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The PhotoShop of BI - customizable to a fault
What do you like best about the product?
Extremely customizable, so any problem your customers describe can be turned into a solution. There are a lot of built-in visualizations, and the plugin to ESRI and R-Server is fantastic.
What do you dislike about the product?
Extremely complicated to learn, and even harder to master the architecture. If you mistakenly architect the system incorrectly it can take forever to understand the problem and correct it. Additionally, there's no effective way of source controlling changest to the system.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Giving our business analysts a drag-and-drop tool to analyze data as well as easily visualize in ways Excel can't.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
MicroStrategy is best implemented when you already have multiple employees with strong knowledge of the system, and access to consultants.
8 year user
What do you like best about the product?
Adaptability to various business scenarios and rich tool set all in one application
What do you dislike about the product?
The learning curve could be a bit steep
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Operational issues and analytics to review and forecast future results
I am the lead developer for a distributor of Microstrategy
What do you like best about the product?
Versatility. There has not been much that we have not been able to figure out how to do for our customers.
What do you dislike about the product?
Need more advanced options in the web interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we distribute Microstrategy to our customers for reporting needs
Great tool for in-depth analysis
What do you like best about the product?
The unified metadata concept and the scheduling functionality
What do you dislike about the product?
not upto date with newer analytical tools like sisense and tableau where user analytics is simplified
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
MicroStrategy was our Primary tool, however we made it secondary now and using it for scheduled jobs and freeform.
MicroStrategy is a scalable IT solution for centralized enterprise analytics
What do you like best about the product?
MSTR's underlying technology is best in class. The answer to "is [X] possible?" is always "yes". The dependency chain is unbreakable, which is really comforting from an architecture development standpoint. One of the pain points we had with Looker prior to switching to MSTR was that it didn't have a robust dependency chain (we did like using Git for version control though).
The SQL generation is also *very* readable, in contrast with many of MSTR's competitors.
The in-memory cubes are powerful - 2B row limit per CPU. We used these cubes to build some otherwise prohibitively large dynamic dashboards.
The SQL generation is also *very* readable, in contrast with many of MSTR's competitors.
The in-memory cubes are powerful - 2B row limit per CPU. We used these cubes to build some otherwise prohibitively large dynamic dashboards.
What do you dislike about the product?
UI, support, stability. Support is predicated on a vast knowledge of MSTR's intricacy's, including deep logging features which do not feel Cloud-worthy. Cloud is clearly a new philosophy for them. Professional services is hit or miss.
The "managed service" aspect of the Cloud product still relies on a deep understanding of the platform and its nuances and jargon.
The "managed service" aspect of the Cloud product still relies on a deep understanding of the platform and its nuances and jargon.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Self-service access to complex data that would be otherwise inscrutable to business teams. We've found numerous asymmetrical opportunities to improve our business.
We've also productionized large chunks of our client-facing work - the dashboards help us find the fires and put them out, find the smoke where there might be more fires, and find the successes we might have otherwise missed.
We've also productionized large chunks of our client-facing work - the dashboards help us find the fires and put them out, find the smoke where there might be more fires, and find the successes we might have otherwise missed.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If starting from scratch, be sure to include nimble, scalable data sources such as Snowflake or BigQuery
MicroStrategy VI makes it relevant
What do you like best about the product?
I like the Visual Insight piece as it allows for quick attractive dashboard creation and lends itself easily to self service analytics. This allows for easy drilling and drag and drop analysis. This is the ideal solution for data discovery and exploration. Its attractive and if you prepare tables appropriately the cubes can be created in less than a minute. Cubes are in memory, so allow very fast interaction with the data subverting the need to ping your SQL server each time you change a filter. You still have the option to run live or schedule in memory cubes to refresh at any interval. If done right document are some of the most attractive dashboards I have seen, The convenience of an online tool is also fantastic.
What do you dislike about the product?
The documents piece has an incredibly steep learning curve. Many features are not intuitive and there are inconsistencies in the features like some tools allow prompts where others do not. Navigation and menus are a bit clunky in tools other than VI. In all tools it can be incredibly difficult to modify or edit a specific part of a graph. Also some of how the various tools interact is clunky and inconsistent. There are many bugs, inconsistent and unexpected occurrences at random and not a lot of training material. The official MSTR training courses through the PEP licensing is usually good but I have had terrible experiences with in person trainers from errors in the manual to instructors not knowing seemingly basic stuff.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We have financial data that we are trying to display in a format that makes it simple for users to know the most pertinent information at a glance but to also have the option to dig into the data if desired. We need a central location for all users to go for reporting and allow self service so we don't need to rebuild for each minor change desired.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Every new release focuses on Visual Insight. This means that the product is getting better. This portion of the tool makes MSTR valuable. Its relatively intuitive and allows for great self service options. Its not the easiest tool to use but it is robust. Of the 7 BI tools I have used MSTR's VI is among the best. The other tools are difficult and cumbersome but very attractive if you have the time and skills. Although the price tag is high this is an enterprise level tool and is effective at what it does. The quirks and bugs make me crazy every tool comes with its baggage and you have to hope that they are resolved in the next release.
A tool that is very dynamic to support enterprise level reports and dashboards.
What do you like best about the product?
Creating reports with advanced metrics, schema designing architecture features.
What do you dislike about the product?
Visualizations, very limited charts and graphs, too many bug fixes
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sales reporting, customer insights
Great Enterprise BI Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Mobile and huge database query performace
What do you dislike about the product?
Visual Insights, support team, Many defects in version releases
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Building reports,dashboards across many data sources. Users job became easier and also helps them analyze data for the business.
MicroStrategy 10
What do you like best about the product?
One of best Business Intelligence enterprise reporting tool, which has loads of rich features available to the business user on the web and PDA, with ease of use, and advanced analysis in a single end-to-end solution.
The MicroStrategy Desktop can read majority data source, from the simplest flat files to most complex databases and online data sets, so data from all sources is available in one place. The visual interface lets business users quickly blend and analyze all their data.
The MicroStrategy Desktop can read majority data source, from the simplest flat files to most complex databases and online data sets, so data from all sources is available in one place. The visual interface lets business users quickly blend and analyze all their data.
What do you dislike about the product?
The function that should boost business productivity and efficiency
- Enable to optimize business rules
- Make better collaborative decisions.
- Advanced analytics
- Enable to optimize business rules
- Make better collaborative decisions.
- Advanced analytics
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Global operational delivery performance indicators that capture between the factories and stores, business users will access the visualization dashboards to get an insight into their portfolio/accounts and be better informed about their status and possible opportunities.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Recommendations for consideration:
- Reusable and Rich Metadata Layer
- Market Proven Enterprise Scalability and Performance
- Dynamic Report Personalization
- Centralized Enterprise Administration
- Flexible and Powerful OLAP Analysis
- Heterogeneous Data Source Access
In a case still, on the old version, don't wait.Upgrade to the latest version.
- Reusable and Rich Metadata Layer
- Market Proven Enterprise Scalability and Performance
- Dynamic Report Personalization
- Centralized Enterprise Administration
- Flexible and Powerful OLAP Analysis
- Heterogeneous Data Source Access
In a case still, on the old version, don't wait.Upgrade to the latest version.
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!
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