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I have been using MicroStrategy for last 10 years
What do you like best about the product?
I may refer to a friend depends on what they are looking for.
What do you dislike about the product?
UI, web is still far behind. UI is not fluid.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves basic reporting requirement, but UI and adhoc functionality is very poor.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
MicroStrategy need to improve on UI and ease of use.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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