ICT role in 21st century education and its challenges
What's New with MicroStrategy?
1. Florida User Group Meeting
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MicroStrategy
Overview, Update &Future
James Brandow – Senior Sales Engineer
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MicroStrategy
• MicroStrategy Overview
• New Product and Packaging
• What’s New
• Product Roadmap
3. A Streamlined, Optimized Workflow for Agile
10-50x Productivity for Business Users
Connect Discover Dashboard Share
Quick access to data in
Excel, databases, or
SaaS apps like
Salesforce.com. No
data modeling or SQL
required.
Insight in minutes.
Visual data discovery
puts effortless analytical
power in the hands of
every business user.
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Insight converted to
action. Share dashboards
instantly with colleagues.
Publish powerful
analytical apps to
thousands in days.
Compelling
visualizations combined
to create brilliant
analytical dashboards.
Just drag-and-drop – no
IT needed.
4. Governance: A Dashboard Is Only As Good As Its Data
Be Wary of Style Without Substance
? ?
Data
Attributes
Facts
Metadata
Metrics
Hierarchies
Transformations
Governance is the soft underbelly of standalone
Visual Data Discovery tools like Tableau and Qliktech
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5. A Governance Nightmare
Standalone Visual Data Discovery Tools Create Analytic Islands
10s to 100s of
Dashboards
and Reports
Per Island
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100s or
1000s of
Governance
Issues
x =
Dozens of
Analytic
Islands
6. With MicroStrategy, Agility and Governance Coexist
Promote Unmodeled Metadata Back to the System of Record
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Personal and Cloud-based
Data Sources
Enterprise Data with
Governed Metadata
Business User
2
Access local
or Cloud-based
data
1
Access
system-of-record
data
3 Metadata
Promote dashboard
design metadata to
system of record
Only MicroStrategy harmonizes agility and governance.
7. Build Once, Deploy Anywhere
Competitive Approaches Require Time-Consuming Rework
Web
Browsers Portals Enterprise
Applications
Email
Email
Mobile Documents
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PDF Office
BlackBerry iOS Android
Build
once
Deploy via any media
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2
8. The Industry’s Best Analytics
MicroStrategy Does More, and Does It Better
MicroStrategy vs. Stack Vendors
• Highest overall rated platform
• No areas of weakness
• Superior in self-service BI and data discovery
• Superior in mobile BI
MicroStrategy vs. Data Discovery Point Solutions
• No functional gaps, superior breadth
• Highest-rated overall in self-service BI
“BI Scorecard is the only analyst firm that tests BI suites hands-on, based on over 300 detailed criteria, and with the customer perspective in mind.”
• Superior in mobile BI
-- BI Scorecard, Q4 2012
• Industry’s best architecture
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10. MicroStrategy Platform – Before Simplification
21 products to get full features
Web Professional
Web Analyst
Web – Universal Option
Web Reporter
Mobile
Development and Testing
Developer Architect
Object
Manager
User Interfaces
Office
Server Features Monitoring and Automation
Distribution
Services
Intelligence Server – Universal Option
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Integrity
Manager
Enterprise
Manager
Command
Manager
System
Manager
Intelligence Server
Transaction
Services
Report
Services
Narrowcast
Server
OLAP
Services
Multisource
11. MicroStrategy Platform – After Simplification
Web Professional
Web Analyst
Web Mobile
Web – Universal Option
Web Reporter
Office Mobile
Development and Testing
Developer Architect
Object
Manager
Server Features
Distribution
Services
Intelligence Server – Universal Option
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Integrity
Manager
Enterprise
Manager
Command
Manager
System
Manager
Intelligence Server
Transaction
Services
Report
Services
Narrowcast
Server
OLAP
Services
Multisource
Server
User Interfaces
Architect
+ Monitoring and Automation Monitoring and Automation
4 products to get full features
12. MicroStrategy Platform – Role-Based Packaging
Analysts, Power users
and Web consumers
MicroStrategy Web
(includes Microsoft Office integration)
Mobile consumers
MicroStrategy Mobile
MicroStrategy Architect
(includes development and testing tools)
MicroStrategy Server
(includes email distribution, server features, monitoring and administration tools)
Base server – all user roles
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Developers
4 products to get full features
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What's New
1. Visual Insight
2. Big Data
3. Data Import
4. MicroStrategy Web
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Visual Insight
Modern Look and Feel To the Interface
Undo-Redo
Share
New Icons
Presentation Mode
15. MicroStrategy 9.4
Data Blending
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Personal Data Sources
Relational Databases
Multi-Dimensional Sources
Analysis Services
Excel HADOOP SAP BW
Create Exciting Data Blends from Different Data Sources in One Visualization!
Map Reduce Databases
16. MicroStrategy 9.4
Dozens of Usability Enhancements
• Closing properties does not close Edit Visualization pane
• Thicker highlight for layout rearrangement
• Swap rows and columns button
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17. MicroStrategy 9.4
Support for Maps
MAP SUPPORT
1
2
3
IMAGE LAYOUT
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What’s New
1. Visual Insight
2. Big Data
3. Data Import
4. MicroStrategy Web
19. MapReduce
Databases
Columnar
Databases
DataWarehouse
Appliances
Relational
Databases
Multidimensional
Databases Analysis Services
User / Departmental
Data
Exadata
Higher
Scale
Lower
Scale
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9.3.1
HANA
Big Data
Support for Amazon Redshift
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Big Data
Deploy R Analytics as MicroStrategy Metrics
Outputs
Inputs
Install
MicroStrategy
Intelligence Server
M E T A D A T A
Query Engine
Data Sources
Open Source
One-time Install
Execute R Scripts
No Visual Studio
No Compiling
No Schema Updates
MicroStrategy Data
Results from R
Delivered to any Touchpoint
One Time
Import:
RScript
Functions
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What’s new
1. Visual Insight
2. Big Data
3. Data Import
4. MicroStrategy Web
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Data Import
Intuitive, User Friendly HTML5 Interface
New Icons
Easy Management of
Stored Data
Note: ‘File’ and ‘Salesforce’ imports are still Flash-based
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Data Import
Visually Construct Queries With Import from Database
New Import from Database
HTML5 Interface
Import Data from Database Demo
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What’s New
1. Visual Insight
2. Big Data
3. Data Import
4. MicroStrategy Web
25. MicroStrategy Web
Modern, Fresh, Easy to Use Web Interface
Prominent Button to
Design VI Dashboards
Immediately
One-Click Access To
Folders and Actions
New Icons, Better Layout and Improved Usability
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26. MicroStrategy Web
Metric Creation from MicroStrategy Web Interface
Visually Create a Metric with Function Editor Or…
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1. Expression
2. Level of Aggregation
3. Conditionality
4. Transformation
27. MicroStrategy Web
Expanded Library of Graphs to Reveal Business Insights
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Lipstick Graph
Overlapping Bar
Graph
Waterfall
Graphs
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MicroStrategy Web
Multiple Datasets on One Map (only DHTML Mode in Report Services Documents)
Dataset #1
(Bubble Markers)
Dataset #2
(Push Pins)
29. MicroStrategy Web
Derived Elements
To access Derived
Elements editor run a
report with underlying
attribute > RMC > select
“Derived Elements” > open
a Derived Element
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New Derived Elements Editor in Web
Users can now edit stand
alone derived elements in
Web from within reports
and documents
“Save As…” functionality
and ability to overwrite
definition of existing
derived element
30. MicroStrategy Web
Information Window for Selectors, Text Fields, Images, and Buttons
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Info Window on
Selectors
Info Window on
Buttons
31. MicroStrategy Web
Additional Enhancements
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• Clicking “Save” to save the Report Services document
without closing out of it Save Button*
• Users now have the ability to copy data from a grid report or
grid on document with the native command (CTRL+C) Copy/Paste Data
• Users can now email or copy a link to a report or Report
Share Document URL* Services document. Users can also copy HTML.
• Ability to show or hide nulls and zeros in grid. Toggle
available in Data toolbar or dropdown menu Hide/Show Nulls/Zeros
*Also available in MicroStrategy Visual Insight
33. MicroStrategy Analytics Platform
Top areas of innovation
Analytics for Everyone Analytics Everywhere User Experience Enterprise BI Big Data
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34. Analytics for Everyone
Self-Service analytics
1 Brand New HTML5 Data Discovery Engine
• Redesign the Data Discovery Engine to create a one stop access for all of your
analytics needs
• Incorporating many usability and workflow enhancements based on your
feedback and multiple usability studies
• New architecture will provide you with a better performing, more efficient
workspace
• Accessible by all major browsers with no dependency on third party software
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35. Analytics for Everyone
Self-Service analytics
2 The Power of MicroStrategy Analytics, Just a Click Away
• Create new calculations, generate intelligent trend lines and forecasts, include
reference lines
• Create data group associations with the click of your mouse
• Many other enhancements are being added to provide you with a very
powerful visualization environment that makes it even easier to understand
your data
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36. Analytics for Everyone
Self-Service analytics
3 Simpler Data Access and a Brand New Data Wrangling Tool
• Enrich your dashboards with data, regardless of where it resides
• Paste data from your clipboard, type it directly, or access it from modern data
sources such as Dropbox, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Facebook, and Twitter
feeds
• Prepare your data for analysis with the new Data Wrangling engine
• Review your data, split data into different columns, consolidate values, and fill up
empty cells with just a few clicks – no formulas required
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37. Analytics for Everyone
Self-Service analytics
4 More Ways to Visualize Your Data
• Enhanced library of visualizations available, which now includes combination
and dual axis charts as part of the Graph Matrix control
• Extend the library to include JavaScript-based visualizations such as the
hundreds available from D3
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38. Analytics for Everyone
Self-Service analytics
5 Advanced Formatting and Presentation Options
• Data Discovery engine is not limited to proof-of-concept dashboards or any
other type of quick design.
• Create production-ready, great-looking visualizations and dashboards
• Massively distributed across your user base
• Visually enriched with HTML containers, images, and the ability to format fonts,
lines, and colors at the element level.
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39. Analytics Everywhere
Build once; share and consume anywhere
1 FREE MicroStrategy Desktop, Now Also on Mac
• Light-weight MicroStrategy Desktop application
• All the MicroStrategy data discovery and data cleansing capabilities
• Available for both Windows and Mac
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40. Analytics Everywhere
Build once; share and consume anywhere
2 Access, Explore and Easily Share Your Discoveries
• Explore data on any major environment
• Create dashboards and visualizations on-line or off-line and have the flexibility
of quickly sharing your findings on-premises or in the cloud
• Automatically synchronize your content with your local MicroStrategy
deployment or over the cloud
Auto-sync
Synced content on
Server or Cloud
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41. User Experience
Simple, modern and interactive
1 Simplified and Modern User Interface
• Bring in new data, cleanse it, enrich it, adjust definitions and create brilliant
visualizations all in the same place
• Simplified navigation and creation of visualizations.
• Usability studies that provided feedback for a data discovery environment that is
simple to use for novice users, yet powerful enough for the most advanced and
demanding consumers.
Easy access to
Visualization Library
Simplified menus and toolbars
Updated icons and
themes
Dock-able panes
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42. Enterprise BI
Intelligent administration and efficient deployments
1 Achieve Self-Service Without Falling into Anarchy
• Provide flexibility to your business users to create the analysis and dashboards
they need
• Simultaneously, keep the enterprise production environment current and
accurate by identifying and facilitating the promotion of those analyses that can
benefit your user base
• MicroStrategy provides an easy-to-use environment to achieve true Governed
Data Discovery
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43. Enterprise BI
Intelligent administration and efficient deployments
2 Distribute Development to Lighten Administrator Load
• MicroStrategy Architect through the Web enables administrators to maintain
a distributed development environment
• Multiple architects can work on the same schema simultaneously
• Object-level locking enables multiple users to save changes to the schema
at the same time, even if geographically dispersed
A B
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44. Enterprise BI
Intelligent administration and efficient deployments
3 Centralize Administration From a Unified Interface
• MicroStrategy Operations Manager provides a centralized interface to monitor
performance across all servers
• Administer all MicroStrategy environments
• Improvements in user statistics captured, redesigned user interfaces, and
streamlined data load processes enable timely intelligence about user activities
System
Manager
Unified Administration
Integrity
Manager
Command
Manager
Object
Manager
Enterprise
Manager
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45. Big Data
The power to transform your Big Data into insight
1 Next Generation In-memory Analytics
• Next generation of in-memory technology
• Accelerate analytical applications to provide “Google Like” performance on Big
Data volume
• Partition and process in-memory data using parallel analytic engines that tightly
integrate the data storage layer with the visualization layer
VISUALIZATION LAYER
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
DATA
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46. Big Data
The power to transform your Big Data into insight
• Integration with modern data sources such as Dropbox, Salesforce, Google
Analytics, Facebook and Twitter feeds, Hbase, Cassandra, native HDFS access
and more
• Provide data connectors uniquely optimized for the underlying data source, as
opposed to integration via a basic connection
Databases Big Data
Cloud Data
2 No Data Left Behind
Personal / Departmental
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47. Big Data
The power to transform your Big Data into insight
3 Search on Unstructured and Semi-structured Data
• Search is one of the predominant use cases for analysis of log files, sensor
data, documents, surveys, and other text data available in an organization
• Incorporate a search index as a data source for interactively searching through
semi-structured and unstructured text data
• Present search data alongside other structured data in your applications
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48. Big Data
The power to transform your Big Data into insight
4 Text analytics
• Text analytics is the next common use case with free-form text data
• Text Analytics Module (in beta), allows you to apply semantic and syntactic
models to gather insight from text data
• Recognize sentiment, optimize search engine marketing, and detect fraud,
along with other common use cases of text analytics
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49. Big Data
The power to transform your Big Data into insight
5 Streaming analytics
• Analyzing data-in-motion is another application of Big Data analytics
• Streaming sources such as Apache Storm, IBM Stream, or Amazon Kinesis
allow for real-time analysis of high velocity data
• Use MicroStrategy’s web services connector to streaming sources and real-time
dashboard update feature to create live streaming analytic applications on
structured, semi-structured or unstructured streaming data
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50. Big Data
The power to transform your Big Data into insight
6 Native connectivity to HDFS
• Hadoop is great for data storage and bulk transformations, but interactive query
latency is not yet speed-of-thought
• MicroStrategy’s native HDFS access will support use cases that require high-speed
data transfer from Hadoop into MicroStrategy in-memory for interactive
query workloads
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Editor's Notes
All the speed and productivity and powerful visual analytics that come with data discovery are fantastic, but it’s really important to understand that regardless of how beautiful the dashboard is that the user creates, regardless of how visually compelling it is, a dashboard is really fundamentally only as useful as the underlying data that’s populating it. One of the big challenges with visual discovery technologies that many organizations are experiencing now is that there’s always a danger that the data that’s populating their dashboards -- the attributes and the facts that are contained in that data as well as other metrics and hierarchies that are embedded as one-offs into each individual dashboard design -- that these things are not based on timely or accurate data, or are defined improperly. If the building blocks of a dashboard are incorrect or are subject to debate, then fundamentally that dashboard becomes useless. So having the functionality to manage and qualify source data, and manage the metadata associated with every dashboard, and govern that information so you know that it is the correct version of the truth and you can rely on it -- that’s fundamentally critical.
Standalone data discovery tools like Tableau and Qliktech don’t give you the ability to govern the data and metadata that sits below every dashboard that exists.
So what ends up happening is you create a governance nightmare. You get these stand alone, analytic islands that exist with every implementation of a standalone visual data discovery tool. As you might imagine, the more teams or departments or business units throughout your organization adopt these technologies, the more standalone islands that you have, every one of these islands is creating tens or hundreds of different dashboards and reports and as a result, what you’re effectively doing is you’re creating hundreds or thousands of potential governance issues throughout your organization.
With MicroStrategy, we’re proceeding from a fundamentally different perspective and we have a set of core functionality that the standalone data discovery vendors just don’t have. Over the course of many years, we’ve developed the industry’s most robust and most functional metadata management and governance layer. One of the key things that you’re able to do with MicroStrategy’s visual discovery tools is access data that’s effectively system of record data. It is already managed and governed as the single version of the truth for the organization. You just bring that data into the visual discovery environment, take advantage of all the fantastic usability and visual capabilities of Visual Insight, and build and deploy your dashboard once its ready.
At the same time with MicroStrategy, you also have that flexibility and agility to import from data sources like Excel, or connect ad hoc to local databases or Cloud-based sources like Salesforce.com and then bring that into our data discovery environment. Now the challenge there is, of course, that the data you import is not part of the enterprise system of record. But what you can do is you can take that data, map it to governed metadata and promote the dashboard design back into the system of record. Only MicroStrategy can do that and as a result, only MicroStrategy is capable of harmonizing the concept of agility and governance throughout the organization. It’s an extremely powerful concept – the effortless speed of agile analytics meets the power of system-of-record BI.
One of the remarkable things about the MicroStrategy platform which other competitive platforms don’t offer is the ability to build once and deploy anywhere. Because MicroStrategy employs a unitary architecture that was designed organically from the ground up and wasn’t cobbled together from multiple acquisitions, basically what we enable our customers to do is build a report or dashboard once and then deploy it across any media without having to rebuild it for every individual delivery format.
So we can deploy that particular dashboard or report to any browser, embed it or components of it in a portal or other enterprise application, send it by email, or deliver it via the most popular mobile devices, including Android, IOS and Blackberry. You can also deliver it through documents; into PDF documents or directly into Power Point, Excel, or Word. It’s a very powerful feature that enables any organization to get the maximum value out of its data by delivering it in the widest possible mode.
As I mentioned before, MicroStrategy is widely recognized by analysts as having the industry’s best analytics and you can see here with the BI Scorecard report, which based on an independent analyst firm’s evaluation of major BI suites using hands-on criteria, measuring the performance and capabilities of those suites across a variety of different dimensions.
As you can see, across the board MicroStrategy achieves the highest scores in the BI scorecard in a diversity of different functional categories. In particular, if you compare MicroStrategy to the mega-vendors (IBM Cognos, Oracle, and SAP BO), you can see that MicroStrategy is the highest overall rated BI platform. There are no major areas of weakness with MicroStrategy technology stack. MicroStrategy has a strong lead versus the megavendors in the very important and emerging self-service BI and data discovery area, which is the hottest area in the market right now. You can see here that MicroStrategy is also ranked number one by a strong margin in the critical area of Mobile BI. As you might imagine, that’s another hot area in business intelligence generally, and it’s critical from a vendor selection perspective because mobile devices are rapidly changing the way business intelligence is being deployed throughout organizations, making it easy to deliver data and analytics to more users, more immersively and in more impactful ways.
If we shift gears here and compare MicroStrategy to the data discovery vendors, ranked here as specialty vendors, you can see some really significant functional gaps emerge. These vendors are typically employed in organizations as point solutions to solve niche problems. Their functional range is very restricted versus full BI platforms and in particular, versus MicroStrategy. The key takeaways here, as you can see from this analysis, is that MicroStrategy has no functional gaps compared to these vendors. We have a superior architecture and superior in mobile business intelligence. But it’s probably worth noting that even in their area of strength, general self-service BI, MicroStrategy achieves superior ratings versus both of the data discovery point solutions.
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