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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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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.
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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| 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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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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November 01, 2021
Strong and Easy Reporting
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.
- Visualization
- Speed of access to reports
- Easy report implementation
- Visual diversity
- New graphic interfaces
- Some mathematical functions
May 13, 2021
MicroStrategy Analytics Product Review
Score 2 out of 10
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Verified User
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.
- 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.
- [I feel like] compared to it's peers, this product is not ready for primetime. Has almost no capabilities "out of the box" good luck finding ANY canned reporting capabilities
- Almost non-existent ecosystem for finding trained help. Relative to the 'big guys" there are not consultants or candidates you can find on the open market to actually help you implement
- [I feel like they should] stop answering feature limitations by saying "go to the cloud product". If we wanted a SaaS solution, [there] are MUCH better ones than MicroStrategy Analytics. Your primary value proposition is it can be installed locally. I didn't realize that meant we would be limited in functionality to the dark ages.
December 01, 2020
MicroStrategy -Powerful enterprise BI tool, can you handle it?
MicroStrategy is being implemented for our customers. I'm doing consulting assignment to plan design, architecture, blue prints and best practices to be followed
- 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
- Online training
Yes
Yes, upgrade was seamless. You need the right skills for the same.
January 02, 2020
Microstrategy is the BEST BI tool out there...
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.
- Dashboards
- Reporting Analytics.
- Initial configurations
- Support costs
November 08, 2019
Perfect data visualization tool for ease of generating reports and valuable customer insights!
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.
- 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.
- Takes a little longer to configure initially and is a big load on the data server.
- Doesn't have a unified interface and has two separate interfaces for lots of features.
- Support team could be more efficient and have documentation ready to share after helping out with issues.
December 10, 2018
MSTR Makes Data Analysis a Breeze
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.
- Visual representation of data
- Ease of use for setting up and modifying dashboards
- Intuitive UX for non-experienced users
- Sharing custom dashboards
January 21, 2018
Intensive and reliable tool
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.
- 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.
- Better user interface- The only thing that comes out is there is a high scope of modifying user interface. Currently it is not as good as Tableau in terms of user interface.
October 25, 2017
Microstrategy , very good but..
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.
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.
- Easy of use
- Has improved a lot the visualization of data
- Fast
- For use it take a lot of time to prepare the correct data. I don't know it there is some MicroSrategy magic solution to make it faster
- Better comunication with client
- Improve dashboards, losing with competitors
October 18, 2017
MicroStrategy Review
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.
- 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.
- The graph options are not as robust as an Excel user might want.
- The metadata layer can sometimes be slower, and it takes a long time for reports to run.
- Viewing the data feed entered can be cumbersome at times, in terms of validation with reports.
March 01, 2017
MicroStrategy - excellent tool in the right hands
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.
- Customized dashboards between the desktop and web applications.
- Shared objects which allows reusability in a number of different reports.
- Web tool still doesn't have all the customization possible in the developer application.
- Rigid star scheme requirements creates complications in unstructured data.
- I would love to see out of the box "what-if" scenario functionality.
October 17, 2016
Integrated and efficient analytics solution
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.
- 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.
- Version control and parallel development limitation- I understand it somehow conflicts the architecture specialities but point to be thought over.
- Visual Insights capabilities to compete with Tableau like reports.
- MSTR services and technical support teams response time - not always a concern but can definitely be improved.
September 16, 2016
MSTR good for a structured environment
MSTR is being used by approximately three departments w/in Casey's. We plan on having MSTR be an enterprise-wide solution
- MSTR Analytics does visualization very well.
- Ad-Hoc analysis
- As w/ any tool - the data underneath MSTR has to governed and structured correctly to use in a self service environment
- MSTR almost demands that you have an MSTR Administrator on staff to keep the semantic layer fresh
July 29, 2016
Simplifying reporting needs
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
- 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
- My organization is on an older version of the tool with a lot less bells and whistles
- If an employee is familiar with SQL enough, they can avoid using microstrategy
- No other major cons
June 27, 2016
Enterprise BI Solution - Not an Analytics solution
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.
- The governance and security layer, with the metadata layer.
- Easy ad-hoc reporting creations.
- Strong dashboard options.
- Merging data from different sources has been improved a lot but it's not easy to create a query manually.
- Training metrics - it's not easy to use for users. But the new method of R integration could change that.
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.
- Automated reporting
- Interactive dashboards
- Large amounts of data
- Formatting of reports
- Moving data around on a report at the user level
- Creating applications
June 11, 2016
MicroStrategy - Why, When & Where ??
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
- 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
- Visual Insight have multiple limitations. Few of them are listed here - i)Cannot change default graph colors ii) text/graph formatting are very very limited iii)Add metric to Color by / Thresholds is not possible iv)one of the worst limitation of the VI in older versions is that it is not possible to create filters that apply only to a specific visualization. For example if there are 4 graphs in one dashboard & if you have filters then those filters would be applicable for all of them
- Some formatting options are not there either on Web or Developer especially while dealing with a document. We have to use both Web & Developer to solve issues.
- While connecting with MDX cube reporting loses a lot of features.
April 28, 2016
Comprehensive enterprise BI Tool
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.
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.
- 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.
- ESRI ArcGIS maps can only be integrated and accessed with internet connectivity which becomes a limitation when using only with LAN connectivity.
- The community/forum is not very active with a limited number of users and low quality content.
- Some functionalities are missing from the web version and are only present in the desktop version. Also, dashboards over the web still lack integration with HTML5.
March 04, 2016
From zero to hero.
- 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.
- Support for HTML5 is still at the beginning. The latest features were developed with Adobe Flash, which sometimes is not the best and fastest solution. HTML5 with CSS and SVG would probably be more portable and a smoother experience to the user.
- I personally would like to see native OAuth 1.0 and 2.0 Support. And the ability to directly attach JSON data feeds like Google provided data.
- Web Services documentation could be improved and expanded with more examples.
March 01, 2016
MicroStrategy Reviewed from the Trenches
MicroStrategy is currently being used throughout the organization to address various ad-hoc requests.
- Ad-hoc analysis
- Dashboarding and visualizations
- There's no clean tree/hierarchical display of attributes that allows me to see the entire tree on one screen. This also translates to a report with one column showing the indentation for nested categories.
- The interaction and user interface with dealing with a prompted report is less than desirable. Many users hate the interface and find it difficult to use.
- Not all features are available in web when designing dashboards. You often have to bounce back and forth from Desktop to Web in order to get to the option you're looking for.
March 01, 2016
MicroStrategy - Retail made easy
- User Friendly
- Abillity to manage large volumes of data from multiple sources
- Narrowcast Reporting & Dashboard options
- Creating documents is very technical and requires training
- Graphing tools are difficult to use
- Setting up alerts and email distributions could be easier
Yes
March 01, 2016
Microstrategy... The Macro Problem Solver
- 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.
- I think that although Visual Insight is a new tool that it probably has the most upside to it. Adding features that are available on the Report Services side would be great for VI.
February 10, 2016
MicroStrategy - sexy reporting, if you can afford it..
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.
- 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.
- Cost to implement - since they use partner firms to do many of their implementations (perhaps all, not sure?), the implementation is quite pricey if you want a full featured product.
January 29, 2016
A full single sourced, enterprise BI Solution
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.
- 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.
- The developer desktop product could use some UI enhancements. It's been the same for many years.
- The world would be a better place if custom groups and consolidation were supported in Visual Insight and I-Cubes.
- A more simplify licensing model.
- It's expensive.
August 17, 2015
MicroStrategy 10 - the best in BI
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.
- 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.
- It is hard for me to point out room for improvement. Version 10 just came out and I haven't had the chance to fully experiment with it, but it looks very good so far.
June 10, 2015
Why we work with MicroStrategy Analytics
We are a reseller and we implement it for our customers in big data for internal, SaaS and OEM environments.
- Visualization
- Very fast query engine
- Complex analytics
- Full BI solution platform
- It should simple and easy to use
- SDK
- Flash move to html