Moving Cubes
This is a hack, so proceed at your own risk! I haven’t tested this or used it in a production environment, so things may break/crash/catch on fire. Say that you have built a really...
Tagged: Admin
Detecting Freeform SQL Reports
I’ve written about the merits of Freeform SQL reports before, and how they can become very useful in a pinch but with a few consequences. For example, one of the great advantages of MicroStrategy...
The Importance of Branding
Business Intelligence is much bigger than the application itself. Driving user adoption is critical to it’s success, and the best way that I’ve found to do that is to create a Brand for your...
Project Documentation
Documentation isn’t the most exciting thing to work on, but fortunately, MicroStrategy provides a tool that does some of the leg work for you. This free tool is included in Desktop and produces a...
Multisource
Sometimes the speed of business can’t wait for the perfect model and information flows to feed it. Or perhaps it’s just not practical to ship data around to and from multiple locations due to...
MicroStrategy Education eBooks
This past weekend, I received an update to my MicroStrategy Mobile client on my iPhone, so I started exploring through some of the examples. I’m not sure how long they’ve been there, but I...
Web Server Macro
A common environment setup is to have separate machines for your Production and Development environments. While a lot of shops I’ve worked in will simply have separate Production and Development projects on the same...
VLDB Properties
Today’s post is at the request of @jayzzzz on Twitter. VLDB (Very Large Database) Properties are settings that allow you to tweak some of the detailed behavior of MicroStrategy. These settings control options on...
Best Practices in QA and Migrations
Todays post was suggested by @lenotooleBI via Twitter. Whenever you mention “Best Practices”, the first thing that usually comes to mind is Object Management and Quality Assurance. Any software development workflow is going to involve...
Testing as Other Users
Here’s a quick tip that could be really obvious or make a big difference in your ability to provide support if you haven’t used it before. It’s pretty common to receive an email from a user...