MicroStrategy Analytics Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 8.4 out of 10

Score

8.4 out of 10

Community insights

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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.

Reviews

47 Reviews

MicroStrategy Analytics is fantastic for data analytics

Rating: 10 out of 10

February 13, 2024

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

Data visulaizations
Security feature works well
Wide range of integration with data sources

Cons

Complexity in use for begginers
Advance features are tricky
Costly product, need to work on it
Interface may be more attractive

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.

Verified User

Administrator in Human Resources (11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

MicroStrategy Analytics Product Review

Rating: 2 out of 10

May 13, 2021

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

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.

Cons

[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.

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.

Jeff Harris

Hospitality Consultant in Corporate at TRO Hospitality (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 1, 2020

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

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

Cons

MicroStrategy Analytics desktop support waterfall model
Modern BI tools prefer agile methodologies
Correlating unstructured data sets gets challenging

Likelihood to Recommend

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Dharmesh Shah

Associate Principal in Information Technology at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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Microstrategy is the BEST BI tool out there...

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

January 2, 2020

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

Dashboards
Reporting Analytics.

Cons

Initial configurations
Support costs

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.

Verified User

Director in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 8, 2019

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

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.

Cons

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.

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.

Verified User

Analyst in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Strong and Easy Reporting

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

October 17, 2019

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

Visualization
Speed of access to reports
Easy report implementation

Cons

Visual diversity
New graphic interfaces
Some mathematical functions

Likelihood to Recommend

Some big data reports, some financial functionality.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

MSTR Makes Data Analysis a Breeze

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

December 10, 2018

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

Visual representation of data
Ease of use for setting up and modifying dashboards
Intuitive UX for non-experienced users

Cons

Sharing custom dashboards

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.

Verified User

Employee in Marketing (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

2 years of experience

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

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.

Cons

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.

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.

Rishi Bavishi, CSSGB, CAPM

Forecasting Analyst in Professional Services at Hilton (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

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Microstrategy , very good but..

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

October 25, 2017

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

Easy of use
Has improved a lot the visualization of data
Fast

Cons

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

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.

Gonzalo Segarra

Sub-Gerente de Desarrollo in Information Technology at Hospital Aleman (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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MicroStrategy Review

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

October 18, 2017

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

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.

Cons

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.

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.

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Analyst in Quality Assurance (501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

December 1, 2020

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

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

Cons

MicroStrategy Analytics desktop support waterfall model
Modern BI tools prefer agile methodologies
Correlating unstructured data sets gets challenging

Likelihood to Recommend

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Dharmesh Shah

Associate Principal in Information Technology at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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