1. Accelerating
MicroStrategy for
Real-Time BI
Web Seminar
14 February 2013

2. Web Seminar
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Kognitio was a Gold Sponsor at MicroStrategy
World 2013 in Las Vegas – see details online.
More info on today’s topic:
• kognitio.com/bi‐accelerator
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3. Today’s Web Seminar: Kognitio Cloud
Format & Agenda
• Brief Overview – Kognitio and the Kognitio In‐Memory Analytical Platform
• Kognitio & MicroStrategy – the working partnership
• Demonstration ‐ MicroStrategy reports & dashboards run on Kognitio
• Q&A ‐ open discussion
Presenters
Host
Michael Hiskey
Vice President, Marketing &
Business Development
Keynote Presenters Dr. Trevor Dobbin
Dr. Sharon Kirkham Senior Systems
Kognitio Analytics Center of Consultant
Excellence

4. Kognitio
Kognitio is focused on providing the
premier high‐performance analytical
platform to power business insight
around the world
• Kognitio invented the in‐memory analytical
platform, first taking it to market in 1989
• Privately held
• Labs in the UK ‐ HQ in New York, NY

5. Kognitio: Analytical Accelerator for MicroStrategy
Engage Big Data and enable Hadoop
without changing your database
Analytical Platform acceleration:
Comprehensive
• Real-time, full data volume, new sources, cross-correlation
Flexible
• Enable self-service for every departmental need with
MicroStrategy
Universal
• Standardize connections without custom coding

6. Traditional technology
Application &
Client Layer
All BI Tools All OLAP Clients Excel
Reporting
Persistence
Layer Hadoop Enterprise Data Legacy
Clusters Warehouses Systems

7. Kognitio is the “Golden Layer” technology
Application &
Client Layer
All BI Tools All OLAP Clients Excel
Analytical Reporting
Platform Near-line
Storage
Layer (optional)
Persistence
Layer Hadoop Enterprise Data Legacy
Clusters Warehouses Systems
Kognitio
Storage

8. Demonstration
MicroStrategy Sales and Kognitio version
Distribution Analysis Module
Total 970 MILLION transactions in fact tables
Small Kognitio cluster in the Cloud
2 fact tables
26 dimension tables
77 reports Microsoft Access version
Total 970 thousand transactions in fact tables
6 documents/dashboards
Common server with MicroStrategy

9. Demonstration

10. Demonstration

11. Kognitio & MicroStrategy

12. End-user demands drive increased complexity
MicroStrategy’s wide range of functionality enabled by Kognitio
I want to be able
to specify
specific groups
for analysis
Custom
groups with
prompted filters
And / Or
Report based on
Report
A platform that
performs

13. End-user demands drive increased complexity
Kognitio designed to run demanding mixed workloads in memory
I need a
dashboard
containing x,y,z.
Oh and a,b,c too
Dashboards
requiring more
queries and
passes over data
A platform that
performs

14. End-users demand drive increased complexity
Kognitio scales for big data in memory
I want this
insight over
all our clients
Reporting over A platform that
big data performs

15. End users demand more flexible access
to more data
This dashboard
These reports are gives great top
useful but I want to level insight but I
be able pick and want to get into the
choose content. details.
More flexibility
Complex
document
development
More complex
query
submission
A platform that
performs

16. Intelligent Cubes
Kognitio enables faster builds and more flexibility to move beyond
Time Constraints Space Constraints
Kognitio enables
Faster cube build Flexible reporting
off non-aggregated
data
Shorter batch
windows
Ability to drill
More frequent beyond cubes
cube refreshing

17. Enabling MicroStrategy
Intelligent Cubes

18. Intelligent Cube Demo Hierarchy
Geography Time Demographics
Region Year Demog Group
District Month Demog Desc
Location Date
Data contains Cube build is
over all data
1.6 billion
Demog Desc
individual credit card Transactions Producing Trans Count,
transactions Spend Spend and Credit amounts
Credit by region, month
over ~ 10 years
and demographic
Month

19. MicroStrategy performance with Kognitio
1.8 4
1.6 3.5
Query Speed relative to median Kognitio speed
Report speed relative to median Kognitio speed
1.4
3
1.2
2.5
1
Max
2
Median
0.8
Min
1.5
0.6
1
0.4
0.5
0.2
0
0 SQL Server Kognitio
Teradata Kognitio
Bigger is better!

20. Kognitio is the “Golden Layer” technology
Application &
Client Layer
All BI Tools All OLAP Clients Excel
Analytical
Platform Near-line
Storage
Layer (optional)
Reporting
Persistence
Layer Kognitio
Storage Hadoop Enterprise Data Legacy
Clusters Warehouses Systems

21. Kognitio and MicroStrategy:
Leveraging a successful relationship
Kognitio is certified and supported for MicroStrategy BI
• Rapid PoC environments available
• Specialized benchmarking and optimizations
• Production clients with fantastic results
MicroStrategy Partners enabled to perform rapid
implementations with near-term results:
• New dashboards - Direct to mobile
• Cloud and on-premises
– Appliances or simple, x86 software
• Find out more:
– visit http://www.kognitio.com/bi-accelerator today!

22. Get started now for FREE
Try it now: http://www.kognitio.com/free

23. Thank You!
Get Started: visit http://www.kognitio.com/bi-accelerator today!
connect contact
kognitio.com
Michael Hiskey
Vice President,
kognitio.com/blog
Marketing & Business Development
michael.hiskey@kognitio.com
twitter.com/kognitio
Dr. Sharon Kirkham
linkedin.com/companies/kognitio Kognitio Analytics Center of Excellence
sharon.kirkham@kognitio.com
tinyurl.com/kognitio
Dr. Trevor Dobbin
Senior Systems Consultant
youtube.com/kognitio
trevor.dobbin@kognitio.com