MicroStrategy Incorporated unveiled a map for the Intelligent Enterprise at its annual user conference, MicroStrategy World 2018, taking place at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas. The map serves as a playbook that offers a collection of technologies and techniques to help organizations leverage existing investments and navigate toward a successful data-driven organization, which MicroStrategy refers to as the Intelligent Enterprise. Assessments That Help Organizations Navigate Toward Success: The playbook offers organizations a detailed assessment that helps them evaluate the impact of external forces and catalog existing enterprise assets for every constituent across the organization. It helps plot a course to institute the teams, processes, and architecture required to build an Intelligent Enterprise and launch an organization’s journey to success. Intelligence Platform for App Development: The map of the Intelligent Enterprise takes feedback from hundreds of MicroStrategy’s leading customers and partners into account, and recognizes the need for a modern platform to build, deploy, and maintain intelligence applications. This playbook underscores the importance of being able to quickly overcome challenges and build applications on top of existing enterprise assets and data investments. It outlines the following components of an Intelligent Enterprise: Platform Services encompassing critical capabilities to deploy analytics and mobility applications with high performance and scalability on top of enterprise assets. Application Services comprised of a suite of enterprise-caliber add-on services available for architects to quickly and easily integrate into any application. Reusable Schema captured in business terms that maps to enterprise assets and abstracts complexities of the underlying data to allow rapid development. Federated, Certified Data published to enterprise architects, and departmental analysts, data scientists and developers. Applications that are containers of actionable intelligence, packaged and published to the enterprise and departments. Security that includes capabilities enabling the development of personalised and secured applications incorporating multi-factor, multi-layer authentication. Intelligence Applications for All Constituents: According to the playbook, in order to build a model where all constituents have instant access to intelligence, organizations depend on an intelligence platform that supports enterprise and departmental app development in concert with agile data discovery. Business users, analysts, data scientists, and developers in every department will require access to powerful clients to build ad-hoc, departmental and enterprise applications. The intelligence applications must be made available across a full range of devices in order for more people across the enterprise and beyond to benefit and act on insight. A Foundation to Deliver Business Success: In order to establish the foundation for the Intelligent Enterprise, the playbook recommends implementing the following intelligent techniques: an intelligence architecture that supports ad-hoc and departmental analytics, as well as enterprise applications; an intelligence center that comprises a team of expert architects who maintain the platform and intelligent processes; and, an intelligence program that consists of enterprise best practices to build, deploy, and operate.