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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?

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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Product Demos

MicroStrategy Analytics Product Demo v 10

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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.

10
Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

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

10
Avg 8.1

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

10
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.

10
Avg 8.0

Access Control and Security

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

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Avg 8.5

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

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Avg 8.0

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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Avg 7.9
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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

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 and Ratings

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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.

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MicroStrategy Analytics Product Review

Rating: 2 out of 10
May 13, 2021
JH
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
  • [I feel like] MicroStrategy Analytics implementation has had a large negative impact on the company. Significant amount of time and effort necessary to even get out the most basic of reports.
  • We are now having to run multiple reporting environments due to lack of capabilities in MicroStrategy Analytics.
  • [I feel like] we will likely migrate to a SaaS solution, and it won't be MicroStrategy Analytics.

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 01, 2020
DS
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
5 years of experience
  • 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

Integrated and efficient analytics solution

Rating: 8 out of 10
October 17, 2016
VR
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
11 years of experience
  • Good returns considering integrated objects and reports for multiple mediums
  • Not sure but cost of development seemed a little higher which is also an outcome of lack of good development vendors or resources. Not a concern over MSTR as a tool.
  • Deployment to mobile or distribute sharing is an advantage as object oriented architecture reduces rework and maintenance steps.

MicroStrategy - Retail made easy

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 01, 2016
FB
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
6 years of experience
  • Microstrategy allows our teams to quickly analyze large volumes of information to respond quickly to changing sales trends
  • Narrowcasting Reports keeps everyone in the loop on business and eliminates workload to produce the information
  • All measures of productivity have increased as more teams are trained on the system - from store field teams to corporate managers.

"Enterprise" BI in Microstrategy

Rating: 8 out of 10
May 11, 2015
JF
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
  • Increased efficiency through scheduled reporting.
  • Decreased manual "massaging" of data through automated reporting.
  • Standardized metrics across business verticals.

Microstrategy is 'great enough' for business.

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 29, 2015
WD
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
  • (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.

May not be suitable for all audience!

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 13, 2015
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
  • Access to accurate data in a timely fashion
  • With the prompting feature, a given report can be run with over 1000s of different permutations and combinations to meet individual's needs ranging from a sales manager to a CEO
  • Easy integration on MSTR reports with other web applications helps streamline our product offerings

Business Analytics Can Improve Quality of Service

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 09, 2014
SG
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
  • I could cut costs on license procurement while producing better reporting to customers. I was able to prove to management to invest a small amount in reporting.

MicroStrategy Review (Version 9)

Rating: 5 out of 10
November 16, 2013
TC
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
1 year of experience
  • MicroStrategy was helpful for reducing the amount of time we needed to spend number crunching large data sets, and in doing so, allowed me as the primary users to spend more time gleaning insights from the data that in turn informed our leadership team to make strategic decisions.
  • By creating numerous canned reports available to all members of the team through email distribution or basic access to the platform, we were able to reduce the time I spent showing people how to pull the data in Microsoft Excel by nearly 40% .
  • We ended up needing to make many changes to the way our DMP was feeding data into MicroStrategy due to incorrect reporting that caused complications in accounting and finance.

Micromanage your Business with Microstrategy

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 10, 2013
T(
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
9 years of experience
  • Primary source of data warehouse for all report creation makes this tool invaluable to business.
  • Report creation and save for later use makes this a tool we can go back to again and again.
  • Ability to can reports and edit allow us to analyze business and better serve our internal and external customers.

Srini's MSTR review

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 09, 2013
SV
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
  • Increased elf suffciency. I was part of a business group wit not many technical folks and MSTR helpe us become self reliant in pulling important business metrics without relying on engineers or DBA's.
  • Accuracy was sometimes questionable. This probably has to do with the way it was setup in my company but data lags were sometmes an issue which caused confusion because data would be diffrent depending on the time you pulled it.

Reporting and Analysis for the Non-Techie

Rating: 8 out of 10
November 06, 2013
SH
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
5 years of experience
  • Greatly enhances our ability to help customers understand their data -- we import client data into Microstategy to provide a variety of services to them.
  • Provides one version of the truth as all reports/dashboards access the exact same data, formulas, metrics, etc.
  • Gained tremendous flexibility for all sorts of reporting and analysis needs. Beyond anything we could build ourselves in-house.

Need a BI tool? MSTR is for you!

Rating: 9 out of 10
November 06, 2013
MS
Vetted Review
Verified User
MicroStrategy Analytics
3 years of experience
  • Faster for end users to run reports (as compared with an analyst writing the reports).
  • MSTR makes it easier to get large reports out to clients. This saves on time an analyst would take to manually run and email the reports.
  • Employee efficiency is amazing - now line account managers can run their own reports. Amazing.
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