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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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MicroStrategy Analytics is fantastic for data analytics

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
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I use MicroStrategy Analytics for data analysis in my organization. MicroStrategy Analytics is data analytics tool that help my organization for making better decisions to enh...
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Administrator
MicroStrategy Analytics2 years of experience

Strong and Easy Reporting

Rating: 6 out of 10
November 1, 2021
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We are using for all data reporting. My some financial data reporting in MicroStrategy Analytics. For department financial budget officer can see their budget values.
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Professional
MicroStrategy Analytics3 years of experience

MicroStrategy Analytics Product Review

Rating: 2 out of 10
May 13, 2021
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We made the decision to centralize all of our reporting from all of our systems into Microstrategy Analytics. Moved off of multiple older systems which included Microsoft BI, ...
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Jeff Harris
Analyst - Corporate
Hospitality Consultant
TRO Hospitality
MicroStrategy Analytics3 years of experience

MicroStrategy -Powerful enterprise BI tool, can you handle it?

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 1, 2020
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MicroStrategy is being implemented for our customers. I'm doing consulting assignment to plan design, architecture, blue prints and best practices to be followed
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Dharmesh Shah
C-Level Executive - Information Technology
Associate Principal
LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
MicroStrategy Analytics5 years of experience

Microstrategy is the BEST BI tool out there...

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 2, 2020
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We use it in multiple business units within our organization, from [making] financial decisions to direct people impacting decisions. We are able to pull from multiple data so...
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Director
MicroStrategy Analytics15 years of experience

Perfect data visualization tool for ease of generating reports and valuable customer insights!

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 8, 2019
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We went with MS analytics to create internal operational efficiencies and Improve business process outcomes through enhanced decision making using better data points and metri...
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Analyst
MicroStrategy Analytics3 years of experience

MSTR Makes Data Analysis a Breeze

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 10, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use MSTR organization wide to track KPIs for our brands. We have several dashboards set up based on brand and channel. MSTR allows for real time monitoring of KPIs and prov...
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Employee
MicroStrategy Analytics2 years of experience

Intensive and reliable tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 21, 2018
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Microstrategy Analytics is widely used in the company across all departments. Different level of access can be provided to different level of responsible persons. It is a very...
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Rishi Bavishi, CSSGB, CAPM
Analyst - Professional Services
Forecasting Analyst
Hilton
MicroStrategy Analytics1 year of experience

Microstrategy , very good but..

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 25, 2017
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are trying to use it across all the organization as the only tool where you can find all the data of the company, making all kind of dashboards for managers and final users...
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Gonzalo Segarra
Paraprofessional - Information Technology
Sub-Gerente de Desarrollo
Hospital Aleman
MicroStrategy Analytics5 years of experience

MicroStrategy Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 18, 2017
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
It is being used across our health center in every department, from admin to ops to clinics. We are trying to use it with our scheduling program's data feed to solve TAT issue...
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Analyst
MicroStrategy Analytics3 years of experience

MicroStrategy - excellent tool in the right hands

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 1, 2017
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use MicroStrategy to provide a business intelligence solution for our clients. We use it to create reports and dashboards that our clients can use to analyze their business...
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Brandon Fitzpatrick
Employee - Information Technology
Developer
IntelliCog
MicroStrategy Analytics1 year of experience

Integrated and efficient analytics solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 17, 2016
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Microstrategy is extensively used within my organization and other retail and finance clients I have worked with. MSTR is an efficient tool with numerous analytical, reporting...
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Vineet Rai
Engineer - Engineering
BI Architect
American Express
MicroStrategy Analytics11 years of experience

MSTR good for a structured environment

Rating: 5 out of 10
September 16, 2016
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
MSTR is being used by approximately three departments w/in Casey's. We plan on having MSTR be an enterprise-wide solution
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Mark Szymula
Director - Information Technology
BI Program Manager
Caseys General Store
MicroStrategy Analytics2 years of experience

Simplifying reporting needs

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 29, 2016
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Microstrategy is currently being used by several different departments within the organization. It makes our reporting easier, where it provides the flexibility to automate mu...
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★Alex Khamudis
Manager - Finance and Accounting
Manager, Store Labor
Guitar Center
MicroStrategy Analytics4 years of experience

Enterprise BI Solution - Not an Analytics solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 27, 2016
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Microstrategy is used in one of our banking clients. It's used by different areas, some use it for alerts. Others use it as a dashboard solution or for ad-hoc reporting.
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Pablo Tempone
Consultant - Professional Services
Analista BI Senior
COA S A
MicroStrategy Analytics5 years of experience
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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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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

10
Avg 8.1

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

10
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

10
Avg 8.3

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.

10
Avg 8.0

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

10
Avg 8.5

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

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Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

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Product Details

What is MicroStrategy Analytics?

The MicroStrategy platform differs somewhat from competing platforms in that it does not include a data warehouse.

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 currently has 3 versions:

  • 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

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MicroStrategy Analytics Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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 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.

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MicroStrategy Analytics is fantastic for data analytics

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 13, 2024
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I use MicroStrategy Analytics for data analysis in my organization. MicroStrategy Analytics is data analytics tool that help my organization for making better decisions to enhance organizational performance and growth. MicroStrategy Analytics make things easy to do work. Through this product it is quite easy to handle large and complex data with ease. It provides wide range of integration with wide range of data sources.
Pros and Cons
  • Data visulaizations
  • Security feature works well
  • Wide range of integration with data sources
Likelihood to Recommend
MicroStrategy Analytics is well suited for data analytics, data visulaizations and due to its wide range of integration with various data sources. Its all features work well. It is well suited for handling large and complex data with ease. It is less suited as there is complexity in use for new users. Its advance features are tricky and trainings required. It is less suited for cost factor that may be reduced.

Strong and Easy Reporting

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
November 01, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using for all data reporting. My some financial data reporting in MicroStrategy Analytics. For department financial budget officer can see their budget values.
Pros and Cons
  • Visualization
  • Speed of access to reports
  • Easy report implementation
Likelihood to Recommend
Some big data reports, some financial functionality.

MicroStrategy Analytics Product Review

Rating: 2 out of 10
May 13, 2021
JH
Jeff Harris
Hospitality Consultant
TRO Hospitality (Hospitality, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We made the decision to centralize all of our reporting from all of our systems into Microstrategy Analytics. Moved off of multiple older systems which included Microsoft BI, Alteryx, and some product specific reporting.
Pros and Cons
  • They sell the product well, and make promises you will actually believe
  • "checks the box" for most features a company would need. Doesn't actually deliver them though
  • They answer the phone in a timely manner. Can't answer your questions or provide support, but the queue time isn't bad
  • They have online documentation. It's not up to date, and likely doesn't reflect the version of software you are using, but hey... they can point to it.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you need an on-premise solution in your own data center, [I feel like] the options are starting to become limited, and MicroStrategy Analytics is one of them. Just don't expect it to be good, or supported.

MicroStrategy -Powerful enterprise BI tool, can you handle it?

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 01, 2020
DS
Dharmesh Shah
Associate Principal
LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech (Retail, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MicroStrategy is being implemented for our customers. I'm doing consulting assignment to plan design, architecture, blue prints and best practices to be followed
Pros and Cons
  • 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
Likelihood to Recommend
We are delivering MicroStrategy Solutions since 2007. MicroStrategy Analytics is the enterprise reporting tool.
[We are a] MicroStrategy Global Consulting Partner, dedicated CoE for MicroStrategy and project Implementation across multiple domains.
Innovations:
Periscope: Retail Analytics Solution
Geolytik: Our framework for Geo Spatial Analytics
Galileo Machines: A ready to deploy dashboard
Lendics: Security Lending Analytics

Galileo Machines – Advance Analytics Solution for Manufacturing benefits
-Enhanced operational efficiency
-Precise machine failures predictions
-Faster ROI through reduced implementation cycle
-Improved quality of yield and throughput
-Increased profitability of the plan
-Reduced equipment downtime
-Reduced production cost
-Long-term strategic management of production assets

Microstrategy is the BEST BI tool out there...

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 02, 2020
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
15 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use it in multiple business units within our organization, from [making] financial decisions to direct people impacting decisions. We are able to pull from multiple data sources and provide dashboards or report analytics from patterned data to make efficient and intelligent decisions to our business model and direction. It helps to provide a pathway to achieve our corporate strategic goals.
Pros and Cons
  • Dashboards
  • Reporting Analytics.
Likelihood to Recommend
The product provides great tools and reports that enable you to look at holistic data to see patterned goals. Gathering multiple data sources from mining, this product achieves just that pretty easily. Its very customizable and enables the executive team to see the weeds in metrics that are understandable.

Perfect data visualization tool for ease of generating reports and valuable customer insights!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
November 08, 2019
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We went with MS analytics to create internal operational efficiencies and Improve business process outcomes through enhanced decision making using better data points and metrics available at hand. Mainly the team was looking at using the data from the last 12 months or 52 weeks to create dashboards and have a meaningful representation of that huge amount of data. The team liked the options available with filters for using important data. We were able to save the templates with various parameters, filters, and rules which were easy to update with a refresh in a click. The visualizations also looked good as they had different color themes to separate out different parameters. We could also save the widgets and export them as excel sheets, pdf to extract data in shareable files. We intend to use this across a department.
Pros and Cons
  • Filters and their customization to make meaningful widgets and have multiple widgets in one dashboard view.
  • Ability to save templates that can be later refreshed without having to recreate them from scratch.
Likelihood to Recommend
MS Analytics is really helpful in the visualization of large data, after initial problems in loading, performance and functionalities are really good. MS Analytics is also useful in driving innovation with quick insights from large data sets. The Customer Support team has a scope for improvement—they could have better SDK documentation ready, they could do with shorter turn around time for bug fixes. We should be informed about updates beforehand and there are feature updates that make things a little confusing sometimes like a timeline feature update in the bar diagram was messed up once.

MSTR Makes Data Analysis a Breeze

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
December 10, 2018
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use MSTR organization wide to track KPIs for our brands. We have several dashboards set up based on brand and channel. MSTR allows for real time monitoring of KPIs and provides views of performance over time. It eliminates the need to constantly run queries to check results, saving countless hours of employee time.
Pros and Cons
  • Visual representation of data
  • Ease of use for setting up and modifying dashboards
  • Intuitive UX for non-experienced users
Likelihood to Recommend
MSTR is great for any organization that is looking for a way to deliver complicated data in an uncomplicated way. From business teams to marketing and finance, several departments benefit from using MSTR to keep track of KPIs enabling teams to make optimizations along the way. MSTR provides great visual representations of data enabling team members to distill thousands of data points into easily digestible charts and graphs.

Intensive and reliable tool

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
January 21, 2018
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Microstrategy Analytics is widely used in the company across all departments. Different level of access can be provided to different level of responsible persons. It is a very easy tool to get access of past data with different reports and presenting it with the help of variety of dashboard and VIs. Data collection and analysis is an essential function of it.
Pros and Cons
  • Data collection/data access- The tool uses different attributes and metrics to generate data for you in a required format with required filters.
  • Data Visualization- The tool has great function of creating Dashboards which are specially useful for higher management to review it.
  • Data Analytics- With great amount of functions, it does most of the excel work within itself. Eliminates excel in most of the fronts.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for: Creating Dashboards- This can handle high amount of data that too good amount of data manipulation flexibility. Dashboards can be modified pretty quickly and addition of data is also easy. Mirroring same dashboards is also easy where new view can be created and can be saved. There are lot of other benefits as well in terms of accessing data easily.

Microstrategy , very good but..

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 25, 2017
GS
Gonzalo Segarra
Sub-Gerente de Desarrollo
Hospital Aleman (Hospital & Health Care, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
5 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are trying to use it across all the organization as the only tool where you can find all the data of the company, making all kind of dashboards for managers and final users. We've also made "live" dashboard showing the status of the company.
The major problem is to make end users move from Excel to MS. The company leaves all this effort to the IT Team and does not make this a strategic decision.
Pros and Cons
  • Easy of use
  • Has improved a lot the visualization of data
  • Fast
Likelihood to Recommend
Very well suited for corporate reports, centralized info.
I don't find it very easy for end users not involved in the transformation of reports.

MicroStrategy Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
October 18, 2017
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It is being used across our health center in every department, from admin to ops to clinics. We are trying to use it with our scheduling program's data feed to solve TAT issues, staffing issues, and tracking issues. We've implemented several new policies around appointment cancellations due to findings in Microstrategy data. We also take in a feed from our EMR system for patient data research.
Pros and Cons
  • I think the dashboards are quite helpful to visualize on the spot data.
  • Creation of facts and attributes is simple - I have no programming experience and was still able to create and modify these items.
  • Scheduling reports to be run on a daily, weekly, or hourly basis is simple. It provides updated data on a timed basis with no need to go back into the program.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is appropriate when wishing to show big data to a group that needs to make informed decisions quickly, and that does not have a technical background and cannot get bogged down in percentages and technicalities. For those that want it, however, Microstrategy provides gridded reports that make detailed examination of data easy. Both are simple to create.

MicroStrategy - excellent tool in the right hands

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
March 01, 2017
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use MicroStrategy to provide a business intelligence solution for our clients. We use it to create reports and dashboards that our clients can use to analyze their business.
Pros and Cons
  • Customized dashboards between the desktop and web applications.
  • Shared objects which allows reusability in a number of different reports.
Likelihood to Recommend
Great if you have a data warehouse built as a star schema. Less useful with unstructured data.

Integrated and efficient analytics solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
October 17, 2016
VR
Vineet Rai
BI Architect
American Express (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
11 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Microstrategy is extensively used within my organization and other retail and finance clients I have worked with. MSTR is an efficient tool with numerous analytical, reporting and visualization features all clubbed in one - helps deliver grid reports, dashboards and mobile reports. We have used this for dynamic sourced reports and self analytics as well widely.
Pros and Cons
  • Integrated solution for delivering different types of reports through multiple mediums like web, mobile or distribution services.
  • Unique Schema and public objects concept saves development costs by allowing reusable components and maintenance across.
  • Having end to end MSTR implemented eliminates the need to look at different tools for in memory and visualization.
Likelihood to Recommend
Better suited for: For high volume and large number of reporting fields. For requirements where multiple modes of report delivery is required for ex: web, mobile and emails. Dynamic sourcing and self analytics with existing objects avoiding redevelopment efforts. Less appropriate: For small scale analytics considering cheaper options of analytics tools available. Creates complexity for a uncoordinated and distributed development team considering version control and Schema integration issues.

MSTR good for a structured environment

Rating: 5 out of 10
Incentivized
September 16, 2016
MS
Mark Szymula
BI Program Manager
Caseys General Store (Retail, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MSTR is being used by approximately three departments w/in Casey's. We plan on having MSTR be an enterprise-wide solution
Pros and Cons
  • MSTR Analytics does visualization very well.
  • Ad-Hoc analysis
Likelihood to Recommend
MSTR is suited for a well-governed, solid data environment. While I believe that MSTR, and the rest of BI as a whole, wants to move towards a more self-service business user environment - MSTR still needs a technical staff to support that self service

Simplifying reporting needs

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 29, 2016
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Microstrategy is currently being used by several different departments within the organization. It makes our reporting easier, where it provides the flexibility to automate much of it, as well as provide an easy to use interface for non sql savvy employees. It solves many of our reporting needs
Pros and Cons
  • Central location for reporting, makes it easier for several different departments to access different information
  • Automated reporting - allows us to schedule customized reports
  • Well formatted reports that are easy to run
Likelihood to Recommend
Microstrategy is great for organizations that are looking to empower all types of employees with the ability to retrieve relevant data for their business functions.

Enterprise BI Solution - Not an Analytics solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 27, 2016
PT
Pablo Tempone
Analista BI Senior
COA S A (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
5 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Microstrategy is used in one of our banking clients. It's used by different areas, some use it for alerts. Others use it as a dashboard solution or for ad-hoc reporting.
Pros and Cons
  • The governance and security layer, with the metadata layer.
  • Easy ad-hoc reporting creations.
  • Strong dashboard options.
Likelihood to Recommend
Is well suited if an organization needs a centralized and strong BI solution for data exploration.

MicroStrategy is a great product for medium to large size companies.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 23, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
5 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MicroStrategy Analytics is currently being used by Accounting, Finance, and Audit. It is being used to pull policy level detail reports, month end summary reporting for making entries to the general ledger, and MTD as well as YTD/ITD reporting with various views to support month end variance analysis. It is also used to perform SOX audit testing on an annual basis.
Pros and Cons
  • Automated reporting
  • Interactive dashboards
  • Large amounts of data
Likelihood to Recommend
It supports the web very well. It also supports desktop interfaces as well as mobile interfaces. It is well suited for on site staff as well as remote users. It is well suited for new users and well as experienced users. You can set up reporting to be like canned reporting or with variables that need to be changed from time to time.

MicroStrategy - Why, When & Where ??

Rating: 8 out of 10
June 11, 2016
AM
Abanish Mishra
Business Intelligence Analyst
Match.com (Internet, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
5 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Microstrategy is used as a reporting solution in my work environment. Microstrategy is used to interact on Hadoop, Microsoft SQL Server Tables, and SSAS MDX Cubes. Microstrategy's Visual Insight is used as a self service tool replacing Pivot tables & graph building in Excel.
Pros and Cons
  • Visual Insight is a very good tool for data discovery and for create quick dashboard presentation. This is is basically a online web based portal where you have capability to quickly slice & dice the data . Also it provides you options to create derived metrics & derived attribute (MSTR 10) with various mathematical or statistical functions. One of the major mention would be the map based data visualization where you can plot data based on Latitude & Longitude.Also with MSTR 10 following limitations were removed i) using hyperlink ii) HTML 5 is implemented instead of Flash ,so easy to be rendered in mobile too iii) Adding images is possible for hardcoding company logo & symbols
  • Drilling Capabilities. This requires some good backend data modeling. Once you bring in all the facts and dimensions you are supposed to establish relationship between them & create hierarchies. Then it would be easy to drill more & more. For example - Device hierarchy - (Device Used by User--> Browser-->Operating System)
  • Data Source Connectivity.
  • Enterprise Manager is basically BI to BI environment which is used by administrators or executives to track reporting usage, report performance,developer efficiency or frequency of usage & thousands of other statistics which proves to be very helpful in monitoring the efficiency of the whole environment. Once you set up Enterprise miner( which is a bit tricky) you will be able to access all the in built documents or you can custom built dashboard based on your usage
Likelihood to Recommend
MicroStrategy Analytics is not only a visualization layer but also data modeling tool itself. So you can bring in all your facts and dimensions and define the relationship in architect mode to build intelligent cubes. It shouldn't be mixed up with a visualization tool like Tableau which doesn't have any other capability (data architect and mining). Companies who need to use it only as a visualization layer tool shouldn't use MicroStrategy.

Comprehensive enterprise BI Tool

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
April 28, 2016
TJ
Tapan Jain
Senior Analyst
dunnhumby (Retail, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MicroStrategy Analytics is used by our organization to create highly interactive dashboards and reports with cutting edge visualizations. Currently, the front end and dashboards are being developed by only a single department but reports and dashboards are consumed across the organization and even clients.
The main advantage of MicroStrategy Analytics is that it can be accessed online through a web browser which eliminates the need to carry heavy Excel files. Also, the reports and dashboards are updated in real time which was not possible with Excel based dashboards.
Pros and Cons
  • It helps create dashboards that are personalized to a particular type of user. The access to the specific sections of dashboards and reports can be controlled and only the intended audience can access that information. This helps with distributing the same dashboard to different departments and even competitors.
  • The reports are completely responsive to different devices and can be accessed via any device of any resolution. Also, MicroStrategy offers a vast range of power visualizations like heat maps and can also connect with third party applications like Google Maps for additional functionality. Also, this functionality is present even on mobile devices.
  • With its Online Analytical Processing capabilities, users can modify the reports by slicing and manipulating the data as per their needs without executing the SQL query in the backend. This helps in saving a lot of development time as individual users can modify the report online by using filters and slicers without requiring the coding know how.
Likelihood to Recommend
MicroStrategy is well suited when reports have a wider audience but some parts need to be hidden from a specific audience. When there are very stringent deadlines to develop a new report or a dashboard, MicroStrategy should be avoided as it has a longer development time when compared to alternatives like Tableau. Also, when the reports are to be consumed while on the go, MicroStrategy has an edge over other alternatives.

From zero to hero.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 04, 2016
DM
Davide Moraschi
Business Intelligence Contractor, Author, Trainer
self employed (Computer Software, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
10 years of experience
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Pros and Cons
  • Build a complete Business Intelligence solution from the ground up. They provide desktop, web and mobile interfaces.
  • Analyze and report on large volumes of data from an extensive number of source databases.
  • Provides a full Software Development Kit (SDK) to personalize, customize and write your own BI applications and web sites.
Likelihood to Recommend
Be sure to grasp the basic concepts from the very beginning. A complete and updated ER Diagram of the data warehouse is needed. Read the manuals, as MicroStrategy is a very complex product and cannot be learned by trial and error. There is a book, which was recently published by PACKT, about the whole Business Intelligence development process: http://amzn.to/1by3HAO

MicroStrategy Reviewed from the Trenches

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 01, 2016
RK
Randy Kirschner
Sr MicroStrategy/BI Consultant
Cablevision (Telecommunications, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
8 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MicroStrategy is currently being used throughout the organization to address various ad-hoc requests.
Pros and Cons
  • Ad-hoc analysis
  • Dashboarding and visualizations
Likelihood to Recommend
MicroStrategy is good for dashboarding and mobile. The software offers a lot of functionality right out of the box and provides the users with many options to easily get at their data.

MicroStrategy - Retail made easy

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 01, 2016
FB
Frank Bluemke
Planning Manager Ecommerce
kate spade (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
6 years of experience
Pros and Cons
  • User Friendly
  • Abillity to manage large volumes of data from multiple sources
  • Narrowcast Reporting & Dashboard options
Likelihood to Recommend
I would make sure you understand what information the users will need and what level of detail is needed to ensure that the integration and setup process is configured with the end use in mind. Having examples of reports and information you already produce, where it is coming from and how it is used will help set you up correctly from the beginning avoiding timely changes later on.

Microstrategy... The Macro Problem Solver

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 01, 2016
SS
Shawn Stephens
Senior BI Developer
HMS (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
8 years of experience
Pros and Cons
  • The Microstrategy web front end is easy to navigate which makes it even easier to train our users on.
  • Microstrategy Visual Insight has added a new dimension to our content which allow for a story to be told about the data.
  • Microstrategy Mobile allows our executive team to analyze key KPI's at the swipe of a finger.
Likelihood to Recommend
MicroStrategy is well suited for companies that have at least 100+ users with varying skill sets. It is a very versatile tool with many access levels from Pro to Analyst; depending on your experience. Features such as subscriptions, visual insight, and mobile are very well received across departments for reporting. Transactional services is useful for light collaborative needs such as notating certain records. In my opinion MicroStrategy isn't suited for companies looking for heavy financial reporting or collaborative efforts.
Overall I have been using MicroStrategy for a little over 10 years and it has proven to fit most all of my reporting needs.

MicroStrategy - sexy reporting, if you can afford it..

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 10, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We created a new tool from scratch for our clients to be able to view their spend across all regions. MicroStrategy Analytics was brought on to help power the analytics portion of the tool.
Pros and Cons
  • Dashboards - MicroStrategy creates some very nice and visually appealing dashboards.
  • Data - The amount and volume of data that MicroStrategy can crunch is impressive, and it's a flexible tool to be configured and used how we want.
  • Speed - Despite the massive amount of data collected, it runs quite quickly.
Likelihood to Recommend
MicroStrategy Analytics is well suited for companies on a budget.

A full single sourced, enterprise BI Solution

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 29, 2016
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
7 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
MicroStrategy Analytics is being used as a full BI enterprise solution. We use MicroStrategy's full set of products, sourcing from an array of database technologies, but mostly from Microsoft SQL Server, Hadoop, Spark, and Storm. MicroStrategy Analytics solves the business problem of company wide data silos. In conjunction with an enterprise data warehouse, we can create a single source solution.
Pros and Cons
  • MicroStrategy Analytics has the best mobile BI on the market right now. The level of efforts (LOE) is very low for this type of development.
  • MicroStrategy Analytics's self-serve BI is very valuable to our business users and can cut development for BI developers by enabling business users to find business answers themselves.
  • The caching of Intelligence Cubes in MicroStrategy Analytics is a game changer. I have I-cubes with billions of rows stored in memory, ready at any moment.
Likelihood to Recommend
MicroStrategy Analytics can pull in just about any data source and answer meaningful business questions. I also believe MicroStrategy Analytics is the leader in providing a big data solution for BI. Tableau would not be able to handle the loads of data I throw at it. I do not think MicroStrategy Analytics is recommended for any small scale solution, but rather a large one.

MicroStrategy 10 - the best in BI

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 17, 2015
MF
Mario Ferrer
BI / DW Architect
Achievers (Computer Software, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
18 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We're building a new data warehouse and reporting system. MicroStrategy will be at the forefront of our strategy, providing a robust, multi-language, multi-tenant architecture for our customers and internally. It replaces our Excel, CSV based reporting company-wide.
Pros and Cons
  • Without a doubt, it scales, it is robust and the performance is great.
  • The latest enhancements for version 10 (like replacing Flash with HTML 5) address some previous issues and concerns.
  • They've closed the gap they had with Tableau and similar products with the introduction of Desktop, while still providing governed, data discovery. Something Tableau lacks.
Likelihood to Recommend
For us, multi-language, multi-tenant were some key features, but obviously many questions come to mind, depending on the needs, such as platform, big data support, data-blending, data-mashups, language, customizations, etc.
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