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Join us for the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Symposium in Chicago on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to enhance your business intelligence proficiency, share ideas, and hear what successful companies have learned from their BI deployments.
Track 1: Reporting, Analysis, and Monitoring
In these introductory sessions, end users and BI project managers will learn how to leverage MicroStrategy to satisfy the unique requirements of different end user communities and business intelligence applications. Through business-focused case studies, attendees will learn how to use MicroStrategy to report, analyze, and monitor their data. Session 1 – Business Intelligence for the Mobile Workforce – MicroStrategy Mobile Do your executives and mobile workers demand immediate access to and interaction with relevant, timely, personalized, and secure business intelligence information on their BlackBerry® devices? Do they need disconnected access to their data? Is your IT organization struggling to reformat reports from your enterprise BI systems, especially for the small form factors presented by mobile devices? In this session, learn how MicroStrategy’s latest product offering, MicroStrategy Mobile, delivers critical BI information from your enterprise BI applications directly to mobile devices, reusing existing MicroStrategy reports. Session 2 – Easy Intelligence for Every Excel®, PowerPoint®, and Word® User – MicroStrategy Office Would you like to “have it all” without leaving your favorite Microsoft® Office application? Now every Microsoft Office user can run, edit, and format any MicroStrategy report directly from within Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Microsoft files can become live repositories of corporate data, continually linked back to the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform. See how easy it is – with one click – to refresh data across all reports from the simple MicroStrategy Office toolbar via your favorite Microsoft application. We will review and demonstrate a variety of usage scenarios, including customizing presentations and performing offline analysis with MicroStrategy Office. Session 3 – Ensuring Data and Report Integrity in Your BI Environment – MicroStrategy Integrity Manager Verify data and report integrity after making changes that impact your data warehouse and BI environment. Automated report integrity checking provides confirmation that warehouse data integrity is not breached by ETL or functions run against warehouse tables. In addition, automated comparison of report data, SQL, and graphs allows administrators to efficiently verify object migration and software upgrade success, further verifying data and report integrity after any change to the environment. Session 4 – Data Mining and Advanced Analysis for Your BI Applications As more organizations leverage their enterprise data to optimize decision making, the ability to use advanced analytics has become a requirement in order to remain competitive. MicroStrategy includes a rich set of out-of-the-box analytical capabilities that companies use to improve business performance. Everyone from “analytical amateurs” to “rocket scientists” can take advantage of techniques that turn sophisticated analysis into competitive advantage. Come and learn more about how you can use MicroStrategy analytics in your BI applications.
Track 2: Dashboards, Visualizations, and Information Delivery
Power users and report developers learn tips and techniques in this track for creating Pixel Perfect™ enterprise reports, dashboards, and scorecards with MicroStrategy. Through demonstrations and examples, attendees will learn how to build dynamic dashboards and banded enterprise reports using MicroStrategy. In addition, attendees will learn how to create proactive information deliveries that distribute personalized business information to users via e-mail, printers, and file servers. Session 1 – Building Interactive Scorecards and Dashboards – MicroStrategy Report Services MicroStrategy provides business users a highly intuitive interface for creating all types of scorecards and dashboards. See how easy it is to build effective and visually appealing dashboards through a Web browser interface, while advanced dashboard developers will learn best practices for building dashboards and dashboard templates for deployment across the enterprise. This session will demonstrate scorecard and dashboard creation, focusing on MicroStrategy Report Services’ dynamic HTML capabilities. Session 2 – Advanced Visualizations for Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards One of the major innovations that bring MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards to life is the use of Adobe® Flash® for quick interactivity and advanced visualizations. This session focuses on MicroStrategy Report Services’ new Flash controls for building scorecards and dashboards. You will learn how the use of Flash allows intuitive interactions and advanced visualizations in dynamic dashboards, for online or offline analysis. You will learn how to use advanced visualizations installed with MicroStrategy 8 Release 11 (v8.1.1) such as Interactive Stacked Area Charts, Bubble Chart, and Heatmaps to visualize data in ways beyond the standard grids and graphs. Session 3 – Building Interactive Enterprise Reports – MicroStrategy Report Services Learn best practices and advanced techniques for designing highly formatted enterprise reports that may span hundreds of printed pages. This session will devote time to both the end user and the report developer roles, and will include demonstrations of operational workflows via document drilling, dynamic images, and advanced usage of multiple data sets. Session 4 – Creating Advanced Information Delivery Applications Using MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server offers customers a robust architecture to build applications that proactively send information to end users via e-mail, printers, and file servers. In this session, you will learn techniques for building sophisticated applications, including dynamic recipient personalization, automatic slicing of data based on user profiles, and output device configuration.
Track 3: Industry Best Practices: Deployment Strategies and Solutions
Successful companies in every industry are improving their business operations with better business decisions when they use MicroStrategy for reporting, analysis, and business monitoring solutions. Learn how leading companies developed their BI strategies, successfully deployed multiple projects across their enterprises, and achieved return on their BI investment. Customer Keynote – KeyBank: Evolution of Business Intelligence Business intelligence solutions, by nature, constantly evolve to reflect the changing needs of the business, the capabilities of the software/hardware, and the data health of an organization. As such, a good business intelligence solution is predicated as much on flexibility as it is on efficiency. Data management becomes the DNA of the BI solution and facilitates the evolution of content delivery. Hear how KeyBank is engaged in guided discovery with BI clients, and is better able to anticipate BI needs rather than simply respond to them. Learn how KeyBank is staging data accordingly to provide the best probability of success. Session 1 – Allstate Investments, LLC: Enabling Financial Reporting Through MicroStrategy Allstate Investments will discuss how it leveraged the MicroStrategy platform to meet the need for increased financial reporting required due to volatile market conditions. Hear how MicroStrategy was utilized to meet the new GAAP FAS157 reporting requirement, as well as other newly required disclosures. The presentation will continue with a discussion on the role of data quality in reporting successes, and will focus on planned financial reporting enhancements using MicroStrategy Office. Allstate Investments, LLC is an indirect wholly-owned investment management subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The Allstate Corporation is the nation’s largest publicly held personal lines insurer. A FORTUNE® 100 company, with $156.4 billion in assets, Allstate sells 13 major lines of insurance, including auto, property, life, and commercial. Allstate also offers retirement and investment products and banking services. Allstate is widely known through the “You’re In Good Hands With Allstate®” slogan. Allstate was founded in 1931 and became a publicly traded company in 1993. Session 2 – Victoria’s Secret Direct: BI Reporting and How We Play the Game This session will feature the business intelligence infrastructure at Victoria’s Secret Direct (VSD) and how MicroStrategy’s features and functionality successfully provide a BI solution for a growing business. Gain insight into data warehouse configurations, BI applications, and strategy used to support the ever changing needs of the business. Where other planned solutions failed to deliver for various reasons, MicroStrategy was chosen as the BI standard; learn how VSD leverages MicroStrategy as the go-to solution for BI reporting and analytics across the Limited Brands organization. Through Victoria’s Secret Catalogue and VictoriasSecret.com, Victoria’s Secret Direct reaches more than 390 million customers each year through Victoria’s Secret Catalogue – and its Web site is one of the fastest growing and profitable e-commerce destinations on the Internet Session 3 – Carpio Solutions: Moving to Performance Management 2.0 with MicroStrategy Most organizations spend too much time using disparate data sources and manual processes to collect and prepare information and not enough time on proactive modeling and predictive analysis required to improve performance. They have limited automation, control, transparency, or audit compliance with their current systems. Carpio will discuss the challenges with traditional budgeting, planning, and forecasting approaches and provide a brief introduction of the GesFinTM CPM Suite for MicroStrategy, a seamlessly integrated plug-in for MicroStrategy. This session will summarize how MicroStrategy customers can take advantage of easy to use, graphical wizards to model complex, driver-based, formula-driven scenarios in real-time at all levels of the organization and the CFO’s office. Carpio is a Global MicroStrategy partner and provider of comprehensive performance management (CPM) solutions. Carpio enables financial and operational performance transformation for organizations through its GesFinTM Performance Management Suite, a Web-based solution for planning, budgeting, forecasting, workflow, modeling, scenario planning, and profitability analysis. Session 4 – Southport Services Group: Doing More with Less – BI in Today′s Economy In this challenging economic climate, companies are tightening their budgets and monitoring performance closely. BI projects that don’t meet their objectives are at risk. In this session, we’ll describe a methodology to put you on the fast track to value. We’ll review lessons learned and show you how you can deliver BI projects that live up to their promises – and reduce your costs. Southport Services Group, LLC 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.
Registration & Terms and Conditions Each Full Conference Registration Fee includes:
Conference Policies: Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Policy The MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Symposium features information on upcoming product releases, product strategy and other proprietary information. You are required to have an executed Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) on file in order to be admitted to the event. Conference Payment Policy Registration fees must be paid in full prior to attending the MicroStrategy BI Symposium. You will receive a payment receipt once your credit card is processed. Please contact customer service at 703.848.8787 or email symposium@microstrategy.com with questions or if you need further information regarding the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Symposium. Conference Confirmation Policy Registration will not be confirmed until full payment has been received. Please contact customer service at 703.848.8787 or via email at symposium@microstrategy.com with questions. Conference Cancellation Policy Conference cancellation requests must be submitted in writing on company letterhead and received by September 28, 2008. All cancellation requests will be subject to a $50 service charge. Cancellation requests received after September 28, 2008 or no-shows are subject to the full registration fee. All refunds will be issued after the conference. Please fax all written cancellation requests to 703.852.7157. Paying by Credit Card The Web server will generate an interim acknowledgement, containing a Reference Number for your records. You will receive final confirmation once your credit card is processed and payment is complete. Conference Substitution Policy Substitutions for the conference will be allowed at any time. Substitutes must work for the same company as the original registrant and payment information must stay the same. Substitutions are not valid for existing conference registrations. Please contact customer service at 703.848.8787 or email symposium@microstrategy.com for more information. |
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