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MicroStrategy 201
Visual Insight
Presenters: John Hackbart, Information Management
Steven Liebler, MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy 201
Visual Insight
Agenda:
1. Community of Practice (CoP)
2. Visual Insight
3. Self Service
4. Demo
5. Questions

MicroStrategy Community of Practice

Overview

Offerings

The MicroStrategy Community of Practice (CoP) provides a way for Deloitte practitioners
to collaborate on and share knowledge about the MicroStrategy Business Intelligence
suite. This includes access to certification training, project qualifications, project content,
eminence documentation and the expertise around these technologies.
Mission: Enable practitioner collaboration and access to certification training, project
qualifications, project content, eminence documentation and the expertise around these
technologies.
Benefits: Training, eminence, SNET demo machines
Training:
Deloitte practitioners have access to MicroStrategys complete online training catalog
In-person and on-site training is available (now free)
Solutions/Demonstrations:
Providing MicroStrategy engagement support to various federal and commercial
clients
Customer use case prototypes in progress
Developed the following solutions: Retails Store 2.0, Media and Entertainment
Budget Performance Dashboard, Department of Motor Vehicle Operational Analytics

MicroStrategy
Community of Practice

MicroStrategy CoP on
Yammer

DTTGlobalMSTRCoP
@deloitte.com

Deloittes MicroStrategy Capabilities

Deloitte has a total of 283 practitioners with some level of exposure to MicroStrategy. The MicroStrategy
Community of Practice (CoP) was created to act as a Center of Excellence for training, thought
leadership development (whitepapers/POV), creating demonstrations, developing solution prototypes,
and providing expertise to client engagements.
Resources by Country
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*Numbers as of 8/1/14
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MicroStrategy Partner Portal

Deloitte practitioners have access to the MicroStrategy Partner Portal available at:

1.
2.

Register as a Partner to Access MicroStrategy Content using your Deloitte email

at https://resource.microstrategy.com/ResourceCenter/partners.aspx
View all available content at partners.microstrategy.com

Sales Materials
Product brochures
Sales presentations
Product & Platform
Overview Materials
Architecture materials
White papers
Features
Product FAQ

Dashboard Materials
Dashboard library
Support & Download Site
Knowledge base of technical information
Discussion forum with user community
Access to repository of MicroStrategy
products
Online Education
Free 24/7 access to 200+ hours of
online education courses

The Three Pillars of Analytics in One Unified Platform

Discovery
Analytics

See and understand data in

minutes. No IT needed.

Analytical
Applications

Purpose-built apps to revolutionize

business processes.

Data
Publishing

Enterprise reporting and

data distribution.

Enterprise-Grade Foundation
Big Data

Performance

24/7 Access

Flexibility

Trust

Analyze all
enterprise data.

Speed and unlimited

scalability.

Web, mobile, or
desktop.

Deploy on-premises
or in the cloud.

Governed data that

business can rely on.

MicroStrategy Analytics Platform

SELF-SERVICE ANALYTICS
Empowering everyone with rapid-fire
data exploration and dashboarding

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MicroStrategy Self-Service Analytics Empowers Users

Lightning fast insights, easy for everyone

Stunning
Visualizations

Instant
Query Results

Effortless
Dashboards

No IT
Needed

Cutting Edge Map Analytics Included Out-of-the-Box

Cutting-edge geo-analysis with comprehensive features

Density maps

Markers and clusters

Animations

Skins and
cartographic overlays

Layers

Shapes

The Power of Data Integration in the Hands of Every User

Access and combine data from multiple sources on-the-fly

More Productivity

Source 1

Data blending eliminates IT dependency, making

multi-dataset analytics 100x faster for business

Finance
Data

Source 2

Source 3

Sales
Data

HR
Data

Data Blending

Combined Data

GAAP revenue per sales rep

Actual performance versus target

Most valuable reps

(revenue - compensation cost)

Climate impact on product sales

Much more

Source 4

Public Data
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Enrich Every Analysis with Added Insight

Enrich with
Weather Data
Impact of weather on game
outcome and attendance
Professional Sports

Enrich with
Demographic Data
Product popularity by
demographic segment
Product Sales

Enrich with
Social Data
Cross-brand affinity to determine
promotions or bundling offers
Marketing Promotions

Business User Access to 1000s of Data Sources

Faster access to your data

Enterprise
Applications

SAP, Oracle e-Business,

Siebel, Peoplesoft, etc.

Relational
Databases

Oracle, SQL Server,

MySQL, Teradata,
Netezza, etc.

CloudBased Data

Salesforce.com, NetSuite.
Facebook, Eloqua, Google
Docs, etc.

Quick Data Import

Personal or
Departmental

Big Data &

Hadoop

Spreadsheets, Access
databases, CSV, public data
downloads, etc.

Cloudera, Hortonworks,
Amazon Elastic MapReduce,
MapR, etc.

MicroStrategy
Modeled Data

Enterprise-certified singleversion of the truth

No SQL or Scripting

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Publish Dashboards to 1000s of Users Without Fear

Value Chain
Enterprise
Team

Department
PUBLISH

10s
Visual Insight
dashboard

100s
1,000s
10,000+

Proven Server
Scalability
Built-in clustering,
failover, and
comprehensive
administrative tools for
performance optimization

Automatic
Content
Personalization
Users only see the data
theyre entitled to see,
and only access
functionality they are
authorized to use

In-Memory
Performance
Tested sub-second
response times on
web and mobile,
even at highest user
volume and
concurrency

Advanced
Monitoring
Tools
Admin tools to
monitor, report and
alert on system
utilization

Promote Self-Service Dashboards into Production

Tightly coupled self-service and production supports the full lifecycle of analytics

Create insight! Quickly prototype

or crowd source agile dashboards
Export from Visual Insight to
Document Editor for pixel-perfect
design
Add production features:

Custom branding

Multimedia content

Transactions

Decision workflow

Prescriptive analytics

Real-time data

FAST, LOW-IMPEDANCE
PUBLISHING

Deploy to thousands with

enterprise-grade security and
scalability. Monetize insight!

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Tight Integration of Self-Service Analytics and Production BI

With MicroStrategy, business agility and governance coexist

Move Seamlessly between Styles

Visual Data
Discovery

Standalone

Dashboards

Reports and
Statements

Advanced
Analysis

OLAP Analysis

Production Business Intelligence

Only MicroStrategy Delivers Agility and Governance

Common metadata for trusted single version of the truth
Flexibility for business to quickly work with new data

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Governed Data
Discovery:
MicroStrategys Answer To
The Future of The Analytics
Marketplace

Gartner Believes the Future is Governed Data Discovery

By 2015, enterprise buyers of BI platforms will

predominantly purchase platforms that support both
strong and broad business-user-accessible data
discovery capabilities and IT-driven enterprise features
for data reuse, governance, security, and scalability.

2013 MQ for BI and Analytics Platforms

Market Dynamics Are Creating New Tensions

VS

Business guy.

IT guy.

Needs answers fast.

Concerned about security

and governance.

Standalone Data Discovery Tools are Problematic

Islands of analytics
with untrusted data

10s to 100s of dashboards

and reports per island

Big
governance
problems

You cannot run the business on bad data.

No Need to Choose Between Agility and Governance

Business Agility
Easy to get started.
100% self-service.
Highly productive for the
business analyst.

Enterprise Features

&
OR

Trusted, reliable data.

All analytical styles for all
consumers of information.
No performance or
scalability limits.

Governed Data Discovery From MicroStrategy

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Business and IT Working Together

Business guy.

Business users
create their own
analysis

Dashboards used until IT

certified copies are ready

Business starts using

certified copies

IDENTIFY

PROMOTE

Needs answers fast.

MONITOR
IT guy.
Concerned about
IT Maintains
securityData
andGovernance
and gradually grow BI projects

governance.

MicroStrategy is More Powerful for IT

Publishing for Reuse

Publish certified data sets,
metrics, or starter dashboards

Monitoring
Monitor business user activity

Data Access
Controls

Object
Access
Controls

Functional
Controls

And Smarter for Business

User-Defined
Permissions
Business users define their own access
controls over dashboards they create
(read, edit, copy, modify, etc.)

Data Watermarking
Users visually watermark data by source
to identify lineage

MicroStrategy
doesnt hold you back when your needs
evolve beyond basic data discovery.

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