Webcasts

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...

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...

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...

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.

Web Analytics Integration That Takes Your Analytics and Visualizations To the Next Level

Please join MicroStrategy, Informatica, and Lunexa for this on-demand webinar to learn more about the latest technology and techniques that bring online and offline data together to enable advanced web analytics. Learn more about a pre-packaged solution from Lunexa that accelerates each phase of development and implementation - including database design, ETL and reporting - to create a solution across diverse data sources, such as SiteCatalyst, and enable the analytics and insight that can take your business to the next level.

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...

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...

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.

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. Read More...

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...

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.

Join the Move to MicroStrategy

Learn the secrets. Be the next BI rock star.

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...

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...

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.

Double Your Assets Under Management by Giving Your Customers the Best Mobile Wealth Management Application

Step into a new era and discover why technology is the new driver of growth in wealth management.

Learn how Apple Crushed Microsoft with Great Design and Apply those Lessons to Your Mobile Apps

Mobile consumer apps have raised the bar on all application design. They exhibit superior qualities in graphical layout, fit and finish, and ease of use than any previous application model. These same standards can apply to business apps too. This webcast will focus on how to apply simple design techniques to provide your users with exciting and compelling enterprise apps, which can be on par with the very best apps in the app stores.

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.

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...

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...

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.

Mobile Communication Means More Revenue

Join Investment Advisor for a live, interactive webcast, sponsored by MicroStrategy, and hear from industry experts regarding how to successfully bridge the technology/investment advice divide. Register for this online-only event and learn how to drive revenue by utilizing mobile technology.

Building Multi-Lingual Apps using a code free Mobile App Platform

Build any information-driven Mobile App code free using the MicroStrategy Mobile App Platform. Hear from Craig Mueller, Mobile Product Manager, as he shows how easy it is to use this capability, and demonstrates multi-lingual MicroStrategy powered apps.

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.

Build iPhone and iPad Apps that Increase the ROI from existing BI and ERP investments

This webcast will feature a detailed showcase of a new web and iPad-enabled analytics solution for hospitals and healthcare systems called IRM, or Intelligent Relationship Marketing. Guest speaker True North Custom Media and development partners from the University of Miami Health System will demonstrate t heir IRM App and associated platform for healthcare marketing and analytics.

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...

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...

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? Come hear firsthand from two MicroStrategy cloud customers – Haniel and Tapjoy, about their business challenges, and why they chose MicroStrategy Cloud for their BI projects.

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.

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...

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...

Building a Secure Cloud BI Environment

Hear from John Howie, COO, Cloud Security Alliance, as he explains how to create a secure BI cloud environment.

BI in the Cloud: Blue Skies or Storms?

Business intelligence (BI) in the cloud was once a strategy for niche vendors. Now mega vendors and solution providers recommend the cloud as a way of lowering your infrastructure costs. But is it ready for prime time? Are concerns about security and loss of IT control valid? Join this webcast to learn more!

BI in the Cloud: Blue Skies or Storms?

Business intelligence (BI) in the cloud was once a strategy for niche vendors. Now mega vendors and solution providers recommend the cloud as a way of lowering your infrastructure costs. But is it ready for prime time? Are concerns about security and loss of IT control valid? Join this webcast to learn more!

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

Alert: Bring a World-class Mobile Commerce and Loyalty App to Market in a Matter of Weeks

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.

Use Social Network Data to Drive Advertising and Media Choices

Marketers and advertisers face an intimidating array of options for gathering useful data about their consumers. By combining data from social networks and other online sources in one holistic, easy-to-use, real-time research tool, MicroStrategy Wisdom cuts through the clutter to reveal instant insight. Learn how MicroStrategy Wisdom can influence marketing, advertising, and media mix planning decisions. In this webcast, you will learn: Read More...

Combine CRM Data with Social Network Data to Create Never-before-seen Insights into Your Customers

MicroStrategy Wisdom unlocks an unprecedented new dimension of consumer research. Businesses can extend the extensive, accurate and up-to-date consumer data available in Wisdom with their own CRM and loyalty systems to get a powerful view of their customers never before possible. In this webcast, you will learn: Read More...

How Big Data from Social Networks Can Change the Way You Do Marketing

For the first time in history, enough data exists in social and other big data cloud networks to assemble the most extensive market intelligence network of people and their connections to every product, place, celebrity, interest, and activity in the World. MicroStrategy Wisdom is the first network to unlock this unprecedented new dimension of consumer research. In this webcast you will learn: Read More...

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...

Finally, Protection That College Students Will Want To Use

The highly mobile population and free sharing of resources on college campuses make security and access control extremely difficult to maintain. In this type of environment, proximity cards, student identity cards, and system passwords easily can be lost, stolen, and counterfeited. Read More...

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...

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: Usher^TM, 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...