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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
Vetted ReviewVerified User
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
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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
Vetted ReviewVerified 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, ...
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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
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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

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
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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/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Product Demos

MicroStrategy Analytics Product Demo v 10

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MicroStrategy Analytics Product Demo v10 (With Voice)

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MicroStrategy - Analytics Desktop (Basic) - Online Training Video by MicroRooster

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MicroStrategy - Analytics (Visual Insight) - Online Training Video by MicroRooster

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

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

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Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

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Avg 8.0

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

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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.

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Avg 7.9

Access Control and Security

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

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Avg 8.6

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

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Avg 7.8

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

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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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The most common users of MicroStrategy Analytics are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Reporting and Analysis for the Non-Techie

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 06, 2013
SH
Sid Haas
Vice President of Business Development
LKCS (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
5 years of experience
Pros
  • Drag and drop analysis for users that don't need any database knowledge or programming experience.
  • Beautiful dashboards that load quickly and provide instant snapshots and/or trends over time.
  • Ability to extend from desktop to mobile with relative ease.
Cons
  • Microstrategy Web and Microstrategy Desktop work slightly differently. There are still some functions that need to be completed in the Desktop software that are not available through a browser.
  • Web-based dashboards still utilize Flash. I expect to hear about a transition to HTML5 or something similar, but have not yet heard about this. Microstrategy Mobile solutions do not require Flash.
  • Product licensing is difficult to understand.
Likelihood to Recommend
Success with Microstrategy (or any BI tool) begins with your data. Spend the time and effort it takes to clean up your data and develop bullet-proof ETL (Extract - Transform - Load) procedures and scripts to keep that data clean at all times. Ensure that you have excellent performance from your database server(s) and plenty of memory available for Microstrategy's tremendous caching engines.

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
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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
  • 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
Cons
  • 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.
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.

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
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
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 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
  • Ad-hoc analysis
  • Dashboarding and visualizations
Cons
  • 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.
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 Review (Version 9)

Rating: 5 out of 10
November 16, 2013
TC
Toreyan Clarke
Strategy and Market Development Analyst
MediaMath (Banking, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
1 year of experience
Pros
  • MicroStrategy was a helpful tool for providing daily, monthly, and quarterly reporting due to the ability to build automated reports that can be sent to large groups of people using distribution lists.
  • I found MicroStrategy very helpful when putting together monthly performance reviews using the visual reporting tools. The ease with which I was able to switch from data tables to charts as a better way to tell stories about complicated data sets was particularly useful.
  • When we needed to pull user information for targeted marketing campaigns, MicroStrategy dramatically reduced the amount of time we spent tying User IDs to user activity within our DMP. In turn, we were able to leverage the data to create user segments which helped us focus our marketing spend more effectively for marketing campaigns.
Cons
  • Perhaps it was the nature of the size of the company I previously worked for, but the amount of time it took for changes and upgrades to be implemented was a bit frustrating at times.
  • It would be incredibly helpful if users had the ability to make changes to metrics and attributes without having to rely to heavily on MicroStrategy developers, it would make the product a great deal more useful.
  • Being able to distribute rich MicroStrategy reports without sending enormous emails was problematic at times. If there was a way to let data rich reports being distributed via email live in a web environment would be a big plus for the platform.
  • Being unable to view reports on smartphones was a bit of a pain at times as well, particularly when you need to send reports to colleagues working off-site without a laptop or desktop computer available.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would say MicroStrategy is useful for someone who is 100% dedicated to manipulating data as their day-to-day responsibility. It is also important to set expectations with individuals who will be using your work in MicroStrategy to be aware of the fact that it takes time for the main users to become familiar with the platform. Additionally, you must be willing to constantly inform your team of any issues arising with reporting for the platform.
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