MicroStrategy Review
October 18, 2017
MicroStrategy Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Analytics Enterprise
Overall Satisfaction with MicroStrategy Analytics
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.
- 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.
- 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.
Tableau was more costly and took longer to learn to use. While it does have some perks (such as no metadata layer), I find using the online version of Tableau is not as fast as the online version of Microstrategy, and creating data descriptors is easier in the latter. Tableau does not offer customization of reports as easily, either.