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In these introductory sessions, business users and BI project managers will learn how to use MicroStrategy 9 to report, analyze, and monitor their business performance. Come and learn how MicroStrategy 9 has significantly improved the overall BI experience through any user interface – Web, Office, Mobile, E-mail, SAP BI, and Analysis Services.

• Session 1 – Discover the New MicroStrategy Web User Experience

  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.

• Session 2 – Explore the New MicroStrategy Web Self-Service Report Creation Capabilities

  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.

• Session 3 – MicroStrategy 9 BI Reporting, Dashboards, and Analysis for SAP BI, Microsoft Analysis Services, and Hyperion Essbase

  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.

• Session 4 – Advanced Analytics — Using Statistics, Data Mining, and Predictive Analytics to Improve Business Decisions

  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.

• Session 5 – Monitoring Business Performance with Alerts and Proactive Report Delivery to E-mail, Printers, and File Servers — MicroStrategy Distribution Services

  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.

• Session 6 – MicroStrategy 9 Dashboards, Reports, and Analysis for Microsoft® Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and SharePoint

  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.

• Session 7 – Business Intelligence for the Mobile Workforce — MicroStrategy Mobile

  See how MicroStrategy Mobile delivers critical BI information directly to BlackBerry® Smartphones. MicroStrategy Mobile is a fully interactive interface including page-by, sorting, resizing, column locking, offline analysis, saving, and much more. Now, executives and mobile workers will always have access to critical information whenever and wherever they need it.

• Session 8 – Discover the New MicroStrategy Web User Experience

  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.

• Session 9 – Explore the New MicroStrategy Web Self-Service Report Creation Capabilities

  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.

Dashboard and report developers learn tips and techniques in this track for creating Pixel Perfect™ enterprise reports, dashboards, and scorecards with MicroStrategy 9. Through demonstrations and examples, attendees will learn how to build dynamic dashboards, banded enterprise reports, and best practices for efficient design. All sessions will include new MicroStrategy Report Services capabilities.

• Session 1 – Building Interactive Dashboards

  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.

• Session 2 – Analyzing Data with Advanced Visualizations: Part 1

  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.

• Session 3 – Analyzing Data with Advanced Visualizations: Part 2

  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.

• Session 4 – Tips and Techniques for Designing Beautiful Dashboards

  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.

• Session 5 – Quickly and Effectively Building Dashboards

  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.

• Session 6 – Building Interactive Enterprise Reports — MicroStrategy Report Services: Part 1

  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.

• Session 7 – Building Interactive Enterprise Reports — MicroStrategy Report Services: Part 2

  This second part of Enterprise Report creation will focus on best practices and advanced techniques for designing large enterprise reports with particular consideration for printing and exporting. Common challenges for printed enterprise reports include advanced pagination control, proper section grouping, including a table of contents, .pdf navigation and bookmarking, and layout consideration for export to Excel.

• Session 8 – Building Interactive Enterprise Reports — MicroStrategy Report Services: Part 3

  The third part of Enterprise Report creation will focus on some new MicroStrategy Report Services capabilities, such as multi-tabbed report books, horizontally repeating data sections, one-click conversion of grid or graph reports to documents, and thresholds. Learn how to export multi-tabbed documents to .pdf and Excel.

• Session 9 – Tips and Techniques for Optimizing Performance with Report Services Dashboards and Enterprise Reports

  Understand how dashboard and enterprise report components, such as data sets, panels, selectors, grouping, text boxes, shapes, grids, and graphs, impact performance and size. Knowing this information will help you design dashboards and reports for optimal performance.

Application developers will learn sophisticated strategies and advanced techniques for designing more advanced BI applications. Learn about the new MicroStrategy 9 capabilities involving project creation, internationalization, high performance BI, and report distribution. Due to expected popularity, these sessions will be repeated on the second day.

• Session 1 – Rapid Project Modeling with MicroStrategy Architect

  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.

• Session 2 – Internationalization Part 1 – Delivering a Single MicroStrategy Application in Multiple Languages

  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.

• Session 3 – Creating Advanced Information Delivery Services – MicroStrategy Distribution Services

  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.

• Session 4 – Developing High-Performance In-Memory BI Applications – MicroStrategy OLAP Services

  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.

• Session 5 – Developing High-Performance In-Memory BI Applications – MicroStrategy OLAP Services

  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.

• Session 6 – Optimizing In-Memory BI For Stunning Performance

  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.

• Session 7 – Internationalization Part 2 – How to Develop and Administer a Multi-Lingual Application

  This second part of Internationalization will provide an in-depth understanding of how to develop multi-lingual applications. Learn how to design, configure, architect, and administer the database and metadata structures necessary to deploy an application in multiple languages.

• Session 8 – Creating Advanced Information Delivery Services – MicroStrategy Distribution Services

  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.

• Session 9 – Rapid Project Modeling with MicroStrategy Architect

  See how to rapidly develop a project using the enhanced features of MicroStrategy Architect. MicroStrategy Architect simplifies and streamlines the schema development process using an all new graphical interface.

Application developers will learn sophisticated strategies and advanced techniques for designing more advanced BI applications. Learn about the new MicroStrategy 9 capabilities involving analytical set math, high performance BI, heterogeneous data access, change management, and collaborative report development. Due to expected popularity, these sessions will be repeated on the second day.

• Session 1 – Using MicroStrategy 9 Derived Elements to Create Powerful Analytics such as Consolidations and Custom Groups over the Web – MicroStrategy OLAP Services

  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.

• Session 2 – Accessing Heterogeneous Data Sources Using the MicroStrategy Multisource Option

  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.

• Session 3 – Change Management in a BI Environment with MicroStrategy Object Manager

  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.

• Session 4 – Optimizing In-Memory BI For Stunning Performance

  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.

• Session 5 – Enhancing Workflow and Collaboration with MicroStrategy Change Journaling and Notes

  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.

• Session 6 – Change Management in a BI Environment with MicroStrategy Object Manager

  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.

• Session 7 – Using MicroStrategy 9 Derived Elements to Create Powerful Analytics such as Consolidations and Custom Groups over the Web – MicroStrategy OLAP Services

  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.

• Session 8 – Accessing Heterogeneous Data Sources Using the MicroStrategy Multisource Option

  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.

• Session 9 – Enhancing Workflow and Collaboration with MicroStrategy Change Journaling and Notes

  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.

Customers often need to extend or modify out-of-the-box MicroStrategy functionality to meet the requirements of end users. Through business-focused case studies, developers and systems integrators will learn how to use the MicroStrategy Software Development Kit or SDK to customize the user experience, build advanced visualizations, and extend the out-of-the-box MicroStrategy BI functionality.

• Session 1 – Using the MicroStrategy Web URL API For Customized Report Execution and Integration

  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.

• Session 2 – Managing Customizations and Upgrades Through MicroStrategy’s Web Customization Editor for Eclipse

  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.

• Session 3 – Popular Extensions and Customizations to the MicroStrategy BI Platform

  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.

• Session 4 – Building Advanced Extensions and Customizations to MicroStrategy Web

  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.

• Session 5 – Building Advanced Visualizations with the MicroStrategy SDK Visualization Framework

  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.

• Session 6 – Incorporating Writeback Capabilities Directly From Your BI Applications

  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.

• Session 7 – Building Flash Rich Internet Applications Live in Under One Hour with Adobe Flex 3/AIR

  Witness the live building of a Composite Application from the ground-up using our Visualization SDK. Learn how to start from a blank page and create the composite application, load data from the MicroStrategy platform, data bind all the controls, create a local offline storage of the data, and compile it as an AIR file for deployment as a desktop application.

• Session 8 – Using MicroStrategy 9 Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) to Inject BI into Your Enterprise Applications

  Increasingly, BI applications are used to provide data and intelligence to other operational applications that may be mission-critical to an organization. MicroStrategy 9’s SOA, based on the MicroStrategy SDK Task infrastructure, can deliver the exact information required using lightweight calls. Understand how the Task infrastructure works. Learn how to build services that can be accessed and utilized by many applications.

• Session 9 – Managing Customizations and Upgrades Through MicroStrategy’s Web Customization Editor for Eclipse

  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.

Every organization has a number of mission-critical IT systems such as BI, Portals, ERP, and CRM that access operational, relational, and multi-dimensional data sources. Integrating BI with and into these other IT applications provides a comprehensive view into business performance. Learn how to integrate MicroStrategy 9 with other IT systems to ensure a seamless BI user experience.

• Session 1 – Building Web 2.0 Applications, Google Applications, and Mashups with MicroStrategy’s Services Oriented Architecture (SOA)

  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.

• Session 2 – Authentication in MicroStrategy 9

  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.

• Session 3 – Integrating MicroStrategy with Enterprise Portals

  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.

• Session 4 – Creating Flash Mashups Using the MicroStrategy SDK Visualization Framework

  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.

• Session 5 – Developing MicroStrategy Applications on SAP BI

  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.

• Session 6 – Building Composite Applications Using MicroStrategy Software Development Kit

  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.

• Session 7 – Developing MicroStrategy Applications on Microsoft Analysis Services

  MicroStrategy 9 unveils improved multidimensional or MDX capabilities that allow MicroStrategy users to connect and execute reports accessing data stored in Microsoft Analysis Services. Learn how to enable single sign-on authentication, set up connections to Microsoft Analysis Services, import cube definitions into MicroStrategy, and create reports from Microsoft Analysis Services. Experience how to combine data from SQL Server, Analysis Services, and other data sources in a unified dashboard to maximize the value of both your Analysis Services and data warehouse investments.

• Session 8 – Developing MicroStrategy Applications on Hyperion Essbase

  MicroStrategy supports data access to Hyperion Essbase using XML for Analysis and MDX queries. Discover the ins and outs of cube imports, report development, document development, subscription, and more. Learn tips and tricks to make sure that you can take advantage of Essbase data residing in applications and departments, bringing it together with your data warehouse and other cube and database sources. Learn how objects and constructs in Essbase are mapped to and used as objects in MicroStrategy.

• Session 9 – Implementing External Security Module and Single Sign-On

  Organizations are centralizing how they authenticate and authorize their users for their enterprise applications. They require all the applications to use their centralized authentication or authorization system such as Tivoli and SiteMinder. At logon, organizations may wish to apply specific rules that can map users from one system to another, or change user attributes on the fly. MicroStrategy provides this capability using the External Security Module. Learn how to use the External Security Module for incorporating custom authentication or authorization.

BI applications are now becoming mission-critical and consequently require outstanding data integrity, high uptime, and fast response times. MicroStrategy administrators will learn how to integrate MicroStrategy 9 into existing IT environments, optimize performance, and automate administration.

• Session 1 – Key Technological Enhancements to MicroStrategy Intelligence Server

  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.

• Session 2 – Monitoring Your Applications and Usage – MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager

  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.

• Session 3 – Automating Administration to Manage BI Environments – MicroStrategy Command Manager

  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.

• Session 4 – Ensuring Data and Report Integrity in Your BI Environment – MicroStrategy Integrity Manager

  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.

• Session 5 – Tuning MicroStrategy Intelligence Server for Maximum Performance: Part 1

  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.

• Session 6 – Tuning MicroStrategy Intelligence Server for Maximum Performance: Part 2

  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.

• Session 7 – Automate MicroStrategy Integrity Manager Analysis and Deliver Exception Reports Using E-mail Alerts

  Regular changes to the BI ecosystem can impact the business users’ report data. Learn how to use MicroStrategy Integrity Manager, Distribution Services, and Command Manager to automate the comparison of today’s data against expected baseline results, automatically check for performance degradations before they impact end users, and be alerted to any changes that impact report or document appearance. See how to create a MicroStrategy Integrity Manager test, access the test results using a MicroStrategy report, deliver an alert-triggered e-mail using Distribution Services, and automate the entire process using Command Manager.

• Session 8 – Combining Java Programming with MicroStrategy Command Manager Scripts to Automate Administrative Tasks

  New in MicroStrategy Command Manager, administrators can combine Java programming with Command Manager scripts to develop Command Manager Tasks. These Tasks can include programming logic, such as loop commands, to automate and quickly execute lengthy, repetitive administrative jobs, such as creating users and assigning privileges. Learn how to develop Command Manager Tasks with Java programming. Understand common administrative scenarios where these Tasks can save valuable time and effort.

• Session 9 – Resolving Prompts Using MicroStrategy Integrity Manager

  MicroStrategy Integrity Manager includes new prompt resolution capabilities. MicroStrategy Integrity Manager tests resolve prompts using a sophisticated combination of user input, stored default answers, and advanced prompt resolution logic. Learn how the prompt resolution logic functions and how to design effective MicroStrategy Integrity Manager tests.

Advanced and predictive analytics help organizations better understand their data to become more competitive. In this track, learn how to create and use advanced and predictive metrics in MicroStrategy 9. See how to tune and optimize SQL generation for faster performance through VLDB settings.

• Session 1 – Designing Reports and Analysis from Unmodeled Data Sources with a Graphical Query Builder and Free Form SQL Reports

  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.

• Session 2 – Customer Segmentation and Cohort Analysis Using Data Marts and Advanced Metrics

  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.

• Session 3 – Using MicroStrategy to Lower Your BI Total Cost of Ownership

  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.

• Session 4 – Optimizing SQL Generation Using VLDB Settings

  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.

• Session 5 – Creating Regression and Decision Tree Data Mining Models with MicroStrategy 9

  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.

• Session 6 – Creating Advanced Data Mining Models with MicroStrategy 9: Cluster, Time Series, Association Rules

  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.

• Session 7 – New Advanced Metrics in MicroStrategy 9

  MicroStrategy 9 introduces sophisticated new analytical capabilities. Learn about Banded Metrics, new OLAP Functions, and improved analysis with Non-Aggregateable Metrics.

• Session 8 – Implementing Data Security

  Data security is paramount to any BI application. MicroStrategy provides a comprehensive security architecture that can secure data down to the cell level through the combination of privileges, security filters, access control lists (ACLs), and role-based security.

• Session 9 – Developing Applications with MicroStrategy Office

  Nearly every company has custom-designed Microsoft Excel workbooks that employ macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code that create and format data for reporting and analysis. MicroStrategy Office includes a full-featured application programming interface (API), empowering developers to build highly-sophisticated and powerful Microsoft Office solutions. Learn how to use these two complementary technologies to programmatically create powerful, customized Office applications including offline capabilities and database write-back. In addition, you will see how MicroStrategy integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio to build complex managed .NET applications using C# and Visual Basic .NET.

This track will highlight case studies from successful MicroStrategy customers, sharing lessons learned in deploying business intelligence applications in their organizations. Learn how leading companies use MicroStrategy software to improve operations, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance business performance.

• Session 1 – eBay: Best Practices in Operational BI and Customer Service

  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.

• Session 2 – Yahoo! Inc.: Developing BI Solutions in a Rapidly Evolving Environment

  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.

• Session 3 – The Disney Interactive Media Group: Best Practices for Executive Dashboard Design and Rapid Development

  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.

• Session 4 – AEG Worldwide: MicroStrategy Up and Running in a Record Four Weeks

  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.

• Session 5 – CVS Caremark: 64-bit and The Next Frontier

  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.

• Session 6 – Transportation Security Administration: A Strategic Look at Performance Metrics

  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.

• Session 7 – GUESS?, Inc.: Empowering the Business Through MicroStrategy Mobile and Dashboards

  Hear how GUESS?, Inc. deployed MicroStrategy Mobile and Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards to its executive, field, and merchant communities. Learn how these initiatives are transforming and energizing information analysis and delivery. This session showcases exciting new retail dashboards, a live demonstration of the mobile application, lessons learned, and best practices for their mobile and dashboard deployment.
  
  Founded in Los Angeles in 1981, GUESS?, Inc. designs, markets, distributes, and licenses a lifestyle collection of contemporary apparel, denim, handbags, watches, footwear, and other related consumer products. GUESS?, Inc. is a $1.7 billion global brand with 424 retail stores in North America and over 600 freestanding stores worldwide.

• Session 8 – The Sports Authority: Best Practices in Building a Portal Implementation

  The Sports Authority will discuss its portal implementation, BI strategy, and best practices for report development, planning, and project migrations. Hear about some of the numerous benefits the IS group has delivered to the user community, including a morning flash report sent to Blackberry devices that update executive members of sales performance. Learn how the portal has resulted in one cohesive and inclusive location for all reporting requests and other company-wide information.
  
  The Sports Authority, Inc., headquartered in Englewood, Colorado, operates over 400 stores in 45 U.S. states under The Sports Authority.

• Session 9 – David’s Bridal: Utilizing Agile Development Methodologies to Increase Productivity

  Many organizations are now using Agile Development Methodologies to keep pace with rapidly evolving business requirements. Learn the tips and tricks David’s Bridal used to successfully implement the Agile Development Methodology known as Scrum in their Data Warehouse project, and how it empowered their staff to be more productive. With MicroStrategy, employees from the store associates to the CEO have access to revenue and performance data and intuitive dashboards so that they can make business decisions in a timely fashion, thereby enhancing customer store experiences. Hear how the Narrowcast Server component of MicroStrategy has met user needs with its ability to generate, print, and export Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards, and how Integrity Manager has led to significant productivity improvements.
  
  David’s Bridal is the largest and most successful bridal retailer in the country. With more than 50 years of bridal experience, over 295 locations nationwide and a rapidly growing e-Commerce presence, David''s Bridal continues to expand its retail store locations, while maintaining its philosophy of superior quality, value, and service.

This track will highlight case studies from successful MicroStrategy customers, sharing lessons learned in deploying business intelligence applications in their organizations. Learn how leading companies use MicroStrategy software to improve operations, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance business performance.

• Session 1 – Meredith Corporation: Detail to Dashboards – Evolution from Grid Reporting to Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards

  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.

• Session 2 – Paramount Pictures: The Making of "HEDWay"

  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.

• Session 3 – Marriott International: Using Analytical Insight to Drive Business Action

  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.

• Session 4 – Silverton Casino & Hotel: Ringing Up BI Success with MicroStrategy

  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.

• Session 5 – Herbalife: Dashboard Design and Implementation

  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.

• Session 6 – Canadian Institute for Health Information: Delivering a BI Environment to a National Audience

  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.

• Session 7 – Catalina Marketing: Delivering Dashboards Using Web, Narrowcast, and Portal Integration

  Catalina’s MicroStrategy user community is comprised of approximately 500 users across eight countries (US, UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and Japan) accessing an SDK customized Web interface, 15 BI applications, and a variety of analytical, intuitive reports running against a 30-terabyte Netezza data warehouse. To continue delivering excellence in BI reporting with MicroStrategy, Catalina now provides users with improved access to highly visual dashboards. Learn how Catalina is achieving this through a series of improvements, including the conversion of existing Web grid reports to Flash-enabled dashboards, enabling delivery of relevant dashboards to e-mail users, and dashboard integration into the company portal. This presentation will also highlight recent achievements that leverage Report Services by delivering elaborate Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards and other relevant documents to the user community. Hear how this is all being implemented with the help of MicroStrategy Professional Services.
  
  Based in St. Petersburg, Fla., Catalina Marketing Corporation (www.catalinamarketing.com) was founded 25 years ago based on the premise that targeting communications based on actual purchase behavior would generate more effective consumer response. Today, Catalina Marketing combines unparalleled insight into consumer behavior with dynamic consumer access. This combination of insight and access provides marketers with the ability to execute behavior-based marketing programs, ensuring that the right consumer receives the right message at exactly the right time. Catalina Marketing offers an array of behavior-based promotional messaging, loyalty programs and direct-to-patient information.

• Session 8 – Bluegreen Corporation: Beta Experience and Feedback on MicroStrategy 9

  Bluegreen always stays up-to-date with technology releases and will address its successful beta experience with MicroStrategy 9. Learn about the benefits of being a participant in the MicroStrategy Beta Program and how Bluegreen’s involvement lead to dozens of tickets and enhancements during MicroStrategy 9 beta cycle. Hear Bluegreen’s experience and plans to roll out their current projects onto the new platform as part of next year’s initiatives. After two years deployed on the MicroStrategy platform, Bluegreen continues to realize greater efficiency and accuracy related to their Sales and Marketing data, as well as leveraging the company’s SharePoint corporate portal to offer a self-service experience so users can resolve issues and complete training on their own schedules instead of IT’s.
  
  Bluegreen Corporation is a leading provider of leisure products and services. Founded in 1966 and headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, Bluegreen Corporation is comprised of two divisions, Bluegreen Communities® and Bluegreen Resorts.

• Session 9 – AARP: Evolving from a Single BI Application to an Integrated Enterprise Platform with MicroStrategy

  AARP has deployed business intelligence as a critical component of its Membership Relationship Management solution. Learn how AARP successfully evolved its BI implementation strategy from a narrow departmental reporting focus to an integrated enterprise perspective, and how AARP will maximize the value from its BI investments by focusing on strategic reporting. This, in turn, will improve the overall ROI, increase the effectiveness of the BI resources to address strategic initiatives, and thus, the performance of the organization in terms of meeting its core business objectives. Hear how an organization can both efficiently and effectively transform its current BI systems by leveraging the right mix of products using the MicroStrategy platform.
  
  AARP is the leading nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for people age 50 and over in the United States. With more than 41 million members, AARP strives to provide a host of services to this ever-growing segment of the population by informing members on issues important to their age group, advocating on legislative, consumer, and legal issues, promoting community service, and offering products and services to members.

This track will highlight case studies from successful MicroStrategy customers, sharing lessons learned in deploying business intelligence applications in their organizations. Learn how leading companies use MicroStrategy software to improve operations, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance business performance.

• Session 1 – Target: Best Practices in Building Scalable BI Solutions

  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.

• Session 2 – Lowe’s Companies, Inc.: Finding Hidden Value When Adding New Subject Areas to Your BI Platform

  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.

• Session 3 – Raley’s: Delivering Category Management Analytics with MicroStrategy BI

  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.

• Session 4 – Liquor Control Board of Ontario: Delivering Business Value with MicroStrategy

  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.

• Session 5 – Sepracor: Leveraging MicroStrategy to Generate Thousands of Dynamic Subscriptions

  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.

• Session 6 – Saint-Gobain Abrasives: Analyzing Point-of-Sale Data with MicroStrategy

  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.

• Session 7 – TBA
• Session 8 – Belgacom: Evolving to a Business Intelligence Competency Center

  Hear how Belgacom moved to a business intelligence competency center, or BICC, to provide a central location for driving and supporting the organization’s overall business intelligence strategy. Learn about Belgacom’s centralization efforts and how the company ensures that information and best practices are communicated and shared through the entire enterprise so that all users can benefit from BI successes and lessons learned.
  
  The Belgacom Group is the leading Belgian supplier of integrated telecommunication services and posted a total revenue of EUR 6,065 Billion in 2007.

• Session 9 – Turkcell: Mobile Information Factory

  Learn about Turkcell’s BI implementation, and how the company improved data quality, information ease-of-use, and efficiency with MicroStrategy. See Turkcell’s customized Web interface and its portal designed with personalized content, Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards, and enhanced functionality. With the newly designed and architected information factory, Turkcell business users have access to the right information at the right time via self-service usage.
  
  Turkcell is the leading mobile communications provider in Turkey with over 36 million postpaid and prepaid customers as of September 30, 2008. Turkcell is the leading operator in Turkey, and the third largest GSM operator in Europe in terms of subscriber numbers.

This track will highlight case studies from successful MicroStrategy customers, sharing lessons learned in deploying business intelligence applications in their organizations. Learn how leading companies use MicroStrategy software to improve operations, reduce inefficiencies, and enhance business performance.

• Session 1 – Bank of America: Leveraging Business Intelligence

  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.

• Session 2 – Citi: Building a Global Reporting System Initiative with MicroStrategy

  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.

• Session 3 – KeyBank: Turning Analytics into Actionable Insights

  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.

• Session 4 – Republic Bank Limited: BI the Second Time Around

  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.

• Session 5 – Nationwide Insurance: Designing Dashboards for Optimal Performance and Scalability

  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.

• Session 6 – Mercury Insurance: Business Intelligence at Mercury Insurance – Strategies to Compete and Win, Today and into the Future

  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.

• Session 7 – FAMIQ: Successfully Integrating MicroStrategy with SAP BW

  This presentation will showcase FAMIQ’s SAP integration, and how the company optimized its business performance by integrating MicroStrategy with SAP BW. Choosing MicroStrategy and integrating it with SAP BW made this project a remarkable success by obtaining the best from both solutions. Learn how FAMIQ deployed BI across the enterprise to gain a unique view of its business fundamentals, and how they use MicroStrategy to address customer segmentation and increased visibility into stock management. FAMIQ will also discuss its reasons for implementing the project, address expected improvements versus realized results, highlight the technical aspects of the solution, and cover lessons learned.
  
  FAMIQ, with a presence in the Argentine market for 50 years, is the leading producer and distributor of stainless steel coils and sheets, tubes, pipes, and fittings. FAMIQ delivers over 25,000 products made of different kinds of stainless steel. FAMIQ’s mission is to provide added value to its products and create greater satisfaction for its customers.

• Session 8 – Cancer Care Ontario: iPort™ Access – The Next Phase in Wait Time Reporting

  Reducing wait times for key health services is one of the Ontario government’s top priorities and part of their strategy to transform the healthcare system. This presentation will focus on the development of iPort™ Access, a MicroStrategy-based tool used by hospitals, local health integration networks, and the Ministry of Health and Long Term Care. Learn about the challenges CCO faced by adding a new BI project within an organization already running two very large, province-wide initiatives. Hear how health care professionals use iPort™ Access to report on surgical and MRI/CT wait times, and how it helps them to better manage their existing wait lists and improve patient’s access to healthcare.
  
  Cancer Care Ontario is the provincial agency responsible for continually improving cancer services.

• Session 9 – Saint Elizabeth Health Care: Keeping the "B" in Business Intelligence

  Hear about Saint Elizabeth Health Care’s approach to building its business intelligence strategy, and how it was created to address specific business requirements to drive operational efficiencies and realize business results. Learn how Saint Elizabeth Health Care is heading down a very exciting road towards improved workflows and reduced costs, involving less manual intervention and creating better decision making. Gain insight into its strategy, project launch, challenges and opportunities, technology solutions, training program, change management, and business improvements. With a focus on the ’business’ side of BI, and with MicroStrategy as the enabler, hear how the journey ahead of Saint Elizabeth Health Care is leading to improvement opportunities, greater insight, and organizational growth.
  
  Saint Elizabeth Health Care has been an active participant in the development and delivery of community health care since 1908. Today, an award-winning organization and not-for-profit charitable leader, Saint Elizabeth Health Care employs nearly 4,000 multidisciplinary staff, shares its knowledge nationally and internationally through consultation, knowledge exchange products and services, and delivers 3.3 million home-care visits a year.

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.

• Session 1 – Southport Services Group: BI Projects – Produce or Perish

  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.

• Session 2 – Carpio Solutions: Moving to Performance Management 2.0 with MicroStrategy

  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.

• Session 3 – QuantiSense: Developing Your Business Intelligence Playbook

  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.

• Session 4 – Composite Software: Maximize BI ROI with Data Federation

  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.

• Session 5 – Accenture: Competing on Information for High Business Performance

  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.

• Session 6 – iOLAP: Business Intelligence on Demand – Cost Saving Hosted Solutions

  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.

• Session 7 – Longview Solutions: CPM – The Missing Link in Your BI Strategy

  Learn how Longview Solutions can improve the accuracy and transparency of the financial data that drives your enterprise. In this session, Longview will discuss the differences between BI and corporate performance management (CPM), and how MicroStrategy customers can take advantage of the recently announced technology partnership between Longview’s enterprise-class CPM solution and MicroStrategy�s BI Platform. Attendees will see, first-hand, how key financial processes including planning, consolidations, and global tax reporting can be seamlessly integrated into your BI strategy � using one version of financial truth. This session will include a live demonstration of the two systems working together and what this means for MicroStrategy customers in need of a CPM solution.
  
  Longview Solutions provides corporate performance management software that leading companies like Trustmark, Time Warner, Home Depot, Ingersoll Rand, JC Penney, and GE Healthcare use to drive performance with speed, visibility, and financial integrity.

• Session 8 – Invexer: Building Custom BI Applications Using MicroStrategy SDK

  This session will explain in detail how Invexer developed an interactive and visually-appealing custom BI application using Flex and MicroStrategy SDK. A complete Web component was developed from ground-up to support any kind of front-end data rendering, while utilizing the strong analytical capabilities of the MicroStrategy back-end. Customization techniques used in the application, such as Single Sign-On, Prompt Answering, Custom Transform, and URL API, will be explained in detail.
  
  Invexer is an information technology consulting company that helps government agencies and commercial companies with technical solutions and professional resources to achieve competitive advantage and operational excellence.

• Session 9 – CTO Exchange on High Availability in the BI Ecosystem

  This exclusive session offers insights from thought leaders of three leading technology companies. 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.

Systems integrators, customers, and technology partners provide real-world case studies, discuss their specific methodology, and showcase their best practices for implementing MicroStrategy BI.

• Session 1 – Sybase: Column-Oriented Databases

  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.

• Session 2 – SPSS: How to Solve Mission-Critical Problems with Predictive Analytics

  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.

• Session 3 – HP: Changing the Game with Operational Intelligence

  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.

• Session 4 – Vertica Systems: The Future of Data Warehousing – 5 Developments that will Transform the Costs and Benefits of BI

  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.

• Session 5 – Accenture: Competing on Information for High Business Performance

  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.

• Session 6 – Microsoft: PerformancePoint Server 2007 – A Planning Overview and Integrating with MicroStrategy BI

  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

• Session 7 – Netezza: Where Data Warehouse Appliances Come From

  Get an inside look at the newest trends and biggest business benefits of data warehousing. Netezza, a leader and pioneer in the world of data warehouse appliances, will show you how new approaches in this field are delivering big returns for organizations. You’ll learn how to accelerate and simplify your analytics initiatives, and how to overcome the challenge of having too much data and not enough processing power. You will hear about technology that offers 100x faster performance than conventional data warehouses with as little as half the total cost of ownership. Whether you are an absolute beginner or an experienced data warehouse user, this session offers useful information on how this technology can fundamentally improve the way you do business.
  
  Netezza is the global leader in data warehouse and analytic appliances that dramatically simplify high-performance analytics for business users across the extended enterprise, delivering significant competitive and operational advantage in today’s information-intensive marketplaces.

• Session 8 – TBA

  TBA

• Session 9 – CTO Exchange on High Availability in the BI Ecosystem

  This exclusive session offers insights from thought leaders of three leading technology companies. 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.

MicroStrategy technology partners, OEMs, and systems integration and consulting partners share their insights, solution platforms, and implementation successes as they deliver optimal value to our joint customers’ BI initiatives.

• Session 1 – Sybase: Column-Oriented Databases

  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.

• Session 2 – Capgemini: Enterprise Data Management and Traceability � The New Corporate Imperative

  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.

• Session 3 – DataFactZ: Change Management Analytics – Managing BI Changes in a High-Paced MicroStrategy Environment

  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.

• Session 4 – Lancet Software: One Giant Leap – Unix Migration and Metadata Consolidation

  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™.

• Session 5 – Accenture: Competing on Information for High Business Performance

  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.

• Session 6 – Visual Crossing: Using Visual Crossing to Add Maps to Your MicroStrategy Deployment

  Learn how Visual Crossing Map Services enables your users to gain greater insight into your MicroStrategy data by utilizing geographical maps and other visualizations. This session will include demonstrations of customer segmentation, competitor analysis, time-based animations for tracking trends, and map-enabled Dynamic Dashboards. From geocoding to formatting maps, this presentation will cover the steps necessary for deploying maps on your MicroStrategy projects.
  
  Visual Crossing’s industry-leading visualization product provides fully interactive maps, planograms, and other visualizations for MicroStrategy reports, dashboards, documents, and Narrowcast Server, including drilling, page-by, and OLAP Services.

• Session 7 – Greenlight Technologies: Compliance Intelligence – Convergence of MicroStrategy BI and Greenlight GRC Automation

  Greenlight Technologies is the industry leader in providing real-time, cross-platform Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) automation across the enterprise. The Greenlight solution comprises a comprehensive set of access controls – SOD, user provisioning, and privileged users management – and an extensive library of financial controls associated with continuous monitoring of business transactions (CCM) in a cross-platform context. The Greenlight solution extends over a variety of platforms including Oracle, PSFT, JD Edwards, Siebel, SAP GRC, and a multitude of legacy systems. The objective of this session is to highlight the technology collaboration of MicroStrategy and Greenlight to successfully extend business intelligence within the domain of compliance automation in a sustainable manner. We will also analyze the success factors and key challenges, as well as the strategies employed by organizations to overcome those challenges.
  
  Greenlight Technologies enables comprehensive, integrated Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) across today’s extended organization, allowing participation by the company’s existing, incompatible enterprise platforms.

• Session 8 – InfoCepts: Delivering on the Promise of MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Dashboards in 18 Days – A Program and Methodology for Success Using a Healthcare Case Study

  If you are either working on your first dashboard project or have worked on one previously but thought that you could do much better, here is your chance to learn how to deliver intuitive, meaningful, and attractive dashboards in a predictable manner. Based on our experience of delivering numerous dashboards, we have crafted a methodology that encapsulates design, development, and visualization best practices within a rapid development framework. Using a healthcare case study, we will discuss the steps in our methodology and present our templates and reference guides that make the process capable of delivering dashboards in 18 days. All attending this session will receive a complimentary CD loaded with dashboard design templates and guides that can be used for rapid development of your next dashboard project!
  
  Led by two former MicroStrategists, InfoCepts specializes in crafting complete data warehousing solutions with exceptional expertise in MicroStrategy solutions. The cornerstone of our value creation is our delivery model that integrates geographically distributed, onsite and offshore teams to produce BI systems with outstanding ROI.

• Session 9 – CTO Exchange on High Availability in the BI Ecosystem

  This exclusive session offers insights from thought leaders of three leading technology companies. 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.