MicroStrategy Symposium in Dusseldorf (October 2008)
Mar 5th
Yesterday I gave a talk at the MicroStrategy Symposium in Dusseldorf. The theme of my presentation was “High-performance reporting with MicroStrategy and Teradata.”
Since I’ve caught a cold last weekend pretty much, was my biggest worry is that I will interrupt my speech every 5 minutes by uncontrollable coughing fits. EinPaar against dry cough lozenges, however, have worked wonderfully and I could entertain my audience for nearly an hour long carefree.
After I’ve heard some even had hundreds of speeches in my life, I wanted to bore my audience in any case with the superficial marketing films. I simply could not allow that they will be too technical, because I did not sleep the total of the coveted audience wanted to risk it.
I assumed that my audience will have relatively good knowledge of MicroStrategy: otherwise they would not participate in the MicroStrategy Symposium. The Teradata information could however be rather rare so far. For this reason I have my old “MicroStrategy and Teradata” presentations that I prepared for Teradata customers can use without further: they provided the functionality of MicroStrategy in the forefront and dealt with the concepts of Teradata only marginally. I have therefore one new lecture prepared, which has included, inter alia, a 5-slide introduction to the Teradata architecture.
Minus: Some “human losses” during the lecture.
Plus: positive feedback after the lecture.
If you, dear reader, have heard my talk, write me please, what out of your sight was good and what needs improvement.
Original article is here. Translated using Google Translator.
Looking for opportunities in Toronto
Feb 18th
I have recently gained the Permanent Resident status for Canada and I will be moving in Toronto next month. Hurray!!! 
So if you are one of our frequent readers from GTA and you just happen to know a place well suited for an experienced and innovative MicroStrategy developer, please contact me at ssorin@gmail.com or check out my full profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/sorinsuciu.
Metadata Browser v2.0
Feb 10th
While the merge with Object Tracking Tool is still in development, I am proud to introduce the new and improved version of Metadata Browser, which you can download here: MBsetupV2.0.exe
Improved Documentation Tool
New properties are now retrieved for common object types:
- Metrics: dimensionality, condition, transformation, smart (yes/no)
- Attributes: form, lookup table, child & parent relations
- Filters: expression
- Prompts: item list
Change Journal Tools
This new function only works with MicroStrategy version 9.0 or higher and it either shows the Change Journal entries for a single object or for all the objects in a particular folder.
God Mode
If you have admin rights you can connect using “God Mode” and thus gain access to hidden system files. An interesting use (found during the test phase) is to navigate to System Objects\Columns and make dependency searches directly on Columns.
This is a read only application. Using it won’t cause any changes to your Metadata.
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MSTR 9.0.1 (Release 2) and it’s New Features
Feb 5th
MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 (9.0.1 products) is now available on the download site.
What are the new features in MSTR 9 R2 (9.0.1)
1) Jump Start Project
2) MicroStrategy Health Center
1) JUMP-START PROJECT
What is the Jump-Start Project?
Jump-Start is a complete MicroStrategy project that comes with 7 dashboards and 30 reports and all the underlying metrics, filters, attributes, and dimensions. All you have to do is add data and rewire. It was designed with one purpose in mind – to help you develop a complete MicroStrategy Project FAST!
How does Jump-Start Work?
MicroStrategy’s Jump-Start Project provides the standard building blocks of any project, attributes and facts, and uses those objects to create application objects such as metrics, filters, reports, enterprise documents, and dashboards. Because a specific project has yet to be defined, all of these objects use generic names as placeholders. You redefine/rewire the attributes and facts so that they work off your data tables, and due to the object oriented design of MicroStrategy, the data will be cascaded into the pre-built reports and dashboards automatically. With all this work prebuilt, the Jump-Start project delivers a complete BI project in a matter of a few hours
Manuals are available in MicroStrategy site.
2) MicroStrategy Health Center
MicroStrategy Health Center allows users to prevent, diagnose and fix problems in a MicroStrategy system. It detects known problems and provides an immediate solution to many of them.
Health Center can email a system administrator if it encounters a problem with the system. In cases where Health Center cannot fix a problem immediately, it enables users to bundle relevant system information, such as log files, into a diagnostic package and transmit the package to MicroStrategy Technical Support for review and troubleshooting.
- MicroStrategy Health Center can only operate on MicroStrategy 9.0.1.
- By default, MicroStrategy Health Center is installed and turned off (not configured). To start configuring MicroStrategy Health Center, please see the tech note below:
- TN32554 How to Configure a MicroStrategy Health Center System
- If MicroStrategy Health Center is already configured, to learn more about what common tasks can be carried out, please see the tech note below:
- TN32552 How to use MicroStrategy Health Center Console
- For a List a Current System Checks:
- TN32551 A List of System Checks for MicroStrategy Health Center
- MicroStrategy is constantly extending the functionality of Health Center by developing new system checks and information collectors, and refining existing ones. To keep the Health Center System up to date:
- TN32553 How to keep the Health Center System up to date
Source: MicroStrategy’s Technical Email
Free Reporting Suite has changed fate of MicroStrategy
Jan 18th
I receive a lot of emails from all over the world who wish to learn MicroStrategy and some long lost friends have come asking about learning MicroStrategy. Also the curiosity of learning MicroStrategy have increased in some two quarter. This is based on my emails I receive, comments received on the blog, my MicroStrategy forum, forum on Orkut and some other communities too. 6 months back big number of Fortune 100 companies were going down and MicroStrategy 9 seemed to have not big bang for MicroStrategy, Inc. But the FRT has simply changed the way MicroStrategy Inc ’s future is going to take shape. Though it does mean drastic loss of revenue per license sold, but finally MicroStrategy Inc have realized they can’t continue being $$$ greedy for long. They have survived for 2 decades, but if they would have had remained same, they wouldn’t have been able to stay in BI market for long. I know the Fortune-100 companies will not let MicroStrategy Inc die as 90 out of them use MicroStrategy as the primary BI investment or only BI tool.
Coming back to fate change. I don’t see MicroStrategy Inc trying to capitalize on fresh availability of MicroStrategy professionals in job market. FRT has led to thousand of clients of seeing/trying MicroStrategy clients for the first time and realizing what were they missing for so many years. BO and Cognos are piece of crap in front of MSTR. They don’t match anything except the ease of development, but that leads to several other complexities in case of BO/Cognos too. I mean, metadata syncing.. never ever heard of that. 
A bigger picture would become by Q1 2010. MicroStrategy World 2010 is due in a week and majority of sales lead would be getting closed by end of Q1 2010. I hope they are really doing good. (I do not consider myself good in doing anything other than MicroStrategy 
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P.S. This is just thought that came in my mind. Blog topic doesn’t go with the blog post. 
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