Lancet Software BI Insider June 2010 E-Newsletter

JUNE 2010

BUILD BI APPS IN HOURS WITH MICROSTRATEGY JUMP-START

Jump-Start is a new BI application accelerator that offers a fast and easy way to get started with MicroStrategy. The project comes with 25 reports and 9 unique dashboards, as well as underlying business metrics, filters, attributes and dimensions. You can easily add your data and within several hours have a fully-featured MicroStrategy BI application.

FROM NARROWCAST TO DISTRIBUTION SERVICES WEBINAR

Accelerate your transition from Narrowcast to MicroStrategy Distribution Services as painlessly as possible. With the significant improvements in Distribution Services comes the need to learn new functionality without hindering user adoption and benefits. Many companies have upgraded to V9, but struggle with successfully transitioning to the new format.

LancetCare will be hosting a webinar on June 10th at 3:00pm CST to share some of the tips and tricks learned about Distribution Services from the many MicroStrategy V9R2 upgrades they've completed.

Webinar discussion topics:

Narrowcast, Distribution Services and Their Differences
Installing Distribution Services
Migrating Your Existing Services
Managing Your Users and Subscriptions

COLLABORATE WITH OTHER BI USERS

A unique blog series covers each major component of getting started with Business Intelligence. Beginning in April of this year Laura Madsen has blogged about a different topic. The final blog post is coming soon, but you can catch up on the others by clicking any of the topics listed below:

If the blog isn't enough, you can collaborate with other BI users who may be where you're at, have already been where you are or are also going where you're going. A great opportunity to learn from other users in the trenches.

JOIN THE GETTING STARTED WITH BI COLLABORATION SITE »

UPCOMING EVENTS & EDUCATION

TECH TIP

How to replace objects using global Find & Replace. MicroStrategy 9.x has simplified object replacement and allows automatic and fast replacement of all occurrences of an object such as an attribute or a metric from all dependent objects such as reports.

THE UNDERDOG RAILROAD

Lancet President Tom Niccum and wife Nancy spend many Sundays taking a drive. Their passion for animals inspires them to be one of up to 60 volunteers who relay dogs from over-crowded shelters South to no-kill shelters in the Midwest. Check out Tom's last cuddly passenger below! If you'd like to participate or are interested in adopting a pet visit this website.