Cloud Analytics Consortium presents: Analytics in the Cloud: Ready for Primetime

Join a group of knowledgeable and respected industry thought leaders as they discuss their views about how organizations can best prepare for success with DW/BI solutions in the cloud. Highly reputed independent analyst Howard Dresner who brings 30+ years of IT and BI experience will participate on the panel to provide valuable insights on the future of cloud-based DW/BI solutions. Howard will be joined by senior executives from best-in-class technology organizations including Informatica, MicroStrategy, Netezza, ParAccel and Teradata.

Join us to learn:

* Why more companies are using cloud-based DW/BI solutions now, more than ever before
* About industry solutions for concerns around security, performance, and reliability
* How to evaluate whether a cloud DW/BI solution is right for you
* Cloud adoption or migration strategies for any size business

Join a group of knowledgeable and respected industry thought leaders as they discuss their views about how organizations can best prepare for success with DW/BI solutions in the cloud. Highly reputed independent analyst Howard Dresner who brings 30+ years of IT and BI experience will participate on the panel to provide valuable insights on the future of cloud-based DW/BI solutions. Howard will be joined by senior executives from best-in-class technology organizations including Informatica, MicroStrategy, Netezza, ParAccel and Teradata.

Join us to learn:

* Why more companies are using cloud-based DW/BI solutions now, more than ever before
* About industry solutions for concerns around security, performance, and reliability
* How to evaluate whether a cloud DW/BI solution is right for you
* Cloud adoption or migration strategies for any size business

Dashboards help everyone from managers to sales people monitor multiple indicators at a glance. Appealing visualizations are more than just executive eye-candy. They enable alignment, insight, and action for workers at all levels of an organization. Initially, IT had to custom develop dashboards, but with new modules such as visual data discovery, business users themselves have moved to assemble their own dashboards to mash data together from different data sources.

In this webinar, industry analyst and author Cindi Howson highlights trends in dashboard usage, best practices for when IT or the business should develop dashboards, and industry innovations influencing dashboard design. She will present mini case studies of how leading companies have evolved from reports to powerful dashboards. MicroStrategy will demonstrate how it empowers organizations to successfully deliver both types of dashboards – both business-user-created, do-it-yourself dashboards and IT-created, operational dashboards – from one, single platform.

In this informative webcast, you will learn:

• Dashboard use cases and the differences of when IT or the business should create dashboards

• How mobile and cloud are influencing dashboard design

• The role of visual data discovery

• Insights from three leading companies on their journey to dashboards

A Webcast to help you fully prepare for 2013.

In 2012, Mobile Computing and Mobile BI’s impact is now both clear and profound. With the benefit of several years of data, there are identifiable trends and an evolution upon us. This study explores the many facets of this phenomenon – exploring how this market dynamic has evolved and where it’s likely to head in the future.

**How critical is Mobile BI to you versus your competitors?
**How many organizations will deploy Mobile BI in the next 12 months?
**Native or HTML5? (Hint: Native)
**iOS or Android?

As Howard says himself... “We’re in the midst of a profound shift toward Mobile BI and mobile computing”. Come and find out how to profit from this Mobile wave.

Cloud-based BI solutions enable government agencies to rapidly inject intelligence into any business problem at a fraction of the cost of traditional BI deployments. That means the ability to make faster, better informed business decisions.

But as the public sector's emphasis on cloud services has exploded, so has the noise level. Because it's one thing to talk about the benefits of moving critical functions like Business Intelligence or Analytics to the cloud, and another to understand the real-world options and pitfalls.

Complimentary Webinar for Government Executives and Technology Mangers. MicroStrategy and Qlarion--two companies at the forefront of providing BI solutions for government agencies--invite you to a complimentary webinar to discuss the myriad of potential challenges and the most effective strategies for cloud-based BI programs.

MicroStrategy Cloud Express is the industry's first Software-as-a-Service solution designed for "do-it-yourself" analytics and data publishing. Eliminating the burden on IT, Cloud Express combines the simplicity and flexibility of cloud-based solutions with the analytical depth, performance and scalability of a world-class business intelligence platform. In this session you will learn how any business person - regardless of technical skill - can access their data instantly and securely, design stunning data visualizations and interactive dashboards, collaborate on mobile devices, and deliver personalized data to thousands of recipients.

Join us to learn how anyone in your organization can get answers quickly and easily from their data without help from IT using MicroStrategy Visual Insight. Learn how Visual Insight lets you create and interact with data visualizations to explore and make sense of your data.

Learn how innovative companies across a variety of industries have deployed Mobile Sales Effectiveness Apps on tablets and smartphones to help their field sales reps sell better, sell more and sell faster.

Dashboards remain an incredibly important part of an organization's use of data for business efficiency and monitoring. The demand for them has grown from all sides of the organization, including your store managers, sales people, business analysts, and executives. However, with new demand, comes extra complexity in expectations, needs from dashboards, and extra time requirements on dashboard developers. Organizations today need a dashboard platform that is flexible enough to handle the needs of the technical community as well as the business user, do-it-yourself community. MicroStrategy is the best platform at making companies successful with dashboards, no matter who is using them. In this webcast, you’ll hear from MicroStrategy product managers as they discuss the full spectrum of dashboard needs and how MicroStrategy makes it possible to deliver them all, as well as enabling the path between them.

“Being able to see what’s happening with my business at any moment while having the flexibility to edit the data and visualizations gives me a huge advantage. MicroStrategy dashboards provide me with all the flexibility and tools I need.”
– Steve Stone, SVP MicroStrategy Technical Operations and former CIO, Lowes Companies

MicroStrategy 9.3 introduces impressive new features including updates to Visual Insight, access to more Big Data repositories, a new Web interface with Google-like Search, new dashboard and scheduled report distribution capabilites, and enhanced performance and administration. Hear how YAHOO!, GT Nexus, and Lancet plan to use MicroStrategy 9.3 to improve business monitoring, decision-making, and user adoption.

Cloud Business intelligence offers the promise of rapid application deployment, at a low Total Cost of Ownership and with the agility to respond quickly to changing business requirements. But how much of the promise can customers achieve in the real world? Come hear firsthand from two MicroStrategy cloud customers – Haniel and Tapjoy about their business challenges, and why they chose MicroStrategy Cloud for their BI projects.

Mobile connectivity has empowered consumers with instantaneous product and price information. Global Retailers are responding by equipping their store associates with mobile devices that enhance the customers’ shopping experience while improving operating effectiveness. Hear the lessons learned from a review of a score of retailers’ mobile store ops implementations, from the leading fashion retailers in France, Italy, Brazil and Spain. In addition, Migros and Obase will be discussing techniques they are using to deliver a well-defined and tangible ROI, while positioning themselves for the evolution to mobile POS and new payment options.

Even when you have the best app development tools at your disposal, there will always be the best app developers, and the average app developers. Join this webcast to hear Mirus Australia discuss their new iPad app for aged care providers in the healthcare sector, and view their new Aged Care Metrics App built to deliver information to decision makers for aged care providers. You’ll also hear from MicroStrategy's Principle Mobile Consultant, Devin McPherson, as he shares experiences garnered from helping 100s organizations build success mobile apps for their Business. Codified into 5 key lessons, Devin explores the 5 roadblocks to avoid when building information-driven mobile apps.

MicroStrategy Wisdom Professional unlocks an unprecedented new dimension for consumer research. This analytical application can explore the vast array of personal information contained in Facebook for millions of consumers including their demographics, interests, activities and preferences. Businesses and researchers use the extensive, accurate and up-to-date consumer data to improve a wide range of marketing activities including brand management, database marketing, media planning, competitive analysis, advertising, and social media marketing.

Attendees will:
• Learn the full spectrum of consumer information available for research in Wisdom Professional
• Find out the range of analytics and data enrichment offered in Wisdom Professional
• Understand how businesses can benefit from these consumer insights
• Watch demonstrations of specific business examples

Enhancements to the MicroStrategy Platform feature ground-breaking upgrades to Visual Insight including new data visualizations, enhanced interactivity, and faster dashboard creation.

Rotation has no language barriers, so why should your apps?

Watch as an app is built from scratch without writing a single line of code using MicroStrategy's intuitive, drag-and-drop design interface.

A detailed showcase of a new web and iPad-enabled analytics solution for hospitals and healthcare systems

Allows business people to create highly visual dashboards and get answers faster from their data, with no help from IT