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10 Years

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Almost 8 years ago
I see in your post for a few hundred users. We have 40k registered customers so because Microstrategy forces you to core licenses and to have any kind of decent scheduling going on in the morning hours a few cores won't do it. We found to get any kind of hood performance we…
Over 8 years ago
With everyone trying to cut IT costs, if you go to one tool, one could argue you would spend more on this particular tool, than buying separate Microsoft BI, Tableau and alike tools for pointed solutions depending on how many pointed solutions you have. Every BI tool has…
Over 8 years ago
Pricing was the number one issue with Microstrategy even after the re-org that changed pricing. If you are a large org, 1 core only equals 500 users, and that price for each core with fault tolerance is millions and millions. Just look at their website for pricing of MSRP…
Almost 9 years ago
I found a way to install silverlight after chrome blocks it and its simple and done in a couple seconds then allows you to install silverlight. The cloud version for microsoft bi is html 5 and is coming on premise eventually. This will solve the silverlight issue going…
About 9 years ago
Many midwest companies have walked away from BO that are larger companies.
About 9 years ago
Easiest to install but in my opinion worst on tech support, worst on dashboard architecture but best on publication functionality. I have 16 yrs of bo admin and developer experience. I have 4 yrs of microstrategy and that tool can be harder from scratch but the worst to…

Projects

Over 10 years ago
Business Intelligence Project
Connecting up Microstrategy with SalesForce.com and Siteminder 12.5.x
Over 10 years ago
Business Intelligence Project
Creating a Full BI Stack in Microsoft BI 2012/2013

About me

I am a certified SAP Business Objects Administrator on the Business Objects XI 3.0/XI 3.1 Enterprise platform. I am certified/accredited on prior versions (XIR2, 6.5.x, 5.x) as well. I have completed our migration from Business Objects XIR2 Sp2 to Business Objects XI 3.1 Sp4. I have performance tuned and load balanced the enterprise application as well as cleaned up the security model and now runs like a charm in XI 3.1. I inherited the Business Objects XIR2 environment from someone else. I handle all license discussions, evaluations and audits on our system once a month to ensure 99% up time SLA's. I question developers methods when they don't meet our standards and understand what they are trying to accomplish. In most cases, I can find a better way to do what they are asking without having to custom code something that they were not aware of out of the box.
I am a seasoned, well diversified Business Objects administrator with over 12+ years of experience in the Business Intelligence industry and have worked on both the data ETL side as an Informatica developer and as an Informatica Administrator. I have a broad view of all the underlying architecture pieces that go along with Business Intelligence and what best practices truly means in terms of Business Intelligence Administration.

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