What is enterprise business intelligence and how does the MicroStrategy 8 platform deliver it? See for yourself in a one-day introductory course in a city near you. This free course, designed for individuals without MicroStrategy experience, introduces MicroStrategy 8 from the perspective of people who use, develop and manage enterprise BI applications.

	Business Users:   Explore all 5 styles of BI — Scorecards and Dashboards, Enterprise Reporting, OLAP Analysis, Advanced and Predictive Analysis, and Alerts and Proactive Notification — integrated into a seamless reporting, analysis, and monitoring experience for fact-based decisions. Understand how to use BI applications to drive strategy and operational efficiency.
	Analysts:  Investigate enterprise data with easy to use analytical techniques such as pivot, drill, sort, prompting, on-the-fly metric creation, report filtering, ad hoc report creation, and more.
	Report Authors:  Design and refine scorecards, dashboards, enterprise reports, and OLAP reports — with what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) ease.
	BI Developers:  Create the crucial and reusable report building blocks that business users, analysts, and report authors use: KPIs, metrics, data filters, prompts, time series calculations and many more.
	BI Architects:  Model the business into easy to understand objects such as business dimensions, business attributes, and facts to eliminate database table, schema, and naming complexity.
	Administrators:  Manage enterprise BI applications for thousands of users using real-time system monitoring, historical operating information, and comprehensive security.
	BI Project or Application Managers: Turn business users’ requirements into insightful BI applications, while maintaining the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO).

“The course provided a thorough overview of MicroStrategy’s capabilities that supplemented my knowledge of MicroStrategy and motivated me to consider new ways to leverage the software on current and future BI applications,” said Jayita Chatterjee, Associate Engineer and ETL Developer at The Advisory Board Company.  “The instructor was knowledgeable on the subject matter and provided clear examples and instructions that facilitated learning.”

“The MicroStrategy Introduction to BI class expanded my knowledge about MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards and the Web interface,” said Alan Heger, Vice President of Information Systems at Russ Berrie & Co., Inc.  “The hands-on exercises reinforced key subject areas, and the interactivity with the instructor, particularly when the instructor explained how MicroStrategy features could be used in real world situations, was useful and relevant to my business.”

“I was very impressed with the knowledge of the instructor,” said Allison Griffin, Senior Informatics Analyst at MD Anderson Cancer Center.  “He was able to answer all attendee questions relative to our BI environments and was very proficient with the product, both from a consumer and developer standpoint.”

This introductory course is reserved for individuals without experience using the MicroStrategy platform. Designed for business users, BI project managers, IT specialists, and budget owners who sponsor BI applications, you can expect to gain insights into Enterprise BI and specifically how the MicroStrategy 8 architecture is expressly designed for your needs. Interact with your peers and MicroStrategy experts in this comfortable classroom setting for a day of knowledge sharing and education.