Overview
What is MicroStrategy Analytics?
MicroStrategy Analytics is an enterprise business analytics and mobility platform. Key features include automatic big data analysis and reporting, data discovery and visualization, digital security credentials, and support for mobile devices.
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MicroStrategy -Powerful enterprise BI tool, can you handle it?
Microstrategy is the BEST BI tool out there...
Perfect data visualization tool for ease of generating reports and valuable customer insights!
MSTR Makes Data Analysis a Breeze
Intensive and reliable tool
Microstrategy , very good but..
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MicroStrategy - excellent tool in the right hands
Integrated and efficient analytics solution
MSTR good for a structured environment
Simplifying reporting needs
Enterprise BI Solution - Not an Analytics solution
Popular Features
- Formatting capabilities (24)10.0100%
- Customizable dashboards (23)10.0100%
- Report Formatting Templates (24)10.0100%
- Pixel Perfect reports (23)10.0100%
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What is MicroStrategy Analytics?
MicroStrategy Analytics is an enterprise business analytics and mobility platform. Key features include automatic big data analysis and reporting, data discovery and visualization, digital security credentials, and support for mobile devices.
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
BI Standard Reporting
Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.
- 10Pixel Perfect reports(23) Ratings
Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.
- 10Customizable dashboards(23) Ratings
Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.
- 10Report Formatting Templates(24) Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.
- 10Drill-down analysis(22) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
- 10Formatting capabilities(24) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
- 10Integration with R or other statistical packages(16) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
- 10Report sharing and collaboration(23) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.
Report Output and Scheduling
Ability to schedule and manager report output.
- 10Publish to Web(22) Ratings
- 10Publish to PDF(23) Ratings
- 10Report Versioning(20) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
- 10Report Delivery Scheduling(22) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
- 10Delivery to Remote Servers(5) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers
Data Discovery and Visualization
Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.
- 10Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)(20) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
- 10Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization(19) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
- 10Predictive Analytics(18) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
- 10Pattern Recognition and Data Mining(1) Ratings
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.
Access Control and Security
Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.
- 10Multi-User Support (named login)(19) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
- 10Role-Based Security Model(20) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
- 10Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)(20) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
- 10Report-Level Access Control(1) Ratings
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
- 10Single Sign-On (SSO)(9) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications
Mobile Capabilities
Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
- 10Responsive Design for Web Access(19) Ratings
Web design aimed at producing easy-to-read sites across a range of different devices.
- 10Mobile Application(15) Ratings
A dedicated app for iOS and/or Android.
- 10Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile(19) Ratings
In-app dashboard reports and data visualization.
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another
- 10REST API(6) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
- 10Javascript API(7) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
- 10iFrames(5) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
- 10Java API(4) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
- 10Themeable User Interface (UI)(5) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
- 10Customizable Platform (Open Source)(6) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API
Product Details
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What is MicroStrategy Analytics?
The platform integrates with a wide range of third-party data warehouses however. MicroStrategy also built a free discovery/visualization tool called MicroStrategy Analytics Desktop, which is not completely integrated with the rest of the platform. MicroStrategy has strong mobile and cloud capabilities which are differentiators for the platform. MicroStrategy's cloud offerings are unique in that they host the software in their own data centers and allow customers to keep their data on-premise to alleviate security concerns. Analytics is a platform for Business Intelligence (BI) and self-service analytics. It enables organizations worldwide to analyze the vast amounts of data stored across their enterprises to make better business decisions.
- MicroStrategy Analytics Enterprise: Enterprise-grade business intelligence
- MicroStrategy Analytics Desktop: Free self-service visual analytics
- MicroStrategy Analytics Express: Free cloud-based self-service visual analytics
MicroStrategy Analytics Competitors
MicroStrategy Analytics Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
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(265)Community Insights
- Business Problems Solved
MicroStrategy Analytics is a versatile tool that is widely used across departments in various industries. Departments such as Accounting, Finance, and Audit have found the software to be invaluable in pulling policy level detail reports and generating month-end summary reports for the general ledger. This has greatly streamlined their reporting process and facilitated SOX audit testing. Additionally, multiple business units within organizations rely on MicroStrategy Analytics for financial decision-making and direct people impacting decisions.
Users have also found the software to be useful for prototyping, demoing to customers, analyzing functionality, implementing it, and advising customers on its implementation and usage. Its ability to provide a comprehensive view of company data and create live dashboards has made it an essential tool in achieving corporate strategic goals. It has also empowered department financial budget officers to easily view their budget values.
Furthermore, MicroStrategy Analytics is not limited to specific industries but is used across various sectors like finance, healthcare, and retail. It excels at creating web-based dashboards and mobile reporting, helping solve issues related to turnaround time, staffing, and tracking by utilizing data from scheduling programs and electronic medical record systems.
Overall, MicroStrategy Analytics serves as a full business intelligence enterprise solution by sourcing data from various database technologies, solving the problem of data silos organizations may face. Its versatility makes it a trusted tool for analyzing large datasets and providing valuable insights that drive informed decision-making.
Attribute Ratings
- 9.9Likelihood to Renew27 ratings
- 9Availability2 ratings
- 9Performance2 ratings
- 3.2Usability5 ratings
- 2.2Support Rating5 ratings
- 9Online Training5 ratings
- 9Implementation Rating4 ratings
- 9Configurability1 rating
- 9Product Scalability2 ratings
- 10Vendor pre-sale1 rating
- 10Vendor post-sale1 rating
- 10Data Visualization1 rating
- 8.8Data Sources18 ratings
- 8Data Sharing and Collaboration18 ratings
Reviews
(1-2 of 2)MicroStrategy -Powerful enterprise BI tool, can you handle it?
- Strong semantic layer to define all the business rules and tightly coupled
- MicroStrategy Analytics cubes are easy to create and deploy
- MicroStrategy Analytics cubes performance is best in the industry from performance point of view
- Slice and dice features are awesome
- You can define hierarchy, drill up and drill down within data set
- SDK for Customizing Analytical Applications means you can leverage metadata
- Embedding Analytics with MicroStrategy REST API
- Data Mining and Predictive Analytics
- MicroStrategy Analytics desktop support waterfall model
- Modern BI tools prefer agile methodologies
- Correlating unstructured data sets gets challenging
- Pixel Perfect reports
- 80%8.0
- Customizable dashboards
- 90%9.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 90%9.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 90%9.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 90%9.0
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- 80%8.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 90%9.0
- Publish to Web
- 80%8.0
- Publish to PDF
- 90%9.0
- Report Versioning
- 90%9.0
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- 90%9.0
- Delivery to Remote Servers
- 90%9.0
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 90%9.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 90%9.0
- Predictive Analytics
- 100%10.0
- Multi-User Support (named login)
- 80%8.0
- Role-Based Security Model
- 100%10.0
- Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- 100%10.0
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- 100%10.0
- Responsive Design for Web Access
- 90%9.0
- Mobile Application
- 90%9.0
- Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
- 90%9.0
- REST API
- 90%9.0
- Javascript API
- 80%8.0
- iFrames
- 90%9.0
- Java API
- 90%9.0
- Themeable User Interface (UI)
- 90%9.0
- Customizable Platform (Open Source)
- 90%9.0
- Faster ROI through reduced implementation cycle
- Improved quality of yield and throughput
- Reduced equipment downtime
- Reduced production cost
- Long-term strategic management of production assets
- Enhanced operational efficiency
- Precise machine failures predictions
- Standardized & optimized data repository resulting in better pricing strategy and increase in revenue & profitability
- Better decision making capability and efficient on-boarding of end users through a near real-time reporting platform
- Four major investor segmentation reports for frontline staff to get complete view of investors
- Transformation from a Product centric organization to a Customer centric organization to become a True Global Consumer Bank
- Proactive decisions
- Customer satisfaction
- Competitive advantage
- Continuous accuracy benchmarks
- Customized Retail service
- Fact-driven decision making
- Sales profile overview
- Trend analysis
- Reduce gap between expected and actuals
MicroStrategy BI tools implementation and support skills needed
- MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
- MicroStrategy Architect
- WEB SDK
- Visualization SDK
- Customizations Explorer
- MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server
- MicroStrategy Office
- Intelligence Cubes
- Mobile Integration
- Global Financial Services Institution -Standardization of Open Collateral Application
- Largest Home Improvement Specialty Retailer -Pricing Analytics
- Leading Financial Group in Canada -Investor MDM & Analytic
- US Based Global Bank -Generating 360°view of Customer
- SMR Self-service- Consolidated 1400+ Senior Management Reports (SMR) documents into 8 document using MSTR MTDI Cube Feature, thus reduced development effort as well as 50+ SMR cubes reduced to 1 cube (99% reduction). SMR SS – Functionality is in Production in June enables users can build and customize, save their own reports.
- Periscope (Retail analytics) is a predictive data mining accelerator that caters to Retail industry addressing various facets viz. sales profile, customer churn by mapping regression model to dashboard thus better understanding shoppers.
- This framework is aimed to increase the analytical capabilities of the P&C insurance companies through creating a DWH by integrating various source data with geo spatial information. The integrated DWH with geo coordinates helps in managing natural catastrophes and improved underwriting analysis by creating reports and computing KPI's.
- Advisor recommendation
- Implementation support
- Reduction in time-to-market for new campaigns
- Error Reduction in customer Identification
- Reduction in On-Boarding processing
- Improved Underwriting Analysis by creating reports and computing KPI's
- Implemented in-house
- Data Modelling
- Project Architecting needs to plan properly
- Increase in Business Feeds Loads
- Reduction in Controllers Manual Work.
- Conversion of Manual Work into Systematic Workflows.
- Increase in Customer Spend
- Reduction in Service costs
- Reduction in time-to-market for new campaigns
- Increase in cross sell and Up sell
- Error reduction in customer Identification
- Existing client retained
- Online training
- Highly accurate customer and transaction data helped client comprehend and react to paradigm shifts, and maximize profit or minimize loss
- Created Central information store with powerful analytics capability
- Useful for due diligence processes or to detect potential fraud
- Designed to accommodate and manage change
- Streamlining and Automation of business processes for greater efficiency
- Data Modelling
MicroStrategy Pre-Sales team is awesome. Pleasure working with them.
- Access to the latest service pack features
- Innovation
- Collaboration
- Artificial Intelligence
Microstrategy is 'great enough' for business.
- Aggregate awareness.
- The ability for the SQL generator to select the correct aggregate table, whether a hierarchy or dates, is invaluable to organizations with less mature database developer resources.
- Delivery of reports, particularly web-based delivery.
- Microstrategy provides the most options for report delivery, scheduling, and formats; a requirement of self-service BI.
- Managing metadata
- Microstrategy's architecture prefers a star schema; this can serve as a virtual ER builder and help locate possible bottlenecks in the database design.
- Scheduling delivery; the use of schedules is very inflexible.
- Instead of building specific delivery objects, a schedule builder (similar to MS Outlook) will push Microstrategy ahead of the competition. The schedule objects add to the maintenance.
- FTP/sFTP delivery options.
- Internal delivery to file systems and availing the file location to FTP is good, but often times external FTP/sFTP is required. Currently, BI engineers have to build external processes to deliver to external FTP.
- Desktop dashboard development; it is a bit disjointed.
- Dashboard development options are different between desktop (now called developer) and web are different. We often have developer and web open at the same time to build dashboards.
- Architect product; still hasn't gained global acceptance for schema management.
- More flexible cross-tab development.
- There's an idea I have about joining data sets where there's aggregate data combined with crosstab data. The example i use is a annual budget (metric) along side monthly spend (metric). Today, the annual budget must be an attribute which means it cannot be used in calculations.
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- Pixel Perfect reports
- 90%9.0
- Customizable dashboards
- 80%8.0
- Report Formatting Templates
- 70%7.0
- Drill-down analysis
- 90%9.0
- Formatting capabilities
- 60%6.0
- Integration with R or other statistical packages
- 90%9.0
- Report sharing and collaboration
- 80%8.0
- Publish to Web
- 90%9.0
- Publish to PDF
- 80%8.0
- Report Versioning
- 60%6.0
- Report Delivery Scheduling
- 40%4.0
- Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- 90%9.0
- Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- 80%8.0
- Predictive Analytics
- 70%7.0
- Multi-User Support (named login)
- 70%7.0
- Role-Based Security Model
- 70%7.0
- Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- 70%7.0
- Responsive Design for Web Access
- 70%7.0
- Mobile Application
- 100%10.0
- Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
- 100%10.0
- (positive) Improved analytics delivery due to the flexibility of the web platform.
- (positive) Generated new lines of business via dashboard development.
- (negative) Long development cycles.
- (positive) Shorter QA cycles for analytics leveraging Integrity Manager.
- Database developers
- Data warehouse developers
- Business analysts
- Product Development
- Network Admins
- Standard analytics.
- Business intelligence.
- Dashboards.
- Custom report generation.
- Account management.
- Mobile dashboards.
- Client-specific, custom dashboards.
- Validation of datasets.
- Self-service BI.
- Data warehouse design validation.
- Two-way analytics to action system.
- SSRS - Frontend management was difficult and could not integrate with our other systems; primarily because of security.
- Custom ASP - many features were missing from the ASP reporting packages that exist in MSTR (scheduling, view filters, schema binding, dashboards, etc.). in addition, the DEV cycles were too long.
- MS Excel - multiple versions of the truth were constantly beibg delivered to clients via unreliable means (emails, personal cloud storage, et al.)
- Price
- Product Features
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Implemented in-house
- Professional services company
- Forcing query optimization via level metrics and VLDB settings
- Setting up DB connections
- Styling, styling, styling
- Grid Report Generation
- User Management
- Installation
- Visual Insight
- Documents/Dashboard
- Database Connections
- Attribute/metric generation
- Report API
- Styling