Microstrategy – Dreadful Differentiators

Every BI vendor in the marketplace today tries to put their software is the most favorable light.  They like to rattle off words like: world-class, best, only, leading, #1, best-in-class, complete, etc.  Here are some of the leading statements: Actuate Corporation – Dedicated to providing business intelligence solutions that increase the richness, interactivity and effectiveness of enterprise […]

Set Analysis Part 5a: Custom Groups in WebIntelligence

I recently had a customer who was in the process of migrating from a legacy version of Microstrategy to BusinessObjects. They had been able to migrate over most of their core reports, but there were several reports that required a number of custom groups. Microstrategy’s approach was to allow the customer to define any number […]