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Where are my Visual Insights dashboards in Microstrategy 11?

Visual Insights dashboards in Microstrategy 11?



Dossiers are essentially the next generation of VI dashboards. Once you upgrade your existing environment to the latest version, all of your VI dashboards will be converted to Dossiers. Dossiers have additionally functionality and enhancements (collaboration, responsive design, enhanced user experience, filtering, etc.) Once you have Library installed, you can then push out these Dossiers to your users Library via Workstation, MSTR Web, email, link shares, or your users can add Dossiers to their Library on their own.

With the release of MicroStrategy 10.9, we’ve taken a leap forward in our dashboarding capabilities by simplifying the user experience, adding storytelling, and collaboration.MSTR has  evolved dashboards to the point that they are more than dashboards - they are interactive, collaborative analytic stories. Ultimately, it was time to go beyond dashboards, both in concept and in name, and so the've renamed VI dashboards to dossiers’. 
 
Dossiers are organized in pages and chapters, that make it easy to navigate and share the reports and visualizations you're familiar with. And with live collaboration, commenting, and notifications, your team can stay in sync and be ready to take informed action when it counts.

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Key features of the dossiers, that available for both web and mobile users are: 

 

  • A more modern interface with intuitive menu options for both analysts and consumers
  • Powerful filtering options, with new visual filters
  • Proactive alerts and push notifications for both web and mobile users
  • Collaborative discussion threads for real-time and contextual idea exchange
 
With this release, MicroStrategy modernizes the interface by focusing on making the product easier-to-use and more intuitive. Organizations can now deploy MicroStrategy to a wider set of users across the enterprise, and get it into the hands of everyone – regardless of skillset, and for the first time, delivers the means to accelerate the adoption of analytics across the enterprise at a much faster rate.

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