MicroStrategy 10.4 New Features

Highlights of MicroStrategy 10.4:

New features introduced in MicroStrategy 10.4 Desktop Analytics (Standalone tool):

• Smart Defaults - Desktop now has an updated look-and-feel that modernizes the appearance of dashboards to provide an improved user experience.  
• Dynamic Links - You can create dynamic links to external content in a Grid visualization.
• Combine Dashboards - You can now import multiple dashboards or reports to a dashboard as new sheets, while retaining the original formatting. This feature allows you to quickly and easily share dashboards and reports. 
• Imports from databases can now be cancelled, which allows a user to stop an import process that is frozen or that takes longer than expected.
• Desktop includes an enhanced interface for browsing, importing, and deleting custom visualizations:
• To browse the Custom Visualization Gallery on MicroStrategy Community, click the blue + button (located at the bottom of the Visualization Gallery) and choose Browse Gallery.
• To import a custom visualization, click the blue + button (located at the bottom of the Visualization Gallery) and choose Import Visualization.
• To delete a custom visualization, right-click the custom visualization in the Visualization Gallery and choose Delete. 
• For graphs, you can now specify values outside the minimum and maximum value range to maintain a consistent scale over time, even if the data is republished and the minimum and maximum values change. 

Top 5 MicroStrategy Blogs

Blogs are great resource sites where experts share their expertise and experience on multiple topics and also respond to readers with queries related to those. In this article we have listed the Top 5 MicroStrategy blogs which are currently available in internet. not only much knowledge would be gained by subscribing to new articles or posts from these blog but also it makes a great read to go through the old posts available there. 

I did that and found the blogs to be superbly informative on different concepts. Hope you would also enjoy the same.

What are the new features in MicroStrategy 10.2?

Since launching MicroStrategy 10 in June last year, MicroStrategy has been regularly scaling up on its new platform and releasing *.1 incremental version almost every quarter. Recently they have launched MicroStrategy 10.2. 

In this post we will have a high level look at the new features or enhancements which are available in this release.

A collection of MicroStrategy whitepapers

Scattered all over the internet there are tons of information on every possible BI tool available in the market. The information is there in multiple forms such as blogs, whitepapers, videos, tutorials and others. In my quest to bring some amount of order in this chaos, I always try to organize information in a meaningful manner which would help us to get them fast when we need to refer them.

How many it has so happened to us that a particular white paper which we remember having read or downloaded could not located at the appropriate time when the same needs to be referred.

Download MicroStrategy Guides, Tutorials and other resources

Hi All,

While doing research on multiple features of the tool and also while work, we encounter a lot of free resources freely available over the internet. However most the time we really do not book mark them and they really get lost. And next time we end up searching them once again investing precious time and energy.

Here is an attempt to consolidate resources related to different topic on MicroStrategy freely available on the internet. I would continue to refine this page with time as we progress.

Free Online Resources on SAP BI

This is a list of various resources available openly over internet. The links contain wealth of information on different technologies and can be leveraged.

If you happen to find any resource link which is of interest and importance, please do surely let us know. 

1> This presentation outlines a set of criteria and requirements which can be used to select the right SAP Business Objects tool stack.Considering the multiple available options suggesting the right tool to the customer is of utmost importance.

Click Here

2> Xcelsius 2008 general best practice guide: Click Here

3> Click here to find a dump of all the SAP TechEd sessions from 2006 till 2009. These are good educational  sessions and contains e-learning as well.