Fall is in the Air 🍂

Nick Novotny
MicroStrategy
Published in
4 min readSep 30, 2021

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A note from the Education and Community teams-

The temps are cooling down here at MicroStrategy Headquarters, but thanks to an outstanding MicroWorld, our teams’ love and enthusiasm for enterprise analytics are burning like never before! If you couldn’t attend your region’s event, don’t fret. All the sessions are available on-demand to enjoy at your leisure. Looking for more MicroWorld content? Join in on the upcoming Industry Events with sessions revolving around Retail, Healthcare, Financial Services, and the Public Sector.

Sweater weather isn’t the only thing that is upon us — MicroStrategy 2021 Update 3 is available now! Follow our MicroStrategy Blog to check out our CTO, Tim Lang, go over the major Update 3 features.

Enjoy our September edition of The MicroMinute, and as always, feel free to reach out with any questions or ideas!

Featured Content

Webinar: Setup and Support for MicroStrategy Library

Learn how you can leverage a modernized, interactive application to easily view, present, and organize your analytics.

Join our live stream on YouTube Live at 1:00 p.m. EDT on Friday, October 29, for a comprehensive discussion on how to connect MicroStrategy Library across all your clients. We’ll also show how you can take advantage of various Library offerings, including prompt application deployment and a streamlined user experience. You’ll also learn strategies to avoid common pitfalls and troubleshoot issues, and we’ll answer your questions live.

Make sure to subscribe to our YouTube channel and click the bell icon so that you’ll be notified when we go live — this is a topic that you don’t want to miss!

Dossier 101: Designing a Perfect Summary Page

(READ TIME | Approximately 6 min)

Keng-Fu, our Dossier Design Wizard, is back with another excellent article about how to build a summary page, overview dashboard, landing page, or home screen for your dossiers. Utilizing the 4Ws — Who, What, When, and Where — learn the importance of capturing the viewer’s attention, showing everything at a glance, and most importantly, telling a story with the data to take your dossiers to the next level.

Crypto Podcasts Episodes You Shouldn’t Miss

Looking for some intriguing crypto media to listen to? This short list of 5 exceptional podcast episodes is a perfect place to start. Get a glimpse into the future and explore the challenges of the crypto community by tuning in to these extraordinary conversations between experts in the world of cryptocurrency and blockchain.

Education Spotlight

Dossier Design Workshop: Build more effective dossiers

Design-focused, thoughtful, and user-friendly dossiers that utilize UX principles with our NEW 2021.143 Dossier Design Workshop! Learn to create easy, efficient, and relevant end-user experiences by building dossiers that help users understand complex datasets and make informed decisions.

The workshop is a four-hour, virtual instructor-led workshop. Click here to view the class details.

The DossBoss Challenge

Trick-or-treat!

MicroStrategy’s October DossBoss competition has begun! For this month’s spooky challenge, we want you to build the ultimate Halloween-themed dossier. Demonstrate your dossier expertise by creating an intuitive, free-form dossier filled with haunting visualizations and analyses — the more creative the better! Whether it be about pumpkins, ghosts, candy, costumes or more, we can’t wait to check out and share your dossier masterpieces.

Feel free to visit the Community for help with troubleshooting or getting inspiration. Submit your completed DossBoss dossier here as a .mstr file or video by EOD on Wednesday, October 20, 2021. Winners will be announced on social media, the Community DossBoss page, and in the September MicroMinute.

That’s it for the September edition of the MicroMinute.

Stay tuned for the October edition and subscribe here to have it delivered to your inbox!

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