Free MicroStrategy Suite
MicroStrategy | 9.4.1*Windows, Windows 2008 2012.10.10 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Not the best
What do you like best about the product?
drill down ability of reports, but not much more than that
What do you dislike about the product?
not user friendly interface/cluncky interface for the user experience
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
use for creating reports
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Terrible.
What do you like best about the product?
It looks pretty and used AJAX to interact instead of our old report center which used activex.
What do you dislike about the product?
Every update produced more bugs than it fixed. Would require entire reports to be re-worked.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We run a report center, so it works well with that.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Licensing is out of control. Worse than Cisco!
Consider carefully
What do you like best about the product?
The Desktop application is now free.
Pricing model is clearer than earlier but..
Pricing model is clearer than earlier but..
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation, inconsistencies, lack of details, and lack of solid examples. Poor if you compare to Teradata, Tableau and SAS.
Online Training options. Limited. I was at a user conference and they all recommended Youtube. A non
Microstrategy employee had made some videos. Very disappointing if you compare to Tableau. That includes transcripts of their material. SAS has just two (2) free online options but they are very good and fairly comprehensive.
Staff/ Resources: Cannot find any in the job market.
Tech Support: Disappointing, on par with Business Objects apparently. SAS were mostly good. Tableau looks alright thus far.
Software usability: users going very well with Tableau. Generally dislike Microstrategy, this is the non Desktop reporting version though.
Bugs /Shortcomings: I have a vendor consultant spending most of his time spent on making the software do what it is supposed to do/ investigating software issues/ workarounds. One year on Office add-in.. To be fair that does have environmental aspects but if they had some clearer documentation on ports used, protocols, etc that would have helped. .
Enterprise Manager: this is something that helps with reporting on usage. It has alot of prebuilt reports. But there are no clear definitions of the columns. There are also in some hardcoded URL links, with ASP references. We use Unix. Makes the prebuilt reporting useless. As was recommended by the vendor, best to make your own reports.
Consultant level of training/ knowledge: Upgrade from version 9 to 10. Quoted 1 month. Gave up after 3 months. Work done by vendor consultants. Do feel sorry for them but . .
Lack of security reporting, auditing capability. SAS has some options there that are ok.
Pricing model is clearer than earlier but making it hard to make it transparent on exact costings for items, based on varies levels of discounts.
Two types of releases, Platform and Foundation release. Foundation release is supported for just 6 months. . I hope that changes.
Online Training options. Limited. I was at a user conference and they all recommended Youtube. A non
Microstrategy employee had made some videos. Very disappointing if you compare to Tableau. That includes transcripts of their material. SAS has just two (2) free online options but they are very good and fairly comprehensive.
Staff/ Resources: Cannot find any in the job market.
Tech Support: Disappointing, on par with Business Objects apparently. SAS were mostly good. Tableau looks alright thus far.
Software usability: users going very well with Tableau. Generally dislike Microstrategy, this is the non Desktop reporting version though.
Bugs /Shortcomings: I have a vendor consultant spending most of his time spent on making the software do what it is supposed to do/ investigating software issues/ workarounds. One year on Office add-in.. To be fair that does have environmental aspects but if they had some clearer documentation on ports used, protocols, etc that would have helped. .
Enterprise Manager: this is something that helps with reporting on usage. It has alot of prebuilt reports. But there are no clear definitions of the columns. There are also in some hardcoded URL links, with ASP references. We use Unix. Makes the prebuilt reporting useless. As was recommended by the vendor, best to make your own reports.
Consultant level of training/ knowledge: Upgrade from version 9 to 10. Quoted 1 month. Gave up after 3 months. Work done by vendor consultants. Do feel sorry for them but . .
Lack of security reporting, auditing capability. SAS has some options there that are ok.
Pricing model is clearer than earlier but making it hard to make it transparent on exact costings for items, based on varies levels of discounts.
Two types of releases, Platform and Foundation release. Foundation release is supported for just 6 months. . I hope that changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting data out of a complex system to the users. Which they download from Microstrategy, into Tableau or Excel or a database.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The sales people will say it can do everything that Tableau can. Remain doubtful.
If looking for other Enterprise options, not sure about Tableau, but for a metadata/ data lineage/ Data Governance approach SAS is ok I found. Will need some skilled people with the initial setup though.
If looking for other Enterprise options, not sure about Tableau, but for a metadata/ data lineage/ Data Governance approach SAS is ok I found. Will need some skilled people with the initial setup though.
Quick to Market - Difficult to Maintain or Enhance
What do you like best about the product?
Can quickly build and deploy basic reports and dashboards.
Powerful and extensible when it works.
Powerful and extensible when it works.
What do you dislike about the product?
Very buggy. Much functionality does not work as advertised or requires significant amount of work around
Patching replaced by quarterly upgrade cycle
Upgrades take 3-6 weeks.
Prime does not live up to the marketing. Scalability of in-memory analytics does not live up to marketing.
In-memory cubes do not scale well to larger data sets
Rigid presentation layer for organizing cubed attributes
Memory leak found in in-memory cubes, only solution provided by support was to upgrade platform
Top tier support provides no solutions, serves more as an entry point to their paid professional services
Lack of Continuous Integration
Automated Deployments not fully baked out
Very difficult to customize - SDK is difficult to work with and documentation is insufficient to support
No adaptive-responsive views
Patching replaced by quarterly upgrade cycle
Upgrades take 3-6 weeks.
Prime does not live up to the marketing. Scalability of in-memory analytics does not live up to marketing.
In-memory cubes do not scale well to larger data sets
Rigid presentation layer for organizing cubed attributes
Memory leak found in in-memory cubes, only solution provided by support was to upgrade platform
Top tier support provides no solutions, serves more as an entry point to their paid professional services
Lack of Continuous Integration
Automated Deployments not fully baked out
Very difficult to customize - SDK is difficult to work with and documentation is insufficient to support
No adaptive-responsive views
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
procurement cost analysis and vendor contract management for health care systems/hospitals
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Avoid.
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