Microstrategy Security – Part 1

There have been a lot of questions to me around what kind of security can be set in MicroStrategy.  One of the most requested is allowing access to certain users to specific reports.  The answer is Yes we can limit access to reports based on user/user groups.  The ty

CoffeeCast – Video – MicroStrategy World – Summary

Michael and I finally had a moment to sit down and collect our thoughts after our great week in Las Vegas. Our highlights are: MicroStrategy World General Mobile BI – extending Business Intelligence Visualization – ability to garner insight Lessons learned – customer

Scan MD/MD Doctor

When working with Microstrategy there is a chance for the metadata to become corrupt.  There are 2 types of errors; Physical or Logical.  Scan MD is the tool to recover from logical inconsistencies where MD Doctor fixes physical errors. The recommendation is that Sca

Business Intelligence is More than Just Reporting

One of the major take away items, for me, at last week's MicroStrategy World conference, was the broader scope of business intelligence.  In my mind, because of what I'd been exposed to, I thought business intelligence was all about getting your data to the point where y

MicroStrategy World 2010 – What did You Learn

Had a great week Las Vegas this week at MicroStrategy World 2010. Michael our VP Consulting and I went down with very different objectives, so I thought I would share with you the evaluation of how I did against objectives (rank is out of 10 with 10 being high).  Maybe you could

The Emergence of Mobile Business Intelligence

I was listening to the keynote speech here at the MicroStrategy World conference (follow it live via this social media equipped page) at the start of the day and I was really excited by the keynote that was delivered by MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor.  The reason I was excited

CoffeeCast – A quick summary of Keynote of MicroStrategy World 2010

Michael and I are down in Vegas for MicroStrategy World and enjoying the time so far.  After a quick bit to eat, Michael and I were chatting about the Keynote and I said let's just do a quick podcast.  So here We are. Keynote Session Gwen Stefani opening songs Saylor o

MicroStrategy Partnership – Video Announcement

Hi folks, While down at MicroStrategy World we at Project X Ltd are talking about our evolution into a Global agreement with MicroStrategy for Advisory and Systems Integration Services.  We are pretty excited about this and hope you will join in with both agreeing and disagreein

Better Business Intelligence = Better Business Results

 A short while back I saw that the Aberdeen Group conducted a study that found that organizations using MicroStrategy realized stronger sales growth than peer companies who were not using the BI suite.  The full details of the report can be read here in this press release

MicroStrategy Automaton…

We're always looking for the least effort, manual or otherwise, the easiest one to get to, the low hanging fruits, it is human nature after all. That's not necessarily a bad thing though as long as the purpose is achieved without too much of a compromise. I say compromise beca