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The Ultimate Dashboard: Highways Agency
With a data analysis like no other in the UK, the Highways Agency is now using live information feeds and business analytics to enable it to react more quickly to incidents. As an executive agency of the Department for Transport, the Highways Agency faces a number of challenges, some of which require immediate action. Until recently the ability to analyse traffic flow relied upon collecting vast amounts of data and assessing it in retrospect. Now the Agency has enhanced its analytical capabilities through the use of business intelligence (BI) tools which have already dramatically improved decision making and been instrumental in analysing the changing patterns of breakdowns.
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Managing User Adoption Makes the Most
of a BI Solution
Sound architecture and a great user interface are often considered
the main priorities when implementing a BI solution. But to ensure
your user community will happily relinquish its PDFs and complex
spreadsheets for a more dynamic tool, managing adoption is key.
Needing to provide marketing and circulation managers with timely,
standardised and detailed information about their promotions, Meredith
Corp., a US publisher chose MicroStrategy’s business intelligence
platform to fulfil their needs, edging out both Business Objects
and Cognos. Through a disciplined approach to adoption, inexperienced
BI users have been turned into avid BI consumers, with 95% of the
reports being created by the users.
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MicroStrategy to Showcase New Functionality at MicroStrategy World 2009 in Las Vegas
MicroStrategy World 2009 in Las Vegas will be the showcase event
for cutting-edge functionality across 30 new sessions dedicated
to bringing you the latest insights and techniques. Sign up today
to ensure you don’t miss introductions to in-memory ROLAP, multi-source
access, distribution services, and a must-see keynote.
Our 12th annual user conference on January 13-16 at Wynn Las Vegas
is the perfect forum for exploring up-close the details and range
of features in the MicroStrategy BI platform. This event is a "must
attend" conference for all MicroStrategy business users, designers,
and administrators.
Register before November 30 to receive $200 off »
MicroStrategy
and Teradata Collaborate to Offer Industry-Specific Dashboards
MicroStrategy and Teradata will collaborate to provide dashboards
for selected industries to make decision-making easier and faster.
The industry-specific dashboards will showcase the combined power
of Teradata analytics and MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards™.
MicroStrategy’s dashboards display large volumes of data in an intuitive
and highly visual manner, allowing users to quickly identify trends
and issues.
New retail dashboards will provide retailers with a data-driven
view of sales performance, allowing them to access, predict, analyze,
interpret, and act on data by store, customer, and sales channel.
"The combination of MicroStrategy and Teradata provides a powerful
business intelligence solution at Roundy’s," said Greg Lisiak, Director
of Business Solutions at Roundy’s Supermarkets, Inc. "Our users
rely on our information dashboards to quickly access and interpret
critical business activity, and to improve business and operational
performance."
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24 Hour
Fitness selects MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform
24 Hour Fitness, the largest fitness club chain the US, has selected
MicroStrategy for reporting on and analyzing a wide range of key
performance indicators for it 425 clubs across the US. Club managers,
field management, and corporate management will use MicroStrategy
to gain greater insights into club traffic, member preferences,
and sales and financial data to help them make more informed decisions.
Bill Donohue, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer
at 24 Hour Fitness, said: “We evaluated several business intelligence
products and we were impressed with MicroStrategy’s scalability
for large amounts of data, ease of use, and robust reporting capabilities.
With MicroStrategy, our employees will have greater insights into
critical business performance data that was previously unavailable.
They will also rely on automated e-mail delivery of reports for
timely decision making.”
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Learn More:
Press Release:
24 Hour Fitness Chooses MicroStrategy for Enhanced Enterprise Reporting
and Analysis
Coming
Soon: New Dashboards and Reporting Class for Business Users
MicroStrategy will introduce a new, complimentary class called
Dashboards, Reports, and Analytics for the Business User.
This half-day educational class is conveniently taught at your office
or training facility. MicroStrategy will provide all the class materials
and work with your facility to manage the details of your class.
Through demonstrations and hands-on exercises, participants will
learn how to:
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Use dashboards and reports to improve decision making;
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Use analytics to increase business competitiveness;
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Employ data visualizations to enhance understanding of complex business
operations; and
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Interact with data to discover the underlying factors affecting
business performance.
If you'd like to schedule a class now, please contact your account
representative. More information will be available shortly on our
web site.
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IN THIS ISSUE
The Ultimate Dashboard: Highways Agency
Managing User Adoption Makes the Most of a BI Solution
MicroStrategy to Showcase New Functionality at MicroStrategy World 2009 in Las Vegas
MicroStrategy and Teradata Collaborate to Offer Industry-Specific Dashboards
24 Hour Fitness selects MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Platform
Coming Soon: New Dashboards and Reporting Class for Business Users
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Quadrant Risk Management Signs Global Reseller Agreement with MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy Announces Integration with Adobe Flash
MicroStrategy Named to Forbes 200 Best Small Companies List
Conclusive Marketing to Offer MicroStrategy for Business Intelligence
and Advanced Reporting Capabilities
TDWI News: Analysis: Financial Markets’ New Demands and BI
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