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Run MicroStrategy, not SAP BusinessObjects, on Top of SAP HANA
MicroStrategy provides a certified and well-integrated BI platform on SAP HANA. This Webcast will focus on benefits that a customer gains by running MicroStrategy on top of SAP HANA compared to other BI vendors . Understand the different ways through which MicroStrategy can connect to SAP HANA and leverage key features of SAP HANA, providing flexible and more efficient solutions for Mobile and Web BI. In this Webcast you will learn: Read More...
- The top five reasons to use MicroStrategy on SAP HANA
- How MicroStrategy handles key features of SAP HANA
- How MicroStrategy Multisource combines SAP HANA data with other corporate data sources
- How to Import Data from SAP HANA to leverage Visual Data Discovery and enable self-service BI
- Build Exciting Mobile applications on SAP HANA
Introducing MicroStrategy 9.3.1: Agile Visual Analytics Meets Comprehensive Enterprise BI Platform
With MicroStrategy 9.3.1, the old compromise between business agility and system-of-record governance and scale is a thing of the past. Find out how MicroStrategy 9.3.1 brings the blazing speed and effortless usability of visual data discovery to the industry’s top-rated enterprise business intelligence platform. This new release features a streamlined user interface so business users get amazing visualizations, quick self-service dashboards, and the ability to instantly connect to and analyze any data source, without any need for data modeling or IT involvement. Read More...
Power users benefit from major new enhancements that make it easier than ever to leverage advanced and predictive analytics. Other platform improvements include upgraded metric governance features, new administrative features to reduce total cost of ownership, and performance enhancements for big data analytics, including optimized access to Hadoop-based data. Register now to discover more about what makes 9.3.1 the best MicroStrategy yet!
Millions of Reports. Millions of People. MicroStrategy Distribution Services
Improved in MicroStrategy 9.3, MicroStrategy Distribution Services greatly extends the reach and value of your enterprise reporting application. MicroStrategy Distribution Services securely and efficiently distributes personalized reports and dashboards, triggered by data-driven alerts, via e-mail, print or file. Read More...
Learn how end-users are empowered to easily subscribe themselves and others to reports and dashboards, all through the familiar interface of MicroStrategy Web. See how personal end-user created alerts are easily created based off of the users report data, and how these alerts empower users to get alerted to the information important to them.
Performance Issues? Queries Lasting Longer than 4 Hours? Get Big Data and Big Performance with MicroStrategy on Top of Hadoop
Big data and MicroStrategy go hand-in-hand. Now with Hadoop, extremely large volumes of data can be analyzed and visually explored without the need writing any code, something that was not possible earlier. Furthermore, other relational and multidimensional data sources can be combined with Hadoop data giving unprecedented analytic capabilities, and MicroStrategy's in-memory architecture dramatically improves performance for corporate users. In this webcast, you will learn: Read More...
- Hadoop and its role in the enterprise
- How MicroStrategy integrates with Hadoop and its various distributions
- Leverage MicroStrategy's Multisource capability to combine Hadoop data with other corporate data sources
- Use MicroStrategy's in-memory technology to accelerate Hadoop query performance
- Hear directly from Cloudera on their new Impala technology and how customers are using Hadoop
May the Force be with you: Unlock you must the power of sales force data with MicroStrategy
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Sales Force Automation (SFA) tools are used in almost every company and organization around the world. While offering adequate operational reporting, these systems often fall short in enabling users to answer all of the questions they need to in order to excel in a data driven business. In this webcast, join Product Managers Michael Rahm and Yee Huang to learn how MicroStrategy solves this issue with its advanced analytical platform. Read More...
Integrating with SFA tools, such as Salesforce.com, and even merging that data with any other data in your organization, is easy with MicroStrategy's out-of-the-box connectors. Unlock your data with advanced analytical functions and stunning visualizations that are easy to build and can provide your entire organization the answers they need.
What would you pay for tomorrow's news? MicroStrategy Advanced and Predictive Analytics
Business Intelligence has always been about turning raw data into useful information. But, in this era of Big Data, it's not enough simply to capture all those bits. You also need analytics to derive understanding and insight. Studies have shown that organizations that inject analytics into their operations are seeing significant improvements in profitability and productivity. Read More...
One of MicroStrategy's best kept secrets is its ability to create sophisticated descriptive analytics as well as predictive models that can help organizations understand their business and their customers better. These features are included standard with the platform, so anyone who can create a metric using MicroStrategy can also create rich analytics without requiring any additional tools or licenses. This webinar will cover several use cases that involve creating and deploying analytics using MicroStrategy, including the ability to deploy analytics from the R open source statistical environment.
The Only Dashboard Platform You'll Ever Need
Dashboards remain an incredibly important part of an organization's use of data for business efficiency and monitoring. The demand for them has grown from all sides of the organization, including your store managers, sales people, business analysts, and executives. However, with new demand, comes extra complexity in expectations, needs from dashboards, and extra time requirements on dashboard developers. Read More...
Organizations today need a dashboard platform that is flexible enough to handle the needs of the technical community as well as the business user, do-it-yourself community. MicroStrategy is the best platform at making companies successful with dashboards, no matter who is using them. In this webcast, you'll hear from MicroStrategy product managers as they discuss the full spectrum of dashboard needs and how MicroStrategy makes it possible to deliver them all, as well as enabling the path between them.
Dashboard Technology That Can Drive Better Decisions and Grow With Your Organization
As data volumes continue to grow exponentially, dashboards remain an incredibly important part of a financial institution's use of data for business efficiency and monitoring. Lately, the demand for dashboards has grown from all sides of the organization. However, with new demand, comes extra complexity in expectations, new needs and extra time requirements for developers. Gone are the days of static reports and dashboards. Read More...
Today users want a fully interactive experience and drill-anywhere functionality. Banks also need a dashboard platform that is flexible enough to handle the needs of the technical community as well as the business user and can be scaled across the entire organization. Join Wall Street & Technology senior editor Melanie Rodier and MicroStrategy to learn how decision-makers can create flexible, interactive dashboards from any data source and how to future-proof your dashboards to meet the growing needs of your organization.
MicroStrategy 9.3: The Best BI Software Platform Yet!
Hear how YAHOO!, GT Nexus, and Lancet plan to use MicroStrategy 9.3 to improve business monitoring, decision-making, and user adoption.
Dashboards and Visual Discovery: More than Just Pretty BI
Dashboards help everyone from managers to sales people monitor multiple indicators at a glance. Appealing visualizations are more than just executive eye-candy. They enable alignment, insight, and action for workers at all levels of an organization. Initially, IT had to custom develop dashboards, but with new modules such as visual data discovery, business users themselves have moved to assemble their own dashboards to mash data together from different data sources. Read More...
In this webinar, industry analyst and author Cindi Howson highlights trends in dashboard usage, best practices for when IT or the business should develop dashboards, and industry innovations influencing dashboard design. She will present mini case studies of how leading companies have evolved from reports to powerful dashboards. MicroStrategy will demonstrate how it empowers organizations to successfully deliver both types of dashboards - both business-user-created, do-it-yourself dashboards and IT-created, operational dashboards - from one, single platform.
In this informative webcast, you will learn:
- Dashboard use cases and the differences of when IT or the business should create dashboards
- How mobile and cloud are influencing dashboard design
- The role of visual data discovery
- Insights from three leading companies on their journey to dashboards
Enabling Data Discovery: The Path to Self-Service BI
Data discovery empowers business people by helping them find meaning in otherwise raw, hard-to-understand data, eliminating the dependence on the IT organization. It gives people freedom to explore information visually, using solutions that enhance comprehension and enable self-service. In this webcast you will learn: Read More...
- How data discovery helps business people become self-reliant and reduce their dependence on IT.
- How companies today are leveraging data discovery to enable self-service BI.
- How MicroStrategy helps Novation deliver data discovery capabilities to business users.
- What steps you can take to deploy data discovery within your own organization.
Visual Analytics: Self-Service Data Exploration
Join us to learn how anyone in your organization can get answers quickly and easily from their data without help from IT using MicroStrategy Visual Insight. Learn how Visual Insight lets you create and interact with data visualizations to explore and make sense of your data.
Introducing MicroStrategy 9.3: Visual Exploration. Big Data. Dashboards. Analytics.
Enhancements to the MicroStrategy Platform feature ground-breaking upgrades to Visual Insight including new data visualizations enhanced interactivity, and faster dashboard creation. The improved MicroStrategy Platform will include numerous updates for Big Data, including better performance, expanded analytics, and new administration tools for lower total cost of ownership. Join this webcast to learn the new capabilities added in MicroStrategy 9.3.
BI in the Cloud: Blue Skies or Storms?
This Webcast, BI in the Cloud: Blue Skies or Storms?, describes the different approaches to cloud BI, with definitions of public versus private clouds, platform as a service, and software-as-a-service. The speakers give a who’s who in cloud BI with unique insights from a recent survey. You will learn:
- How BI in the cloud works
- Definitions and architectures for cloud BI
- State of the industry on adopting cloud BI
- Pros and cons of deploying in the cloud
Visual Data Discovery and Self-Service Dashboards for Business People with Guest Speaker: Novation
Join us to learn how Novation, the health care industry's leading supply contracting company, is using MicroStrategy Visual Insight to allow business people to create highly visual dashboards and get answers faster from their data, with no help from IT. Hear from Novation's Melinda Gardner, Vice President for Strategic Information, on their experience and success with MicroStrategy Visual Insight. You'll also hear from MicroStrategy product experts as they explain and demonstrate how Visual Insight enables business people to visually explore data and build dashboards in less than 10 minutes.
Introducing A Faster Way To Visualize Your Business Data
See technological breakthroughs that enable business users to get business answers quickly and easily. MicroStrategy product experts will highlight and demonstrate the following key features of the latest MicroStrategy release: Read More...
- Business Insights in Under 30 Minutes – Tired of waiting for answers? You now have the power to answer business questions in minutes using innovative data visualizations with absolutely no IT assistance.
- Personal Data – Upload your own data and quickly spot outliers, uncover problems, and detect patterns and trends.
- More Interactive Dashboards – With the addition of simpler controls, MicroStrategy dashboards keep getting easier to build and use.
- Faster Access to Data – Now even faster and easier to update your reports and dashboards with your latest operational data.
- Improved Data Access – Combine data from even more original sources with your warehouse data, including multidimensional sources like SAP and Microsoft Analysis Services.
Intro to Business Intelligence Webinar: Business Insight and Intelligent Decision-Making, Anytime, Anywhere
An introduction to the latest in Business Intelligence, discover how your organization can implement and benefit from professional-looking dashboards, mass reporting, data discovery, and self-service reporting with visually compelling views into key performance measures relevant to your business.
MicroStrategy 9 Release 3 Launch Webcast
MicroStrategy 9 Release 3 lets you explore your data in compelling reports and dashboards via iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Web, and more. New features include data import, reusable dashboard and mobile apps, expanded mapping capability, and more Mobile enhancements.
High Performance BI Webcast Series
MicroStrategy is pleased to offer the High Performance BI Webcast Series of educational Webcasts with practical tips to enhance the performance of your MicroStrategy BI applications. Each Webcast in the series focuses on new aspects of developing or fine-tuning BI environments for faster BI applications, growing numbers of BI applications, increasingly high data volumes, and expansive user communities: Read More...
- Part 1: Employing In-Memory for High Performance BI
- Part 2: Developing High Performance Dashboards
- Part 3: Optimizing Query Efficiency for High
MicroStrategy OEM Partners "Deep Dive": Data Mining Services
This OEM “Deep Dive” Webcast focuses on creating advanced analytics and deploying them to users throughout the enterprise; increasing the value of your MicroStrategy-based OEM Solution by combining advanced analytics and business intelligence; and examining a range of descriptive and predictive applications for analytics and how they can help elevate the intelligence of even casual users, simply and safely.
Cool BI: 2010's Emerging Innovations
The business intelligence tools market continues to bring innovations that have made BI more engaging, insightful, to an increasingly broad spectrum of users. In this TDWI Webinar, BI Scorecard founder Cindi Howson and MicroStrategy will cover such topics as rich reportlets (Flash, Ajax), advanced visualization, in-memory analytics, and mobile BI. Webinar sponsored by MicroStrategy.
BI for Finance: Transforming the Finance Department from Record Keepers to Strategic Advisors
Wayne Eckerson examines how finance can employ BI to correlate financial outcomes with business activities and lead the organization in its quest to achieve strategic objectives. This TDWI Webcast is co-sponsored by MicroStrategy.
Top 5 Strategies for Business Intelligence Success in Today's Economic Environment
Leading BI industry and MicroStrategy experts discuss the strategies for BI success in today's economic environment in this live, one-hour Webcast. Learn about best practices for SMB and departmental BI implementations and see demos of MicroStrategy Reporting Suite. Featuring Cindi Howson, Founder of BIScorecard and presentation from customer Time Warner.
Leveraging the MicroStrategy SDK to Integrate MicroStrategy into a Custom Application
This technical "Deep Dive" Webcast focuses on how partners can use the MicroStrategy SDK and the MicroStrategy SDK Visualization framework for custom BI application development. Read More...
- Part 1: Customizing using Web Customization Editor
- Part 2: Integrating with Custom Portals
- Part 3: Building Custom Visualizations / Mashups / RIA / Adobe AIR Applications
Migrating from MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server 8 to MicroStrategy Distribution Services 9
This technical "Deep Dive" Webcast will highlight how to successfully migrate existing web subscriptions to MicroStrategy Distribution Services, and clarify the relationship between MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server and MicroStrategy Distribution Services.
Extending the Boundaries of Business Intelligence
Learn more about the impact of MicroStrategy 9 on the performance, scalability, and efficiency of enterprise BI through live demonstrations of new product features and functionality. Leading retail customer GUESS, Inc. will also be on hand to share dashboard and mobile application design tips from their latest MicroStrategy deployments.
Cool BI Revisited: New Innovations
Cindi Howson, leading analyst and founder of BIScorecard, reviews some of the latest industry innovations that will allow BI to reach more users, based on the right tool for the right person. This TDWI Webinar is sponsored by MicroStrategy.
Critical Success Factors in Deploying Pervasive BI
Featuring presentations and demonstrations by MicroStrategy CTO Jeff Bedell and Informatica CTO James Markarian.
Performance Dashboards: Next Generation
Explore new advances in performance dashboard theory and practice with the latest insights from Wayne Eckerson, a leading industry analyst and author of Performance Dashboards: Measuring, Monitoring, and Managing Your Business. This TDWI Webinar is sponsored by MicroStrategy.
Strategies for Optimizing Your Business Intelligence Experience
Nigel Pendse, author of The BI Survey 7 and The OLAP Report, presents strategies for optimizing your business intelligence experience. Featuring best practice insights by global network marketing company, Herbalife.
Selecting BI Technology for Enterprise Success: Lessons Learned from Over 1,800 Companies' Experiences
This Webcast is the first in a new series on Topics in Enterprise Business Intelligence and will feature Nigel Pendse, leading industry analyst and author of The BI Survey and The OLAP Survey.
Mobile
Introducing MicroStrategy Mobile 9.3.1: In the Words of Jerry Maguire, it Will Have You at Hello
2. 25. 75. 100. TWO (2) new revolutionary capabilities to change how you do business. TWENTY-FIVE (25) new features that will enhance every MicroStrategy Mobile-powered app you build. SEVENTY-FIVE (75) - With new performance optimizations, every MicroStrategy app will be up to 75% faster. Plus HUNDREDS (100s) of enhancements and optimizations. MicroStrategy Mobile 9.3.1 delivers revolutionary performance, polish and pizzazz to your mobile apps. Read More...
Turn your CEO's wall into a NASA mission control for the business with our new Command Center capability. With Newsstand Integration, securely send new or updated business information to your App overnight so it's ready and waiting for your executives the next morning. Add excitement and professional design touches to your App with new animated splash screens and information windows. Additionally, with MicroStrategy Mobile 9.3.1, great features and extensive functionality previously available only on iOS devices are now available on Android.
Build an App in 1 WEEK that Would have Taken 100,000 HOURS in Custom Code
Learn how MicroStrategy Mobile allows you to easily, and code-free, design and build an enterprise-grade, professional-looking app in 1 week that would have taken 100,000 hours to create using custom code.
Learn how Apple Crushed Microsoft with Great Design and Apply those Lessons to Your Mobile Apps
Crush your competition by creating exciting app designs. This webcast will show you how to apply simple design techniques to build apps on par with the very best apps in the app stores.
Double Your Assets Under Management by Giving Your Customers the Best Mobile Wealth Management Application
The wealth management industry is going through a period of unprecedented change brought on by the financial crisis and exacerbated by the technology revolution. Financial advisors are at the front lines of this change and companies are scrambling to empower their advisors to deliver higher levels of customer service and client growth. Join us to learn how MicroStrategy Mobile is the leading solution for enabling this new era of wealth management.
Build an App in 1 WEEK that Would have Taken 100,000 HOURS in Custom Code
Mobile computing is poised to revolutionize the way organizations deliver, consume, and act on information. The convergence of information and analytics with mobile technology is empowering more and more business people to make hands-on, immediate, and better decisions. Learn how MicroStrategy Mobile allows you to easily, and code-free, design and build an enterprise-grade, professional-looking app in 1 week that would have taken 100,000 hours to create using custom code.
ERP Systems will be Obsolete in 36 months; Bring your Systems into the Post PC era
Learn how you can extend your ERP systems beyond the desktop using MicroStrategy mobile app technology.
Building a Smarter Sales Team
Learn how innovative companies across a variety of industries have deployed Mobile Sales Effectiveness Apps on tablets and smartphones to help their field sales reps sell better, sell more and sell faster.
Intro 2 Mobile BI. Learn how easy it is to build Mobile Apps. Code free
It's easy to build Business Apps using MicroStrategy! Watch as an app is built from scratch without writing a single line of code using MicroStrategy's intuitive, drag-and-drop design interface.
Mobile's Critical Role in the Store of the Future
Join us to learn more about how MicroStrategy and its partner, AT&T, are working together to deliver a single mobile toolkit solution that will lower store infrastructure costs, improve productivity and enable the store's role in omni-channel retailing.
Mobile Store Ops: Global Lessons Learned
Hear the lessons learned from Migros and Obase as they discuss techniques they are using to deliver a well-defined and tangible ROI, while positioning themselves for the evolution to mobile POS and new payment options.
5 Roadblocks to Avoid when Building Mobile Apps for Your Business
Even when you have the best App development tools at your disposal, there will always be the best app developers, and the average app developers. Mirus Australia will discuss their new iPad App for aged care providers in the healthcare sector. Read More...
Hear from MicroStrategy's Principle Mobile Consultant, Devin McPherson, as he shares experiences garnered from helping 100s organizations build success Mobile apps for their Business. Codified into 5 key lessons, Devin explores the 5 Roadblocks to Avoid when building information-driven Mobile Apps. Mirus Australia join the webcast to showcase their new Aged Care Metrics App built to deliver information to decision makers for aged care providers.
Crush your Competition by Making Your Field Sales reps 10x More Effective with MicroStrategy Mobile
Join this webcast to learn how to dramatically increase sales revenue by arming sales reps with tablet apps focused on helping them sell more. Use your existing MicroStrategy software to build tablet apps that arm reps with pre meeting analysis, product videos, sales presentations, and anywhere access to SFA systems. Read More...
During this webcast you'll hear how CEVA, Johnson & Johnson, MetLife, MicroStrategy, and others have deployed Apps to their account reps to significantly increase the effectiveness of their sales teams and crush competition.
Secure Your Apps in 2013 and Beyond With Military Grade Encryption
This webcast showcases the range of OOTB security capabilities when building Apps using a platform like the MicroStrategy Mobile App Platform - or those available to you when deploying MicroStrategy Mobile powered apps via the Good Dynamics Secure container.
Howard Dresner Helps You Take Full Advantage of Mobile Computing
In 2012, Mobile Computing and Mobile BI's impact is now both clear and profound. Come and find out how to profit from this Mobile wave.
Wealth Management Goes Mobile: Providing Financial Advisors with Seamless Access to Documents, Systems and Processes
Hear Steve Cornett, Director of Enterprise Information Services with Lowe's Companies, Inc., explain how regional, district and store managers are leveraging their "mobileDART" application to more effectively manage their stores. Speakers will also share the best practices common to dozens of Mobile Store Operations Application implementations and the attributes that delivered the highest ROI.
7 Key Attributes of High-Return Mobile Store Operations Applications: Featuring Lowe's
A panel of industry experts, including Steve Cornett, Director of Enterprise Information Services with Lowe's Companies, Inc., will share the best practices common to dozens of Mobile Store Operations Application implementations and the attributes that delivered the highest ROI.
New Mobile Capabilities for 2012, with Guest Speaker: Whole Foods
Hear how Whole Foods Market is using Mobile Business Intelligence to balance both individual store effectiveness and regional uniqueness while promoting the efficiencies of "oneness."
Mobile Business Intelligence in 2012 with Howard Dresner
Featuring results from the Dresner Advisory Services Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study.
5 Ways to Accelerate Mobile App Development
Build mobile apps code free, deploy easily to iOS and Android devices. See MicroStrategy Mobile on Android smartphones and tablets.
Introducing Transactional Apps
Accelerate your business using Mobile Apps. Find out how Mobile Transactional Apps can easily extend access to your operational ERP systems - beyond the desk - to the store front, airport, elevator, restaurant, taxi, and beyond.
Top 7 Ways to Mitigate Mobile App Security Risks
Enable secure, critical access to business information by all workers across the enterprise anywhere, anytime.
- Learn how to deliver Mobile BI securely, from data-level security to iOS configuration.
- Experience new ways to move from insight to action by adding transaction to your Mobile apps.
- Participate in live, interactive Q&A on mobile app security.
The New Standards for World-class Mobile BI
See groundbreaking Mobile BI demonstrations and presentations in this webcast. Mobile BI allows workers across the enterprise to access critical business information when they need it, where they need it. Hear from Edmunds.com to learn how MicroStrategy customers are adopting new mobile strategies to deliver unparalleled business value. Read More...
The webcast features keynote speaker Howard Dresner, President and Chief Research Officer at Dresner Advisory Services, LLC, and insights from his Mobile Business Intelligence Market Study.
Cloud
Bulletproof Analytics with the Only Military-Grade Cloud Solution
Organizations know that the Cloud can provide business intelligence (BI) solutions at a pace and cost that are transformational. However, many have held back in the past due to concerns about the security of their data on the Cloud. MicroStrategy Cloud mitigates this risk with state-of-the-art intrusion detection, firewalls, multi-factor authentication and other protective measures to ensure that custome data is always protected and isolated. The level of data and application security with MicroStrategy Cloud is higher than most on-premise deployments. In this session, you will learn about MicroStrategy Cloud's unique and powerful security model and why it is the best choice for your secure enterprise.
Turbocharge Your Salesforce.com Insights and Analytics with Cloud-based BI
Salesforce.com provides powerful solutions to manage sales, marketing and customer data. However, businesses often struggle to analyze and act on the information in Salesforce.com when it is not integrated with other sources of internal corporate information. In this session, learn how organizations can leverage MicroStrategy's Cloud Platform technology to marry the information from multiple enterprise databases with Salesforce.com data to generate a unified view of their businesses and customers, allowing for optimization of their sales, marketing, and support functions.
Prevent Failure: Build Rock-Solid Applications with MicroStrategy Cloud
As BI information becomes critical to the survival of businesses in today's competitive marketplace, organizations must ensure that systems are available 24x7. MicroStrategy Cloud is built from the ground up for rock solid reliability, offering an uptime guarantee of 99.9%. Gain a deeper understanding of MicroStrategy's Cloud architecture and operational approach and why it matters to your business operations. Dig deeper into Cloud's security features and control framework. Learn how a typical Cloud implementation works from initial setup to ongoing support.
Crush your Competition with Better, Faster Information: Real World Successes with MicroStrategy Cloud
Join us for the webcast, "Crush your Competition with Better, Faster Information: Real World Successes with MicroStrategy Cloud." Cloud Business intelligence offers the promise of rapid application deployment, at a low Total Cost of Ownership and with the agility to respond quickly to changing business requirements. But how much of the promise can customers achieve in the real world?
Agile, Fast and Cheap: The Promise of Cloud BI
Join MicroStrategy, reputed independent analyst Cindi Howson of BI Scorecard and Huntington Bank as we explore the rapid emergence of Cloud Business Intelligence and how leading companies are using it to achieve competitive advantage.Through discussion and case studies, you will learn: Read More...
- Why companies from Fortune 100s to SMBs are adopting business Intelligence (BI)
- How Cloud Analytics can make lines of business much more agile and cut time to market
- How customers have saved millions (CapEx and OpEx) deploying analytics through the cloud
- How the MicroStrategy Cloud helped Huntington National Bank to improve customer satisfaction, assure security and lower BI costs while leveraging data to glean new insights
- How to evaluate whether a Cloud solution is right for your organization
Think only the Fortune 50 can afford good BI? Save millions with MicroStrategy Cloud
Cloud-based analytics applications are changing the traditional cost structure of delivering BI solutions by eliminating up-front capital expenditures. Altaz Bhanji, MicroStrategy's Senior Manager of Product Marketing, will elaborate on the hidden costs that add up when building a traditional BI platform throughout its acquisition, development and operational stages. Read More...
He will discuss how MicroStrategy Cloud makes analytics more cost-efficient and less labor intensive for companies of varying sizes. Mr. Bhanji will present a complete comparative model for assessing the cost of a BI project given two alternatives: a traditional on-premises approach and a Cloud-based Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) approach.
Your Secret Weapon in the Big Data War: 20x More Agility with MicroStrategy Cloud
Join us on Wednesday, March 6th, to learn why it is more important than ever to move business intelligence to the Cloud to avoid falling behind competitors and imperiling your enterprise. On-premise BI implementations consume valuable IT and business resources and are fraught with risk. Read More...
MicroStrategy's Director of Product Marketing Bala Chandran will discuss how Cloud based BI allows organizations to be more agile, move faster, lower cost and risk, increase agility and win the war for relevance in today's competitive business climate.
Cloud Analytics Consortium presents: Analytics in the Cloud: Ready for Primetime
Join us to hear knowledgeable and respected industry thought leaders as they discuss their views about how organizations can best prepare for success with DW/BI solutions in the cloud. Highly reputed independent analyst Howard Dresner who brings 30+ years of IT and BI experience will participate on the panel to provide valuable insights on the future of cloud-based DW/BI solutions. Read More...
Howard will be joined by senior executives from best-in-class technology organizations including Informatica, MicroStrategy, Netezza, ParAccel and Teradata.
Join us to learn:
- Why more companies are changing to cloud-based DW/BI
- Solutions for security, performance, and reliability
- How to evaluate whether a cloud DW/BI solution is right for you
- Cloud adoption or migration strategies for any size business
Aim High: Why ‘Enterprise’ Cloud Will Change Information Management
Join us on for the re-play of this very popular webcast where you will hear veteran BI Analyst Wayne Eckerson offer insights on best practices for Cloud BI adoption, and strategies for improving your business with MicroStrategy Cloud. This webcast will also feature MicroStrategy’s Senior Vice President of Cloud Intelligence, Steve Stone.
5 Keys to Success in the Cloud
Cloud Services and solutions have the potential to change the way IT is managed within the retail enterprise. These changes can be material and retailers must plan carefully in order to maximize the benefits and avoid the pitfalls of cloud based services and solutions. In this informative webinar retailers will learn key secrets to success when looking at cloud solutions.
Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Business with Cloud Intelligence
Everything you need to know about Cloud Intelligence in a convenient 30 minute webcast. Watch this executive presentation on strategies for improving your business with MicroStrategy Cloud. Featuring former CIO of Lowe’s, Steve Stone.
Express
Engage Your Customers Now Or Your Competitors Will: Enterprise-Caliber Information Delivery Applications
Organizations are constantly looking for new ways to reach customers and partners with relevant and personalized information. Monthly transaction summaries with individualized promotions based on past purchases, personalized vendor scorecards to improve supplier relationships, quarterly newsletters with localized content, customer invoices, statements, etc. Read More...
There are numerous applications that can help companies generate greater engagement with their audience using timely, personal, and meaningful content. But what if you don't have access to high-scale information delivery solutions, or the expertise to configure and maintain email servers? In this webcast you will learn how MicroStrategy's new product, Express, can help you deliver personalized information automatically to any number of recipients – tens or tens of thousands – with the simplicity of sending an email.
How to Deploy Hypersonic Web and Mobile Intelligence Applications in Less than 1 Week
Business Intelligence has traditionally been the domain of the specialized few. Executives who need information to make business decisions depend on IT experts to gain access to data. But emerging technologies like cloud, mobile computing and data visualization, combined with a more mainstream appreciation of the value of analytics, are creating a new breed of decision-makers. Read More...
They are self-reliant business people who know how to leverage technology to analyze information on their own, dramatically accelerating decision-making to help their companies gain a formidable advantage over their competition. In this webcast you will learn:
- How emerging technologies are making business analytics software more accessible to business people
- Why the way we think about analytics – their application and value – is changing
- How the role of the modern IT organization has evolved
- How MicroStrategy's new product, Express, helps companies accelerate and simplify the use of business analytics
What Top Executives Know That You Don't: Unlocking the Secrets of Agile Business Intelligence
"Information is power" goes the old adage. Timely access to information is essential for decision makers to steer their business by leveraging powerful analytics. However, the tools needed to provide executives with this kind of on-demand insight have historically required specialized training, time, and capital. These barriers to entry have led companies to look for agile BI tools that provide untrained users with the means to become self-reliant, enabling them to access and analyze data without expert assistance. Read More...
In this webcast you will learn how agile BI solutions can help companies deploy analytics without requiring in-house experts or large budgets. You will also be introduced to MicroStrategy's new product, Express, a Software-as-a-Service solution that helps companies deploy web and mobile intelligence applications to thousands of users 20x faster and more cost effectively.
All Data Discovery Solutions Are Not Created Equal: Separate the Tools from the Toys
The Business Intelligence industry has seen the recent emergence of software vendors offering point solutions for agile analytics and data discovery. Aimed at users who want to analyze business data without depending on IT experts, these point solutions promise quick access, ease-of-use, and lower costs. Unfortunately not all BI and data discovery solutions live up to their claims, and business users persuaded by the promise of self-service later find themselves constrained by limitations in these products, realizing they've outgrown their capabilities, or discovering the software is not as user-friendly as claimed. Read More...
This webcast will help business users navigate potential pitfalls when searching for self-service BI software, describing key features to look for when evaluating solutions, and sharing some of the work MicroStrategy is doing in the area of agile analytics and data discovery.
The Next Wave of Business Analytics: How Some Companies Will Ride It While Others Will Drown
Business Intelligence has traditionally been the domain of the specialized few. Executives who need information to make business decisions depend on IT experts to gain access to data. But emerging technologies like cloud, mobile computing and data visualization, combined with a more mainstream appreciation of the value of analytics, are creating a new breed of decision-makers. Read More...
They are self-reliant business people who know how to leverage technology to analyze information on their own, dramatically accelerating decision-making to help their companies gain a formidable advantage over their competition. In this webcast, you will learn:
- How emerging technologies are making business analytics software more accessible to business people
- Why the way we think about analytics - their application and value - is changing
- How the role of the modern IT organization has evolved
- How MicroStrategy's new product, Express, helps companies accelerate and simplify the use of business analytics
Introducing MicroStrategy Cloud Express: Business Analytics for Everyone
MicroStrategy Cloud Express is the industry's first Software-as-a-Service solution designed for "do-it-yourself" analytics, mobile intelligence and data publishing. Eliminating the burden on IT, Cloud Express combines the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based solutions with the analytical depth, performance and scalability of a world-class business intelligence platform.
Alert
Stop trying to sell practice to Allen Iverson. Target your promotions with Alert.
MicroStrategy Alert is a state-of-the-art Mobile Commerce and Loyalty App that can be fully branded for retailers and available for your customers’ iPhone and Android smartphones in just a matter of weeks. Alert includes features that streamline shopping, reward customer loyalty, drive traffic to your stores, and expand your social presence. Read More...
In this session you will learn how your marketing staff can easily create and deliver highly targeted offers and coupons directly to customers using intelligent segments built from your CRM-style customer data in combination with intelligence collected from within the Alert app. You will then see how fast and easy it is to conduct in-depth market research, measure campaign performance, compare offers, and analyze customer and commercial activity across your entire business using MicroStrategy’s world-class BI capabilities.
Honey, I Shrunk the Store - Put Your Store in the Palms of Your Customers' Hands with Alert
Many brick & mortar retailers view smart phones as an ongoing threat to their businesses because any customer can turn the retailer's store into a virtual showroom for competitors. However, retailers have the power to turn this "mobile threat" into a competitive advantage by "shrinking" their physical store into mobile software. With a great mobile app, retailers can move their customers beyond shopping based on price-comparison by providing real-time marketing that personalizes the customer experience. Read More...
Retailers can create up-sell and cross-sell offers based on buying history, current purchases, loyalty status, inventory levels, and current promotions while simultaneously influencing customer behavior that is advantageous to the retailer.
Hello, Retailer. Do you have a mobile app? Does it have at least a 4 star rating? Is it on both Android and iOS? Say yes in 2 weeks or less with Alert
MicroStrategy Alert offers a complete, personalized, mobile-social loyalty application that will delight your customers and increase your share of their wallets. In this presentation, you will learn how MicroStrategy Alert can enable you to run loyalty programs that are more effective and much less expensive, create personalized promotions, content, and messages, and put the power in the hands of your customers with digital receipts and social rewards.
Winning Strategies for Omni-Channel Retailing – Delight Customers by Integrating Loyalty with Mobile Commerce
Change in retail is coming faster than ever before as consumers become increasingly empowered by the internet , mobile smartphones, and social networks. With consumers interacting with retailers from all channels, retailers must ensure that they're delivering a consistent brand experience so all consumers receive the same experience regardless of the channel. To rise above the noise and retain customer loyalty, retailers must provide a value-added in store experience that connects the physical and digital space. Read More...
With the Alert Mobile Commerce app, a retailer can roll out a branded, state-of-the-art mobile commerce app in a matter of weeks. In this session, retailers will learn how they can deliver a complete brand experience across channels that include a mobile storefront, targeted promotions, social loyalty, and digital receipts.
Bring a World-class Mobile Commerce and Loyalty App to Market in a Matter of Weeks
Amazon, Google, and Apple have diverted tens of billions of dollars in profit from retailers over the past several years, not because they are great retailers, but because they are great at software. With a great mobile commerce app, a retailer can level the playing field against the industry giants, by providing the social-local-mobile customer conveniences that online retailers cannot match. Read More...
With the Alert Mobile Commerce Platform, a retailer can bring a branded, state-of-the-art mobile commerce app to market in a matter of weeks. Learn how you can deliver an exceptional brand experience to your customers' fingertips that includes a mobile storefront, targeted promotions, social loyalty, and digital receipts.
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Safeguard Your IT Cybersecurity Practice With Usher Mobile Identity
Cyber security represents both huge risk and opportunity for top System Integration practices. The threat is undeniable, as cyber breaches repeatedly make headlines, yet current security technologies remain so onerous that users unwittingly put themselves at risk when trying to manage them. At last, a breakthrough cyber security solution offers deep security without trading off convenience for the user. Learn how the Usher Mobile Identity Network by MicroStrategy will delight your customers while providing you a new cyber security practice area.
Drive Fraud Out Of Your Healthcare Network With Usher Mobile Identity
When it comes to healthcare, establishing someones identity is critical, both in terms of patient safety and in preventing fraud and abuse. In an environment of increasing specialization and ever larger patient care teams, keeping track of the patient has never been more important. In addition, in challenging economic times with skyrocketing medical costs, the incentives to perpetrate fraud follow a similar trajectory upward. Read More...
The Usher Mobile Identity Network solves this problem for Providers, Payers, and Patients alike, providing a uniform method of conclusively establishing identity for all participants in the healthcare value chain. Learn how Usher will save money and time for both care givers and receivers in a far more convenient manner than physical credentials can do.
I Knew You Were Trouble When You Walked In. Swiftly Secure Your Perimeter With Usher.
The threat of cyber break-in is undeniable and growing every day. Companies spend millions of dollars annually to fight cybercrime, and yet 6,000 cyber break-ins occur every single day. Hackers, cyber criminals and foreign governments are all trying to break into your systems to steal money, identities, and industrial secrets. By far the weakest link in the cyber protection is the password. Read More...
Passwords can be guessed, phished, stolen or misplaced so easily that password disclosure accounts for more than 75% of all cyber breaches. The Usher Mobile identity Network eliminates this gaping cybersecurity hole by replacing passwords with out-of-band time-sensitive codes. Attend this webinar to find out more about how MicroStrategy Usher directly addresses the most difficult problems of cybersecurity, as well as physical access control.
Finally, Protection That College Students Will Want To Use
On the college campus, where sharing and openness is the norm, cyber security threats are all the more likely to succeed. Usher, a mobile identity network, provides safe and easy access to online resources using just a smartphone, the one thing most college students have with them 24/7. Read More...
Moreover, whether on campus or through distance learning, student identity will never be stolen. Come learn how Usher can secure your college or university by delivering protection that students will want to use.
Line Up For Usher, And Skip The Lines At The DMV
Government entities spend valuable time and resources fighting fraud and trying to cut costs. With the Usher mobile identity network, government agencies can adress fraud before it happens. Moreover, they can eliminate waste while dramatically increasing security and services to their constituents. Government entities spend valuable time and resources fighting fraud and trying to cut costs. Read More...
With the Usher mobile identity network, government agencies can adress fraud before it happens. Moreover, they can eliminate waste while dramatically increasing security and services to their constituents.
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt...His Name Is NOT Your Name, Too. Eliminate Identity Theft with Usher
Financial Institutions spend billions of dollars each year protecting their assets and customers from fraud. From ATM and card security to access control for secure areas, as well as access to systems for online and mobile banking, security is a necessity. With Usher Mobile Identity, banks and financial institutions can increase security and dramatically reduce fraud. Join us in a discussion of how Usher can change the way banks and financial institutions do business.
Usher: Strengthen Cybersecurity To Deliver Superior Service To Customers and Employees
Cybersecurity and poor customer service are two persistent problems that unrelentingly plague the enterprise. Fortunately, the Mobile Wave has given rise to a solution: UsherTM, the world's first mobile identity network. Usher transforms activities that previously have been vulnerable to fraud or waste by securely migrating identity, like employee badges, credit cards, cash, and keys to powerful, ubiquitously available smartphones. Read More...
Consumers will adopt Usher mobile identity because it is far more convenient, secure, and safe than traditional identity methods. And the enterprise will adopt Usher mobile identity to reduce fraud, streamline business processes and protect personal identity, avoiding billions of dollars in costs.
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