MicroStrategy World 2016 Key Notes or tidbits

I am happy to share my experience of me sitting @home and watching the videos that MicroStrategy has released regarding the MicroStrategy World 2016 @Miami.. I missed to attend it but will be soon attending the coming MSTR World if it happens to be…  Here are my tidbits taken from the MicroStrategy World 2016 @Miami – Happy Reading! Still lot more to learn for me from the MicroStrategy World 2016 – eager enough to do that 🙂

Michael J. Saylor introductory speech was awesome with Huge demo’s

I was really excited on hearing out Mike speech about MicroStrategy vision and tracks for MSTR World – few tidbits are below:

 – Hadoop connectivity with D3
 – Salesforce connection live
 – Data Wrangling
 – Multi sourcing – reengineering with demonstration by Huge
    > Cube to RDBMS swift & then from RDBMS to Big Data swift (wow)
    > Seemless navigation to different datasources with MicroStrategy
 – Adaptive Data Model
    > Move data from one database to other Database or cloud (Redshift/Amazon cloud) or Big Data
    > (i.e.) Move data to new location without impacting reports, dashboards and projects
    > Minimal Impact & Minimal Rework
 – HTML5 Web Analytics
     > HTML5 client experience optimally rendered across all modern browsers
 – Advanced Analytics (Favourite subject for Mike & to everyone too 🙂 )
     > Sophisticated Predictive Models
     > 1000s of R Models import in seconds
     > SAS/SPSS – PMML Models
     > Powerful SQL Engine and 350+ Analytic functions (which MicroStrategy having it always for decades)
 – Mapping (Passion for Mike 🙂 and for me too in using Maps to analyze data with interactivity in Maps)
     > Map Features: Drill, Filtering, Derived Geographies, Layering of Multiple Datasets
     > Map Out of Box : Markers and clusters, Density, Custom Shapes, Areas
 – Amazing Visualizations
      > D3
      > Open source charts/graphs
 – Mobile Productivity
      > Design and Build Mobile App in 50 minutes

 – Usher Access
       > Frictionless Access
       > Bio-metric security
       > Automatic lock of machines when we step out
       > This is taking the technology beyond the thoughts or way advanced – big appreciation note to the entire USHER Team & MicroStrategy for bringing this innovation out in market
 – Embedded BI
       > School Report card – integrated with their website and render Dynamically
       > Cool integration and enabling to print pixel perfect document
 – In Memory Analytics
       > Upgrade Cubes (30 secs to 1 secs, 3 mins run cubes to 5 secs ) – eager enough to see these
        > Data Upload – 4 to 5 times faster
        > 10x performance improvements
        > High performing in-memory engines
 – High Performance Applications
        > 2x faster running dashboards
        > 85% faster count distinct response times
        > 2x faster count against attributes
        > 64% reduced load time of IServer with parallel cube loading
        > 41% faster incremental refresh
        > 30% faster performance against partitioned cubes
 – Secure Cloud
        > Moving to cloud
        > (i.e.) Moving an on premise environment to the cloud
        > elastic cloud power usage with more secured manner
        > Better performance than running them on hardware infrastructure
 – Beautiful Dashboards
       > No doubt about it – i don’t need to mention that – people will understand whoever have used MicroStrategy 🙂

Michael’s offer at end of presentation to customers 🙂 

MicroStrategy 2016 Customer Awards
 – Innovative Winner : KBB (Kelly Blue Book)
– Impactful Winner : PPL Electric Utilities
– Interesting Winner : 24 Hour Fitness
– 2016 Dashboard Contest Winner :
 > Adalytics,
 > iSocialCube,
 > CNH Industrial,
 > Power Company App designed by JCM SAS,
 > Finance Dashboards by Obase

Technology Features By Tim Lang
 – 90000+ downloads of MSTR 10 so far across globe
 – Quarterly release (Moving from Multi Year release)
 – Making upgrade experience as easy as possible
 – Vision: Leverage Core Technology and Innovate Across 4 dimensions
        > Time to Value
        > Intuitive – Powerful user experience
        > Scalable, Cloud friendly platform
        > Leverage Enterprise Assets
 – 10.3 Highlights
        > Gallery of Vetted, downloadable visualizations
                > Crowdsourced from community
                > One click add to desktop
        > Image
                > Embed images directly into dashboard
                > Easy sharing of dashboards with images
                > Administrator control on image size and usage
        > HTML Content in PDF Export
        > Simplified Express Install(reduce more GUI screen to navigate through)
        > Zero click Mac Login (with Usher)
                   > Auto unlock/lock based on proximity
                   > Secure native bluetooth pairing
                   > User configurable proximity sensitivity
         > Hundreds of customer driven fixes
         > Visualizations.microstrategy.com
         > Multithreaded data import for faster import
         > Better Android and iOS Parity
         > Full platform install on Windows, Linux and AWS

As Mike mentioned, it keeps platform fresh with all above exciting things withMicroStrategy as BI product and being BESTworld class BI Enterprise product… 

Ref: LinkedIn