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MicroStrategy | 9.4.1*Windows, Windows 2008 2012.10.10 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Implementation Partner
What do you like best about the product?
Mobile delivery - dashboard elements
Building great dashboards and reports for consumption by mobile users is great
Building great dashboards and reports for consumption by mobile users is great
What do you dislike about the product?
Can take long to deploy
Complex to deploy
Complex to deploy
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business Intelligence reports / Dashboards
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Embeding Microstrategy in the application
What do you like best about the product?
Performance solutions and metadata creation possibilities. Enterprise ready features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Front end design - especially pixel perfect document creation interfaces.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As partner we use Microstrategy in the application that we develop as a reporting tool.
Improving BI Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Visualizations
Re-usability
Run time linking of attributes and KPIs.
The way attributes and KPIs are linked is amazing.
The multiple options in the VLDB settings is awesome
Re-usability
Run time linking of attributes and KPIs.
The way attributes and KPIs are linked is amazing.
The multiple options in the VLDB settings is awesome
What do you dislike about the product?
Schema locks
Migration processes.
A more robust way to move objects would be great.
A way where the objects will be collected automatically in a request.
More like in SAP systems
Migration processes.
A more robust way to move objects would be great.
A way where the objects will be collected automatically in a request.
More like in SAP systems
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Multiple applications related to P&L, store managment and operations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Visual Insights is amazing tool
My Microstrategy Review
What do you like best about the product?
Microstrategy synchronization between web and developer. single interface for end users to create their content and view it on the web directly. Microstrategy's distribution services is one among the best features. The rich looking dashboards that can be created using Microstrategy compared to other tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the basic type of filters (Drop down+search+checkbox) and few other combinations which are very much basic filtering types which should be available are missing. recent versions have lot of bugs, and Microstrategy asking customer to upgrade to next versions is not the solution, as the next versions have some other bugs which need to be addressed before releasing newer versions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Transaction services, Microstrategy office are helping one of the best features, though transaciton services needs some bug fixes in version 10
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Know your usage before choosing any tool.. each tool has its advantages and limitation. Comparing tools will not help.
Microstrategy User Review
What do you like best about the product?
The MSTR schema provides a comprehensive OLAP layer that ensures that the data is accessed with highly optimized queries and with a pretty good performance. Also, the support for mobile transactions is a really useful feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the old dashboards and documents are not that good looking. Also Visual Insights still needs some polishing to compare to other self service BI tools like Tableau.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main business problem that we are solving is granting access to our stakeholders to their information, from a centralized location but using a federated model that allows them to use Visual Insights for Self Service BI with out the need to contact the BI staff for ad hoc reporting or for frequently asked business questions.
We create self service spaces that include only the information that they need and we empower them to create BI solutions by themselves.
We create self service spaces that include only the information that they need and we empower them to create BI solutions by themselves.
A great product!!
What do you like best about the product?
It is so easy to learn this product. So easy to create a report!
What do you dislike about the product?
Infact I don't have any dislikes. It's a nice product!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My vendor uses this tool to dashboard the Broadcast ratings.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would strongly recommend this tool for any data discovery!
Legacy systems like Mainframe, the data resides there can be easily pulled using an ETL and load into MSTR will give you an nth dimension to the data viewing experience! such a nice tool.
Legacy systems like Mainframe, the data resides there can be easily pulled using an ETL and load into MSTR will give you an nth dimension to the data viewing experience! such a nice tool.
One Stop Platform For All Flavours Of BI
What do you like best about the product?
The OLAP functionality of this product is best in class. The cubes created in MSTR can utilize all cores of the server and thus can be configured to use MPP architecture.
Another feature to highlight here is the latest Big Data Engine; MSTR's BDE is a Yarn based application that embeds right on top of Hadoop FS providing direct access to files in FS without need of any other language - Pig/Impala/Hive. I believe this is the closest a BI tool can embed on top of Hadoop FS.
The last one (not a feature though) which I would like to mention is the SQL that MSTR engine creates to retrieve data from warehouse. The multi-pass SQL is a very effective tool that provides lot of VLDB settings to tweak the SQL in regards to database, load and multiple other factors.
Another feature to highlight here is the latest Big Data Engine; MSTR's BDE is a Yarn based application that embeds right on top of Hadoop FS providing direct access to files in FS without need of any other language - Pig/Impala/Hive. I believe this is the closest a BI tool can embed on top of Hadoop FS.
The last one (not a feature though) which I would like to mention is the SQL that MSTR engine creates to retrieve data from warehouse. The multi-pass SQL is a very effective tool that provides lot of VLDB settings to tweak the SQL in regards to database, load and multiple other factors.
What do you dislike about the product?
Version control is still a major concern in MicroStrategy. I am aware that MSTR is working on it as an enhancement.
License cost is also on the heavier side. Perhaps the desktop version that launched recently, might help ease pressure on budget.
License cost is also on the heavier side. Perhaps the desktop version that launched recently, might help ease pressure on budget.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We were able to automate multiple repetitive tasks in the BI environment using administrative tools provided with this product. This helped the team focus their energies on critical work tasks.
Great governed data analytics platform
What do you like best about the product?
Reusability through metadata, enterprise capabilities and security are the top differentiator and help for users and developers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Users tend to perceive the whole platform as confusing and hard to configure.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
There are no such thing as too much data or calculations too hard to perform. With a good data model, MicroStrategy glides into data with little to no effort, giving great answers to business users.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Focus on an enterprise implementation first then spread to business users specific needs to ensure a better hit rate.
Good for what is does, however for sure has room for improvement
What do you like best about the product?
Visual Insight (and the way it does OLAP on the fly!)
Transactional Document
Maths / financial library and functions.
Transactional Document
Maths / financial library and functions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Limited visualisations in Visual Insights.
No Microstrategy maintained bug free repository of Visualisations.
Installing new Visualisations from community repositories can break existing running visualisations.
Uncontrolled buggy updates to community repository of visualisations.
Visualisations are not able to support many dimensions in a meaningful way, most work with only a few dimensions.
Triggers are not very intuitive or useful in the first attempt.
Microstrategy Office plugin does not support Visual Insight.
Upgrades can break existing running projects.
No Microstrategy maintained bug free repository of Visualisations.
Installing new Visualisations from community repositories can break existing running visualisations.
Uncontrolled buggy updates to community repository of visualisations.
Visualisations are not able to support many dimensions in a meaningful way, most work with only a few dimensions.
Triggers are not very intuitive or useful in the first attempt.
Microstrategy Office plugin does not support Visual Insight.
Upgrades can break existing running projects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I had variety of problems to solve. Spectrum includes from Product analytics, Marketing analytics, Company KPIs to Financial calculations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is nothing better than this out there!
One of the best BI tool available in the market
What do you like best about the product?
Strong SQL engine and ease of mobile app development
What do you dislike about the product?
still some features are only available in developer and not in web.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
deliver key business metrics to the users across enterprise with proper security
Recommendations to others considering the product:
consider this if you are looking for a complete solution which fits for enterprise reporting as well as self service aspect.
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