 weeks on 40 items across 1,000 stores. Your production planners need to come up with a volume estimate. Two years ago, Saint-Gobain Abrasives was unable to develop an accurate plan. Today, with MicroStrategy, Saint-Gobain has nailed this question and solved other problems. Hear how employees in Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Supply Chain can easily access meaningful data and calculate complex metrics quickly. Gain insight into Saint-Gobain’s best practices in BI development, understand their business challenges, and learn why the company recommends TAS for those new to MicroStrategy.

Saint-Gobain Abrasives is a subsidiary of Compagnie de Saint-Gobain, a multinational corporation with headquarters in Paris, France. Saint-Gobain, with annual sales of over $33 billion, operates more than 1,000 consolidated companies in 46 countries and employs over 170,500 people.

Hear about the BI program at Mercury Insurance, and the company’s decision to begin a BI program, key business drivers, and criteria for success. Mercury will share its approach focused on delivering game changing actionable data to an ever evolving business community. In addition, Mercury will discuss the implementation of MicroStrategy, both as part of the long term solution and how it was leveraged for immediate quick hits.

Mercury General is the leading independent broker and agency writer of automobile insurance in California, and has been one of the fastest growing automobile insurers in the nation.

In light of the recent economic turmoil, companies are hesitant to invest significant capital in much needed business intelligence initiatives. Hosted hardware solutions and Software as a Service (SaaS) allow organizations to quickly and easily deploy effective BI solutions with minimum cost investment. In this session, learn the benefits of outsourcing your BI solution, what to expect from your provider, and how to sell your business case for a hosted solution to your organization.

FORTUNE 1000, mid-cap, and high-growth technology organizations around the world use business intelligence solutions from iOLAP.

Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 delivers a broad set of features and functionality to support the diverse performance management needs of today’s fast-paced business environment. This session focuses on the planning capabilities of PerformancePoint Server 2007 – covering various key topics such as Site Structure, Write-back, Personas, and Deployment. The talk also takes a deeper look at integrating MicroStrategy BI with PPS Planning by sourcing data from MicroStrategy into the planning process and also monitoring plans Vs actuals. The session will be co-presented by MicroStrategy and Microsoft.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential