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Conditional alerts in MicroStrategy…. that to not using Narrowcast Server

Ashish Tiwari — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:39:55 +0000

Last week, one of our clients had hugh increase in the sales numbers. Everyone in the BI team gets reports regarding data; data load status, etc as soon as it is over. Local team was a bit amused and prima facia client ath “finally Christmas sale has picked up”. Wow.. but when ETL team looked [...]

MicroStrategy is such a pussy

Ashish Tiwari — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:07:12 +0000

I know that MicroStrategy, Inc is very much pissed off by me not handing over the .IN and .CO.IN domains, but they have been very nice confirming the registration for events held. I really liked it. But looks like recent bash of speaker of event held on did not go too well with them. I [...]

MicroStrategy Cloud online (free)

Senthilraj — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

In case if anyone wants to do dashboard mockup quickly, here is the link to build instant dashboards using Excel (using multidimensional view data) quickly; https://cloud3.microstrategy.com/MicroStrategy/servlet/mstrWeb (Not sure for how long it’s free and public)

Intelligent Cube : Incremental Cube Refresh

Senthilraj — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:48:40 +0000

Data Refresh Options: Full Refresh: Same as in 9.0.1. Whole report will be refreshed Dynamic Refresh: Data will be refreshed based on the filter on Cube Example: let’s say cube filter has ‘Today minus 5 days’ Assume cube published on 18th of September So the Cube will hold data from Sept-13th to Sept-18 What happens [...]

Microcharts as Tree View Selector

Sorin Suciu — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:00:23 +0000

Apparently this functionality has been there for quite a while, but I only chanced upon it recently. Microcharts are not only an awesome way of displaying tons of data in a meaningful way, but they can also be used as a tree view selector. Try to imagine how would it be to use a combination [...]

MicroStrategy Integration with Google Maps (Custom Visualizations)

Senthilraj — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Recently i tried the google maps integration with report/document and here are my inputs and some defintions with the help of MicroStrategy Main Features : Google Maps can viewed as regular maps Threshold can be used you can select single or multiple locations in the map and that can be used as filter Prerequisites : [...]

Intelligent Cube – Part-1

Senthilraj — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 16:17:10 +0000

Intelligent Cubes: An Intelligent Cube is a set of data that can be shared as a single in-memory copy, among many different reports created by multiple users. Rather than returning data from the data warehouse for a single report, you can return sets of data from your data warehouse and save them directly to Intelligence [...]

Metadata Browser Source Code

Sorin Suciu — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:03:30 +0000

Good news everyone As I no longer have time to work on Metadata Browser’s development, I decided to do what I should have done a long time ago – publish the source code! Have fun with it, and don’t forget to make your updates available to the community Download the source code. The code is [...]

MicroStrategy Mobile is launched in India

Ashish Tiwari — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:56:15 +0000

I reached Hotel Lalit, the Intercontinental by 8:45 AM after having started some ETL jobs in office, a stone’s throw away. MicroStrategy Mobile launch was happening in a hall which was two levels underground. As I reached for registration stall, I was greeted by helpful staff who promptly handover me an ID batch (pre-printed). Pre-registration [...]

MicroStrategy 9.2 is available

Senthilraj — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:03:26 +0000

MicroStrategy 9.2 is available Key Features * Mobile – Ipad/Iphone * Import/Migrate objects from any BI tool * Google Map in Dashboard * Encrypted inputs in Command Manager * Incremental load in IntelligentCube I’m Studying and working on POC/Demo on each features….will upload one by one soon…..if any one doing the same, email me….lets share [...]