Microstrategy Certification Series

 

The following topics are assessed to pass the  CPD – Certified Project Designer exam.

Project Designer Essentials
Report Developer Essentials

BI Vendors in Market

Right now, most of the user activity in the BI and analytics platform market is from organizations that are trying to mature from descriptive to diagnostic analytics. The vendors in the market have overwhelmingly concentrated on meeting this user demand. If there were a single market theme in 2012, it would be that data discovery became a mainstream architecture. 

For years, data discovery vendors — such as QlikTech, Salient Management Company, Tableau Software and Tibco Spotfire — received more positive feedback than vendors offering OLAP cube and semantic-layer-based architectures. In 2012, the market responded:

• MicroStrategy significantly improved Visual Insight.
• SAP launched Visual Intelligence.
• SAS launched Visual Analytics.
• Microsoft bolstered PowerPivot with Power View.
• IBM launched Cognos Insight.
• Oracle acquired Endeca.
• Actuate acquired Quiterian.

This emphasis on data discovery from most of the leaders in the market — which are now promoting tools with business-user-friendly data integration, coupled with embedded storage and computing layers (typically in-memory/columnar) and unfettered drilling — accelerates the trend toward decentralization and user empowerment of BI and analytics, and greatly enables organizations' ability to perform diagnostic analytics.