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8 reasons why you should upgrade to MicroStrategy 10

Flash is dead As you probably may know, Flash is no longer the favorite technology to build the web and it's losing ground more and more to the point where Google no longer wants to support it.  MicroStrategy made the necessary changes and moved everything to HTML5 and JS. This also increases the compatibility across platforms/devices, making deployment a lot easier. Redesigned Visual Insight There's no doubt that Dashboard/VI is the de facto standard in MicroStrategy analytics. VI is also the main vessel for data discovery and self-service BI. Documents are old flavored, non-responsive which take long time to build. Some would also argue that documents will be deprecated in a future release of MicroStrategy. Easier upgrades MicroStrategy has made things easier for deployments and upgrades, allowing installations over an older version of the platform without removing it first. This reduces considerably the necessary time to deploy a new version. Moreove...

List of available auto-text macros in Report Services Documents

This is a list of the available auto text macros that the Report Services Document engine recognizes.  AUTOTEXT DESCRIPTION   {&PAGE}  Display the current page.  {&NPAGES}  Display the total number of pages.  {&DATETIME}  Display the current date and time.  {&USER}  Display the user name that is executing the Report Services Document.  {&DOCUMENT}  Display the document name.  {&DOCUMENTID}  Display the document ID.  {&DESCRIPTION}  Display the document description.  {&PROJECT}  Display the project name.  {&EXECUTIONTIME}  Display the execution time.  {&SERVERNAME}  Display the Intelligence Server name  {& REPORT :FILTERDETAILS}  Display the filter details of that report.  {& REPORT :PROMPTDETAILS}  Display the prompt details of that report.  {& REPORT :REPORTDETAILS}  Di...