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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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- Pixel Perfect reports (22)3.030%
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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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MicroStrategy Analytics Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| 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.
Reviewers rate Predictive Analytics highest, with a score of 9.9.
The most common users of MicroStrategy Analytics are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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
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- Faster ROI through reduced implementation cycle
- Improved quality of yield and throughput
- Reduced equipment downtime
- Reduced production cost
- Long-term strategic management of production assets
- Enhanced operational efficiency
- Precise machine failures predictions
- Standardized & optimized data repository resulting in better pricing strategy and increase in revenue & profitability
- Better decision making capability and efficient on-boarding of end users through a near real-time reporting platform
- Four major investor segmentation reports for frontline staff to get complete view of investors
- Transformation from a Product centric organization to a Customer centric organization to become a True Global Consumer Bank
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Galileo Machines – Advance Analytics Solution for Manufacturing benefits
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MicroStrategy BI tools implementation and support skills needed
- MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
- MicroStrategy Architect
- WEB SDK
- Visualization SDK
- Customizations Explorer
- MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server
- MicroStrategy Office
- Intelligence Cubes
- Mobile Integration
- Global Financial Services Institution -Standardization of Open Collateral Application
- Largest Home Improvement Specialty Retailer -Pricing Analytics
- Leading Financial Group in Canada -Investor MDM & Analytic
- US Based Global Bank -Generating 360°view of Customer
- SMR Self-service- Consolidated 1400+ Senior Management Reports (SMR) documents into 8 document using MSTR MTDI Cube Feature, thus reduced development effort as well as 50+ SMR cubes reduced to 1 cube (99% reduction). SMR SS – Functionality is in Production in June enables users can build and customize, save their own reports.
- Periscope (Retail analytics) is a predictive data mining accelerator that caters to Retail industry addressing various facets viz. sales profile, customer churn by mapping regression model to dashboard thus better understanding shoppers.
- This framework is aimed to increase the analytical capabilities of the P&C insurance companies through creating a DWH by integrating various source data with geo spatial information. The integrated DWH with geo coordinates helps in managing natural catastrophes and improved underwriting analysis by creating reports and computing KPI's.
No
- Advisor recommendation
- Implementation support
- Reduction in time-to-market for new campaigns
- Error Reduction in customer Identification
- Reduction in On-Boarding processing
- Improved Underwriting Analysis by creating reports and computing KPI's
Purely depends on the business requirement and need of the hour
- Implemented in-house
No
Change management was minimal
Better plan and prioritize the deliverables
- Data Modelling
- Project Architecting needs to plan properly
- Online training
Yes, we have created best practices and lesson learnt for configuring MicroStrategy Analytics used by our team
No - we have not done any customization to the interface
No - we have not done any custom code
Yes, we have created best practices and lesson learnt for configuring MicroStrategy Analytics used by our team
Yes
Premium supports give you access to latest service packs and knowledge base
No
On demand webinars and in-person seminar for the topics we needed. Support to resolve technical hurdles to make implementation successful.
- Highly accurate customer and transaction data helped client comprehend and react to paradigm shifts, and maximize profit or minimize loss
- Created Central information store with powerful analytics capability
- Useful for due diligence processes or to detect potential fraud
- Designed to accommodate and manage change
- Streamlining and Automation of business processes for greater efficiency
- Data Modelling
Yes
Support good mobile user interface. We have given our users access to the dashboard on mobile
License cost
Yes
Yes, upgrade was seamless. You need the right skills for the same.
- Access to the latest service pack features
- Innovation
- Collaboration
- Artificial Intelligence
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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.
Speed, visually, and sales process - MicroStrategy outranked Cognos by far.
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Requirements, configuration, testing/re-config, UAT, deployment
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
- Technology constraints connecting our data warehouse to the BI tool.
April 29, 2015
Microstrategy is 'great enough' for business.
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Microstrategy is our primary BI delivery environment and is being used for the entire organization. We have a unique business case in that our organization is the BI department for hundreds of other organizations; however, attributes, metrics, and nomenclature are different although using the same data set. In addition, our data sets are 10s to 100s of millions of rows of data. Microstrategy scales for large datasets and has just enough flexibility to address these problems.
- Aggregate awareness.
- The ability for the SQL generator to select the correct aggregate table, whether a hierarchy or dates, is invaluable to organizations with less mature database developer resources.
- Delivery of reports, particularly web-based delivery.
- Microstrategy provides the most options for report delivery, scheduling, and formats; a requirement of self-service BI.
- Managing metadata
- Microstrategy's architecture prefers a star schema; this can serve as a virtual ER builder and help locate possible bottlenecks in the database design.
- Scheduling delivery; the use of schedules is very inflexible.
- Instead of building specific delivery objects, a schedule builder (similar to MS Outlook) will push Microstrategy ahead of the competition. The schedule objects add to the maintenance.
- FTP/sFTP delivery options.
- Internal delivery to file systems and availing the file location to FTP is good, but often times external FTP/sFTP is required. Currently, BI engineers have to build external processes to deliver to external FTP.
- Desktop dashboard development; it is a bit disjointed.
- Dashboard development options are different between desktop (now called developer) and web are different. We often have developer and web open at the same time to build dashboards.
- Architect product; still hasn't gained global acceptance for schema management.
- More flexible cross-tab development.
- There's an idea I have about joining data sets where there's aggregate data combined with crosstab data. The example i use is a annual budget (metric) along side monthly spend (metric). Today, the annual budget must be an attribute which means it cannot be used in calculations.
- Tableau Desktop,Emanio,QlikView,TIBCO Spotfire,Information Builders WebFOCUS,Pentaho,IBM Cognos
As a whole Microstrategy is good in more areas than the others are great in specific ones. It is probably not #1 in any particular category of BI Tool evaluations, but they are #2 or #3 in more categories than the all of the other tools we have evaluated. We selected Microstrategy originally as a client request. As we became disenchanted with workflow and or design, our evaluation of other BI tools fell so far short of functionality in Microstrategy that it was an obvious choice (using an 80-20 rule).
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- (positive) Improved analytics delivery due to the flexibility of the web platform.
- (positive) Generated new lines of business via dashboard development.
- (negative) Long development cycles.
- (positive) Shorter QA cycles for analytics leveraging Integrity Manager.
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Business Intelligence and overall analytics for the organization; both standard and custom.
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- Database developers
- Data warehouse developers
- Business analysts
- Product Development
- Network Admins
- Standard analytics.
- Business intelligence.
- Dashboards.
- Custom report generation.
- Account management.
- Mobile dashboards.
- Client-specific, custom dashboards.
- Validation of datasets.
- Self-service BI.
- Data warehouse design validation.
- Two-way analytics to action system.
Yes
- SSRS - Frontend management was difficult and could not integrate with our other systems; primarily because of security.
- Custom ASP - many features were missing from the ASP reporting packages that exist in MSTR (scheduling, view filters, schema binding, dashboards, etc.). in addition, the DEV cycles were too long.
- MS Excel - multiple versions of the truth were constantly beibg delivered to clients via unreliable means (emails, personal cloud storage, et al.)
- Price
- Product Features
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
One of our largest clients needed a platform independent reporting system and had used MSTR in the past. We had evaluated several other products and determined that, based on price-to-value and maturity, Microstrategy was easily the best choice. Platform independence (web-delivery), delivery methods, scheduling, governance, and speed...all features leading to self-service analytics were best provided by Microstrategy.
We probably would have forced a full bake off between Microstrategy and the other vendors instead of selecting a production based on an extended POC. We gave Microstrategy, and their consultants, an opportunity to customize the demos and features around the limitations of the product. Had we given the same opportunities to other potential vendors, I think the other vendor's would've had a better opportunity.
- Implemented in-house
- Professional services company
HITastics
No
Change management was minimal
Modifications to the underlying schema must be made with care.
- Forcing query optimization via level metrics and VLDB settings
- Setting up DB connections
- Styling, styling, styling
Yes
fast paced environment needs quick responses.
Yes
Yes
There have been multile times that we have had product installation and licensing issues. In every case they were able to provide both a temporary and permanent solution to our issue.
- Grid Report Generation
- User Management
- Installation
- Visual Insight
- Documents/Dashboard
- Database Connections
- Attribute/metric generation
- Report API
- Styling
Yes
The mobile interface is one of the bright spots of the product. To get setup on mobile is literally a 3-5 step process that is fairly intuitive. The reports are responsive and immediately convert to the mobile interface via the MSTR Mobile app. The only challenge is in the first versions of the app, Android was inconsistent and the focus was on iOS.
April 08, 2015
Ground level perspective of MicroStrategy
We use MicroStrategy Analytics in many departments, the span of support goes from Business users to IT support. This tool is intended to be the "one stop shop" for all reporting needs. We are able to connect many different data sources which tend to be common in large companies. The current implementation met our needs in the past and we are adapting to use it better and more efficiently for future needs. I believe when configured correctly, this product can meet all requirements for our department and all other departments.
- Extremely fast and reliable sql generation, report and document development.
- Flexibility and integration with nearly all data sources.
- Self reliant product, many out of the box products that allow easy maintenance, development, and monitoring.
- Cost of product is more reasonable than many other in its class.
- Reports and documents produced can be pixel perfect and allow for extremely custom dashboards and scorecards.
- There are many tools and products in the whole Analytics suite, I find this cumbersome and would like to see all these tools brought together
- There is no version control built into the product. Versioning seems outdated and the principle way of handling versions is outdated and I think should be remodeled.
- To a new user, learning the entirety of all MicroStrategy products is difficult and can take a long time to adapt to.
I have only used SSRS 2012 and MicroStrategy 9.4.1 as reporting tools. SSRS is not as fully featured as MicroStrategy and does not have the same level of quality in the delivery of expert reports. MicroStrategy meets many more needs out of the box and allows for many more options than SSRS. Microstrategy is in a higher class of Business Intelligence tools than SSRS. Also MicroStrategy rivals SAP and Cognos however price points of MicroStrategy is far more reasonable than others in class.
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- Implemented in-house
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The phases for implementation were based on Microstrategy best practices. Our Data warehouse was already present, the install phase of the IServer and Web server were simple. The Design of the project schema was by far the hardest part of the entire operation. While the schema was being created, there were many changes needed on the data warehouse, however changes on the data warehouse were not feasible at the time. The only other option was to use the logical views Microstrategy to access the data at the required levels. After the schema was created, the creation of metrics, filters and groups were done by understanding the business model. The last phase was to build the reports and documents that meet the customer need. Often times a customer request on a report does not exist in the data warehouse and we would have to adjust the tables in the data warehouse. These changes are not very difficult once the structure is in place which works well into an Agile environment.
- As far as implementation of the infrastructure, there were not many.
- The most difficult part of implementation was collecting all required information to accurately depict the data model.
- Online training
- Self-taught
This product is not easy to learn without training. I would not recommend a self taught approach. The classes are a bit expensive, however the time saved is worth it.
Yes
Because we receive an excellent support for a product which we have very little in house experience.
Yes
I have never had a bug resolved from MicroStrategy. MicroStrategy has a nice way of showing which of the bugs logged by a customer has been resolved in a patch. However none of my bugs have ever been addressed.
I received exceptional support when we had to change our entire data model and there were many concerns and questions I had with an upgrade path. The case was flagged by me as level 1 (highest) and I was contacted within minutes and given the solution within the hour.
- Creating metrics and filters
- Creating a mobile application
- Creating dashboards
- Use Visual Insights
- Understanding the core of the IServer
- The differences between MicroStrategy Web and MicroStrategy Developer. Some features exists in one and not the other.
Yes
it works very well. Normally what is built to work on the web can work on the mobile platform.