BI in the Cloud: Rainy Day or Lightning Strike?

What is Cloud BI? If you’ve ever read any of my blog posts, then you probably know that I don’t shy away from the clichéd buzz words/phrases.  This time around, I thought we’d tackle two at a time (Cloud & BI).  Cloud based Business Intelligence (aka Cloud BI) is the Software as a Service (SaaS) … Continued

Usher-ing in the MicroStrategy 9s Upgrade

What’s included in the 9s Upgrade? In January of this year at the 2015 MicroStrategy World conference in Las Vegas, MicroStrategy announced that their latest Analytics platform, MicroStrategy 9s, was now Generally Available.  With this release MicroStrategy has released some significantly improved security enhancements by incorporating their Usher application into the platform’s functionality. What is … Continued