High Performance BI Webcasts
Complete Webcast Series
Expert Speakers Include:

Pedro Arellano,
Director, Performance BI,
MicroStrategy
Pedro is responsible for MicroStrategy’s efforts to continuously elevate the performance levels of our customers, leading consulting and education programs and collaborating with engineering initiatives. Pedro brings twelve years of MicroStrategy experience supporting 1,000s of real-world High Performance BI implementations, including roles as Director of Professional Services and Senior Director of Worldwide Technical Support.
Suhrud Atre,
Product Manager,
MicroStrategy
Suhrud is MicroStrategy’s authority on SQL generation and system tuning, having spent time developing the product in the MicroStrategy Technology and Product Management departments. He has implemented the software at numerous customers as a senior consultant.
Jochen Demuth,
Senior Product Manager,
MicroStrategy
Jochen leads the MicroStrategy High Performance Initiative meeting with our largest customers and directing tests in our state-of-the-are performance lab to ensure MicroStrategy delivers the speed and capacity necessary for the most demanding BI applications.
MicroStrategy is pleased to offer a series of educational Webcasts with practical tips to enhance the performance of your MicroStrategy BI applications.
The Webcast series will provide key information on areas such as:
- How to improve performance with in-memory technology
- Best practices with VLDB settings and optimizations
- Caching strategies
- Optimal configuration settings
- Aggregation techniques
- How to optimize report and dashboard design
- Hardware considerations
- Best practices for performance and stress testing
High Performance BI Webcast Series: Topics & Descriptions
Part 1: Employing In-Memory for High Performance BI
This in-depth Webcast focuses on In-Memory BI as an accelerator that can deliver over 275,000 reports per hour while averaging speeds of less than 2 seconds per report.
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Part 2: Designing High Performance Dashboards
This Webcast will offer dashboard design best practices to enterprise report and dashboard developers. Learn how data sets, panels, selectors, grouping, text boxes, shapes, grids, and graphs impact the performance and size of MicroStrategy Report Services dashboards and enterprise reports.
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Part 3: Optimizing Query Efficiency for High Performance BI
High performance BI starts with optimizing SQL queries to retrieve results from the database as quickly as possible. Learn how to generate the most efficient SQL query using report design techniques, VLDB properties and optimizations, and database performance enhancers.
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Part 4: Implementing Caching Strategies for High Performance BI
Caching reports and dashboards is the fastest way to accelerate BI performance, often achieving 1-second response time. Learn how to implement effective caching strategies that achieve high performance BI while accounting for the realities of limited resources.
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Part 5: Tuning the MicroStrategy Environment for High Performance BI
A scalable, high performance BI architecture must ensure excellent query performance even as more users, functionality, and data are added to the system. Learn how to tune the MicroStrategy platform to efficiently use server resources such as memory, processors, and disk storage.
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MicroStrategy High Performance Business Intelligence
The MicroStrategy BI platform is engineered to adapt to accelerating demands for information, enabling organizations to expand business intelligence to growing end user communities with rapid access to data via desktop, Web, and mobile applications.
As part of MicroStrategy’s commitment to ever-increasing performance levels, the company has deployed focused resources, programs, and a state-of-the-art laboratory to extend the MicroStrategy platform’s high scalability and excellent performance to deliver even faster BI applications. Find out more about high performance BI on the MicroStrategy platform.