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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.
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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!
Long term Microstrategy and BI solutions user
What do you like best about the product?
I like MicroStrategy's simplicity to create complex multi pass SQL reports, visualisations over varied datasets, the breath of areas in which the product can be used. I currently work within insurance typically a very complex data environment with strict data governance controls we have adapted our MicroStrategy installation to cope with the agile demands of data discovery whilst also accommodating change control and data governance.
I also like MicroStrategy's ability to stay abreast of upcoming opportunities within the BI arena, specifically the introduction of mobile functionality, system manager to automate report production MicroStrategy office, R support and the list goes on.
I also like MicroStrategy's ability to stay abreast of upcoming opportunities within the BI arena, specifically the introduction of mobile functionality, system manager to automate report production MicroStrategy office, R support and the list goes on.
What do you dislike about the product?
With all BI tools there is unfortunately a period of setup and learning required, I believe that MicroStrategy make this more onerous than most other providers. Perhaps MicroStrategy could benefit from opening up the learning material on it's product functionality to allow technical users of the product become more familiar and help out on typical problems encountered in real life situations through social media shares.
I look forward to licencing and product registration changes in MicroStrategy 10 as these would have been described as complex and confusing in previous versions. I feel that MicroStrategy support in Europe (Ireland) is perhaps not as comprehensive as it would be in the US, let downs include learning experience, product support, fault fixing and specific installation recommendations.
I look forward to licencing and product registration changes in MicroStrategy 10 as these would have been described as complex and confusing in previous versions. I feel that MicroStrategy support in Europe (Ireland) is perhaps not as comprehensive as it would be in the US, let downs include learning experience, product support, fault fixing and specific installation recommendations.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Over the past year our Analytics team have been working on report automation using ETL tools, Stored Procedures and of course MicroStrategy. MicroStrategy has been key in delivering effort savings of 30+ man hours per week for business as usual reporting. Some of the product that have proved most beneficial in completing this type of project include online interactive documents/dashboards replacing manual office based packs and also MicroStrategy Office for those hard to convince users.
We have also plans to ramp up our usage of predictive analytics over the coming year and MicroStrategy's ability to use R models will assist in delivering real time analysis on everything from Customer Renewal Propensity, Cancellation prophylaxis and Dynamic pricing.
We have also plans to ramp up our usage of predictive analytics over the coming year and MicroStrategy's ability to use R models will assist in delivering real time analysis on everything from Customer Renewal Propensity, Cancellation prophylaxis and Dynamic pricing.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend to users who have little experience in more technical product offerings yes.
efficient Multidimentional analysis
What do you like best about the product?
security distribution in the platform and the range of accessibility that is offered in this tool, web, desktop and cloud , mobile.
What do you dislike about the product?
when upgrading from one version to an other and too many component to maintain at the admin level.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
reporting and analyzing our data in different angles, it is a lot easier to make manipulation to our data then doing it at the source level allowing us to do a lot of benchmark analysis which helping the business to move forward.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
get all the hot fixed each time you upgrade.
Enterprise-wide robust and reliable BI software
What do you like best about the product?
Very robust and stable
Multiple data sources
Ease of utilization by end-users
Responsive and professional Technical Support engineers
Multiple data sources
Ease of utilization by end-users
Responsive and professional Technical Support engineers
What do you dislike about the product?
documentation is sometimes very generic, although the community usually answers to specific issues not addressed in the documentation
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reporting, One version of the truth Ease and speed of deployment
Recommendations to others considering the product:
take all training available
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.
Easy to use, excellent results
What do you like best about the product?
The ease-of use and how powerful it is to generate any kind of reports without spending endless days programming like in other tools. It has helped our company to reposition at the highest levels of the retail industry by helping store managers to access data in a more friendly way
What do you dislike about the product?
Performance is not the best feature, you have to work extensively building a proper data model and afterwards it is not easy to adjust it to the dynamics of the business.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Store management, fast access to data, flexibility, easy-to-use environments.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you go live try to do it over an Oracle Database. Results improved.
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