Trick or Treat Yo’self to MicroStrategy 🎃

Nick Novotny
MicroStrategy
Published in
5 min readOct 28, 2021

A note from the Education and Community teams-

It’s that time of year for carving pumpkins, dressing up in spooky costumes, and stuffing your face with candy. Following suit, our teams at MicroStrategy have been hard at work concocting our very own special treat — MicroStrategy 2021 Update 3! Explore the latest features in our What’s New in Update 3 Webinar and check out our CTO, Tim Lang, go over his favorite enhancements to HyperIntelligence, Dossier, Workstation, and more. Want to be the first to know about future product updates? Be sure to follow our blog to make sure you don’t miss out on the latest MicroStrategy news and content.

Enjoy our October 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 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 register below and subscribe to our YouTube channel so that you’ll be notified when we go live — this is a topic that you don’t want to miss!

Register Today to Mark Your Calendars!

New Butterfly Chart Custom Visualization

Learn how to add the latest free visualization, the Butterfly Chart, to your dossiers. This chart allows you to quickly compare two groups that share the same y-axis.

Looking for other visualizations to take your dossiers to the next level? Visit the Solutions Gallery today!

What’s Next in Analytics?

Explore what Harnalli Deepa Swamy, a veteran MicroStrategist, has to say about the top trends in data and analytics and how she ensures that her organization, Rodan + Fields, is staying ahead of the curve. Afterward, check out her MicroWorld session as she details the transformation Rodan+Fields has undergone to achieve rapid success in partnership with MicroStrategy.

Education Spotlight

We have an exciting new opportunity in Education for all pass holders: Office Hours! Instructor Office hours give you the opportunity to meet with Education experts for course and certification guidance. Join the session at any time to discuss topics from our classes you would find helpful, from creating derived metrics to environment security, and deciding which certification you want to tackle next. Instructor office hours are for anyone taking Education courses.

The October DossBoss Winner

Congratulations to the October DossBoss winners, Ayrton Mastrangelo, Milagros Cordobaand Francisco Perulero from DataMind! The judges were incredibly impressed with their free-form Halloween Dossier which included detailed analysis on two staples of the spooky holiday: candy and horror movies. With beautiful theming throughout, users can compare and contrast candy stats from around the world and explore the top-rated Horror movies over the years.

Be sure to check out this amazing dossier along with some past winners on the DossBoss website for more inspiration and to enter in the November challenge. Do you have what it takes to become the next DossBoss?

The DossBoss Challenge

Animal lovers rejoice — this month’s DossBoss competition is all about pets! We want you to demonstrate your dossier prowess by analyzing data revolving around the animals that help make our lives so much more enjoyable. Whether it be about popular animal breeds, cost of ownership, best practices for care, pets from around the world, or even analysis on your very own four-legged friend (potential bonus points for pictures!), we can’t wait to check out what you create with MicroStrategy Dossier.

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 Friday, November 19, 2021. Winners will be announced in the November MicroMinute and on the Community DossBoss page.

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

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

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