An Open Letter to Tableau Software: You Need to Support the Ability to Create...
It happened again this week. I have internal business partners who are eager to move from tools like Excel, Power BI, and SSRS to Tableau Desktop. But, again, I would have a hard time doing so because...
View ArticleTableau Community Spotlight: An Interview With Ken Flerlage
Readers: Today, I am blogging my interview with Ken Flerlage, one of the most creative creators of Tableau data visualizations in the industry today. Ken has worked in information technology for...
View ArticleCalling Bullshit on the 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI & Analytics Platforms
Readers: Around this time every year, friends and colleagues start e-mailing me images (see above) of the 2017 Gartner BI and Analytics Magic Quadrant (referred to as the MQ). In the past, when I...
View ArticleCognos, RAVE and D3: An Interview with Cognos Paul
Within the worldwide Cognos community, when you ask someone who to turn to about some special trick or complex feature you need to implement, the first name that comes out is Cognos Paul (Photo,...
View ArticleBryan Brandow: Triggering Cubes & Extracts using Tableau or MicroStrategy
Bryan Brandow (photo, right), a Data Engineering Manager for a large social media company, is one of my favorite bloggers out their in regards to thought leadership and digging deep into the technical...
View ArticleBryan’s BI Blog: MicroStrategy vs Tableau
Readers: Bryan Brandow, has posted his second new post on his new blog, Bryan’s BI Blog and it is a doozy. Bryan does an in-depth comparison of MicroStrategy vs. Tableau. Here is a link to the...
View ArticleData Blending: Why are Some Metric Values Blank in Documents Using Multiple...
Introduction Starting with MicroStrategy Analytics Enterprise 9.4.1, Report Services documents can contain grids with objects coming from more than one dataset. Multiple Datasets in a Single...
View ArticleHow Data Blending Affects the Analytical Engine’s Behavior in MicroStrategy...
With the release of MicroStrategy Analytics Enterprise 9.4.1, the Analytical Engine logic has been enhanced with respect to joining data from multiple datasets in a Report Services Document. One of the...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Data Blending – Part 6 (Data Blending using MicroStrategy)
Readers: In Part 5 of this series on data blending, we reviewed Tableau’s Data Blending Architecture. With Part 5, I have wrapped up the Tableau portion of this series. I am now going to post, over the...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Data Blending – Part 5 (Tableau’s Data Blending Architecture)
Readers: In Part 4 of this series on data blending, we reviewed Tableau’s Data Blending Principles. We also reviewed an example of data blending in Jonathan Drummey’s Patient Falls Dashboard. [3]...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Data Blending – Part 4 (Data Blending Design Principles)
Readers: In Part 3 of this series on data blending, we examining the benefits of blending data. We also reviewed an example of data blending that illustrated the possible outcomes of an election for...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Data Blending – Part 3 (Benefits of Blending Data)
Readers: In Part 2 of this series on data blending, we delved deeper into understanding what data blending is. We also examined how data blending is used in Hans Rosling’s well-known Gapminder...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Data Blending – Part 2 (Hans Rosling, Gapminder and Data...
Readers: In Part 1 of this series on data blending, we began to explore the concepts of data blending as well as the life-cycle of visual analysis. Today, in Part 2 of this series, we will dig deeper...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Data Blending – Part 1 (Introduction, Visual Analysis...
Readers: Today I am beginning a multi-part series on data blending. Parts 1, 2 and 3 will be an introduction and overview of what data blending is. Part 4 will review an illustrative example of how to...
View ArticleMichael Saylor’s MicroStrategy World 2014 Keynote Presentation
Click on image to watch presentationFiled under: Keynote Presentations, Michael J. Saylor, MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy World
View ArticlePRIME: MicroStrategy Announces Release of Cloud Based, In-Memory Analytics...
MicroStrategy Cloud’s New Parallel Relational In-Memory Engine (PRIME) Provides High Performance On Big Data Allowing Companies to Build High-Scale, Easy-to-Use Information Driven Apps Las Vegas, NV,...
View ArticleMicroStrategy to focus on customers, not ‘PowerPoint slides,’ at...
Source: Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service, PCWorld, Business & Finance Software Paul Zolfaghari President, MicroStrategy While some vendor conferences can end up mired in technical minutiae,...
View ArticleHas MicroStrategy Toppled Tableau as the Analytics King?
In a recent TDWI article titled Analysis: MicroStrategy’s Would-Be Analytics King, Stephen Swoyer, who is a technology writer based in Nashville, TN, stated that business intelligence (BI) stalwart...
View ArticleData Archaeology Selected as One of the 2014 MicroStrategy World Dashboard...
Hello Readers: I just found out I am one of the 2014 winners of the MicroStrategy World Dashboard Contest. I was also one of the winners last year. I get a free pass to MicroStrategy World in Las Vegas...
View ArticleMicroStrategy Introduces Free Analytics Tool for the Desktop
MicroStrategy Analytics YouTube Video – Click Here Last Tuesday, October 22, 2013, MicroStrategy revamped and expanded its line of BI software to incorporate big-data analytics and desktop...
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