As a MicroStrategy client, you understand the difficulties involved with keeping your BI platform running smoothly and your end-users happy. Since 1997, Lancet has helped many companies like yours reduce costs and increase the effectiveness of their Business Intelligence environment while allowing their internal experts to focus on broader initiatives.
LancetCare MicroStrategy Platform Managed Services is an out-sourced solution to your internal BI platform management. LancetCare clients often see immediate results in areas such as:
- Reduced administration costs up to 40%
- Fewer support issues
- Lower IT training expense
- Shorter maintenance backlogs
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- Higher end-user satisfaction
- Increased user adoption
- More efficient use of trained staff
- Faster report response time
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Our MicroStrategy trained and certified Platform Administrators have helped many types of companies with BI environments ranging from a single user to some of the most complex and demanding in the world.
MENTORING... NOT CONTRACTING
Many mid-size organizations prefer to take a "Do It Yourself" approach to constructing their strategic applications. This has advantages, since no one knows their business better than the folks inside. While some have succeeded, many teams have struggled, spending months or even years on false starts, blind alleys and time-consuming reinvention of best practices. On numerous occasions, Lancet has been called in to provide strategic advice and assistance to rescue these floundering BI initiatives.
Pittsburgh Steelers & MicroStrategy
Having Loads of Data Isn't Enough; You Need World-Class Analytical Capabilities. Why do so many companies continue to misapply and underutilize their Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities? Alan Simon takes a look at essential BI best practices against a backdrop of the 1972 National Football League draft. Why did the Pittsburgh Steelers make the surprise selection of future Hall-of-Famer Franco Harris in the first round, even though at the time Harris was overshadowed by his own college teammate? And what can we learn about world-class Business Intelligence from what the Steelers did and how it turned out?