MicroStrategy Review

The MicroStrategy platform offers a complete set of business intelligence and analytics capabilities that enable organizations of any size or maturity to get value from their business data. Organizations use MicroStrategy to build and deploy analytical and data discovery applications in the form of personalized reports, real-time dashboards, pixel-perfect documents, mobile applications, and more. MicroStrategy also brings organizations HyperIntelligence®, the first ever tool that brings insights to employees in zero-clicks. Product Highlights: - HyperIntelligence: MicroStrategy’s new technology, HyperIntelligence, delivers insights in seconds and zero clicks. HyperIntelligence makes your employees faster and smarter by embedding analytics, suggestions, and actions directly into the applications they use every day. Accelerate your insights and actions by 100x, making your business users not just hyper-intelligent but hyper-productive. - Visualizations, charts, and graphs for data discovery: MicroStrategy comes with a large, flexible, and easily extensible library of interactive graphs, advanced visualizations, and maps that make it easy to understand and interpret information. - Pixel-perfect reports and dashboards: With MicroStrategy organizations can create personalized dashboards and reports for every employee and deploy them via web, desktop, tablet, or smartphone. MicroStrategy offers real-time analytics, custom branding, automated distribution and delivery, and enables companies to embed dashboards into custom portals or other business applications. - Heterogenous data access: MicroStrategy offers native connectors and drivers to hundreds of data sources that include personal spreadsheets, relational databases, cloud applications like Salesforce, MDX sources, and many more. Users can easily blend and consume data from across any of these sources without enlisting the help of IT. - Data preparation: Our native data wrangling feature empowers business users to reformat and modify their data with an extensive set of parsing and data preparation capabilities. - Predictive analytics and R models: MicroStrategy provides an extensive library of native analytical functions and scoring algorithms, alongside the ability to integrate with 3rd-party and open-source statistical and data mining products like R, SPSS, and SAS. - Mobile analytics: MicroStrategy lets you instantly deploy mobile BI to your favorite mobile device. Mobilize your workforce with transaction enabled apps, offline access, and customizable workflows that can be built into mobile productivity apps for iOS and Android. The MicroStrategy platform is made up of five component products: - Desktop: A free, single-user data discovery tool that lets users quickly connect to, explore, and visualize data on either Mac or PC. - Web: A highly interactive, browser-based interface that allows business users to design, consume, and analyze reports and dashboards. - Mobile: A native app for iOS and Android that allows users to access analytics and mobile BI apps from any mobile device. - Architect: A set of development and migration tools that allow IT to architect data models, automate processes, and manage MicroStrategy applications. - Server: A fully-featured server infrastructure designed to support all styles of analytics, scale to hundreds of thousands of users, and offer sub-second performance.