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MicroStrategy Symposium London, 10-11 July 2007

The MicroStrategy Symposium returns to the UK at the Radisson SAS Portman Hotel, London, July 10-11. The Symposium provides a forum for networking with other MicroStrategy customers, learning about the latest advances in business intelligence technology, and providing feedback on future product enhancements.

During this two-day event, you’ll exchange ideas with peers and industry experts, learn best practices from successful customer case studies, and participate in sessions designed to provide practical ideas to fine-tune your organisation’s business intelligence performance.

Resources:
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Intelligent Retail -  ERS Interview Virgin Retail

Virgin Megastore’s IT Director Tony Johnson explains how the entertainment giant is using data warehousing software as the basis of a business intelligence (BI) project to improve the quality of its performance reporting.

Virgin Retail has long been known as one of the more innovative users of technology on the UK high street. ERS talks with Tony Johnson, Virgin Retail’s IT Director, about current technology investments and how they are enabling the move to a true multi-channel environment. Read more »
 

"We’ve made quite a significant investment in Microstrategy and have been building a data warehouse to maximize the benefit of that investment. We are now heading towards ‘one version of the truth’ – one environment where all of our key data is held, where we can extract it using our Microstrategy tools."
– Tony Johnson, IT Director, Virgin Retail
Resources:
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     Extended Retail Solutions, European Edition
Read the full Virgin Retail and MicroStrategy success story

Free Intro To BI Class

If you have members of your team who are new to business intelligence then you may be interested in sending them to MicroStrategy's free, hands on, one-day, business intelligence class.

Sign up today to learn about scorecards & dashboards, integrated reporting and analysis, & more!

Resources:
Introduction to Enterprise Business Intelligence Classes
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MicroStrategy Education: New Courses Available


MicroStrategy Desktop: Advanced Reporting 200 — Case Studies

This one-day course addresses advanced report design using features of MicroStrategy Desktop and MicroStrategy Architect.


What is New in MicroStrategy 8.1

This course, available online and as a private instructor-led course, highlights the new features and improvements in MicroStrategy 8.1.


MicroStrategy Report Services: Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards

This one-day course explores the features and functionality of Report Services dynamic enterprise dashboards (available for MicroStrategy 8.1 - starts 22nd June).

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