Monthly Archive: February 2012

Automatic Export via URL API 44

Automatic Export via URL API

The URL API can give you a lot of flexibility in designing report interactions.  I’ve previously talked about using it to Answer Prompts to simulate drill downs from Documents, customize the layout by Removing Sections,...

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Building Your Own Custom Map

The MicroStrategy Area Mashup widget is a handy (and free!) Widget for adding a simple map to your Report or Dashboard.  This serves as a nice alternative to using full fledged Google Maps or ESRI.  The...

Database Passthrough Functions 18

Database Passthrough Functions

MicroStrategy’s unquestionable strength is it’s SQL Engine.  The ability to define an object layer over your data that empowers end users with no technical knowledge of the data structure to build any report is truly remarkable....

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Data Mining Services

Data Mining Services is perhaps MicroStrategy’s best kept secret.  It’s a powerful set of tools and functions built right into the product that offers advanced statistic report capability including predictive analytics, market basket analysis,...

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Recommended Tools

I wanted to share some tools I use in my day to day work that make my life a lot easier.  They’re all free, so give them a try!  This post will probably grow...

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Gephi

Today’s post isn’t directly related to MicroStrategy, though it does have it’s roots there.  At the last two MicroStrategy World conferences, one of my favorite presentations has been the ones by LinkedIn.  They have...

Connecting Flex Mobile to MicroStrategy 0

Connecting Flex Mobile to MicroStrategy

Starting with Flex SDK 4.5, Adobe began supporting compiling your application to natively run on iOS and Android.  This presented a great opportunity to write code one time and then have it functional on...