MicroStrategy -Powerful enterprise BI tool, can you handle it?
Rating: 9 out of 10
December 01, 2020
DS
Vetted Review
Verified User
5 years of experience
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
Cons
- 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
450
Galileo Machines – Advance Analytics Solution for Manufacturing benefits
150
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.
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- 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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