First off, I’ve done it, I’ve fooled them all, they think I’m an expert! Muahahahahah.
There was a conference call last Thursday (10-08-09) led my COO Sanju Bansal to address the Free MicroStrategy Reporting Suite. I’ll keep it concise. It’s awesome, I’ve always thought it’s awesome. This call was meant to assist in the roll-out (getting bloggers to chatter about it, I’m assuming, is part of their Marketing strategy). So here’s my chatter. If you don’t take advantage of this, you’re retarded (take that PC police). I consult by the way…send me an email.
The conference starts with a background about the company. Largest Independent Public BI program….great fiscal health…etc. If you’ve attended MicroStrategy World, this is the first 15 minutes of any meeting you’ve attended. They present MicroStrategy as “Big Picture” platform software. Why “Free”? They want to get on the “right side of history earlier than everyone else.” The product is truly free, and there aren’t any “catches”. In order to attach to a piece of the BI software pie, then your free product needs to be fully capable, otherwise, what’s the point?
In other news…Subway just bought MicroStrategy?
There is a Gartner report they wanted to push. Check out the web page www.microstrategy.com/GartnerVol3
I only had one question (the least interesting since I’m not a industry analyst, but a video game geek), and so I’m not articulate or capable of putting together a coherent thought. I asked Sanju Bansal how customers that bought licenses before the free package would be able to match some of the free offerings. In my case…the free version has 2 “full” desktop licenses, my company has one. His answer was to download and utilize the entire free package…well, not exactly what we can do. We have well over a hundred licenses. What I want is that one extra licenses to I’ve at least met that minimum threshold of free licenses. I just want a free license! I’ll have to follow up with my sales person on that.
Anywho, here’s the link to the free reporting suite. Use it. Love it. I’ll leave the rest of the coverage to the pros.
MicroStrategy 9.0
Free, Reporting Suite, Sanju Mansal
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