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MicroStrategy Symposium in Dusseldorf (October 2008)

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.