MicroStrategy Reviews

I would like to see enhanced features in the dashboards. This would enhance the solution in the future, and is currently missing.

One to three years.

It is reliable.

We have not contacted the tech support team. 

I was not involved with the initial setup.

When selecting a vendor, we consider all of the necessary requirements, and how it can incorporate the current data.

I was not involved in choosing this solution.

I really value that MicroStrategy is a complete suite built to enable organizations to quickly deploy sophisticated analytical and security applications. It has a very good balance between features, usability, and pricing options.

It enables you to build decision support systems. MicroStrategy has improved the decision-making process through Enterprise Reports with automated and corporate information management.

Analysis self-service could be improved.

I have used this product for six years.

I did not encounter any stability issues. There were just some minor bugs that were fixed by the manufacturer in their regular patches.

I did not encounter any scalability issues. This is one of its strengths.

Technical support was good.

The initial setup was straightforward and very easy.

If you really need these features, it is an excellent product with a very good price. Sometimes you do not need much functionality and then other alternatives at a lower price might be a better option.

In our company, we help our clients identify the option that best suits their needs. We then develop/implement the data warehouse, ETL process, data integration, and visualizations.

Keep in mind your global and corporate design. It is best to start with a specific, small, and well-defined area.

1. Synchronized drilling
2. Custom display forms for selectors
3. Export a single report in a dashboard
4. Dynamic metric alias
5. Filter panel

I think it shall be very helpful if the future versions allow much more customization following a simpler procedure

I think it would be very helpful if the future versions allow much more customization and simplify this procedure.

The customisation was difficult.

There was no issue with the stability.

There was no issue with the scalability.

My advice would be that it's a great product especially for reporting but you should also keep in mind that in the end it is still a product and it can't replicate all that can be achieved through a code or a full fledged database.

Dashboard, Visual Insights, Mobile BI

More interactive in terms of visualization. Gets rid of old transactional reports and Grid reports.

Long way to go to explore complete suite.

4 years

No

Customer Service: 4 out of 5Technical Support: 2 out of 5

None

200%

I think the total cost of ownership is lower than other products, it is flexible and enterprise class.

The licenses model is complicated. New features are slow to get to market (in comparison to other niche tools).

Our primary use case for MicroStrategy is reporting, including sales, marketing, operational, and financial. We use it for all of our lines of business. 

The tool I find the most valuable is MicroStrategy Architect. I use it for schematic modeling. It is scalable and integration-friendly. 

MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau. 

I would personally like to see more narrowcast features. 

I have been using MicroStrategy for six years. 

The initial setup was complex because of the nature of the product. It has multiple components. It takes 12 hours to deploy. 

On-premises

We have insurance customers, health customers, in our organization. The performance is good.

The reporting, the dashboards, and the new visualization functions. It is very easy for users to understand their data and dashboards. The dashboards which we are using in our enterprise, they're very helpful in realizing business opportunities for us.

The Dossier functionality. We are on 10.4, but we have a sandbox for 10.10 and we are planning to upgrade to 10.10 next week.

We are planning to roll out self-service to business teams, but we are still working on that. We want to deploy a self-service solution to them but we have not done so yet.

For 2018, we want to use Dossier and visualizations. We have a new Vitara visualization chart. We are now planning to buy Vitara visualizations and we'll be using that.

I can't think of anything at the moment.

More than five years.

Enterprise is very stable. I've been with MicroStrategy from more than 12 years. The performance and the stability has been increasing. It is the best solution for enterprise BI platform.

We haven't faced the issue of scalability.

I like them. They have very good technical support.

We were using SSRS and we converted that, and SAS as well.

We switched because it is a stable platform and we know the good features in MicroStrategy. We have moved more and more of the reporting solutions to MicroStrategy. We still have some SSRS reports, but by the end of this year we are planning to move everything to MicroStrategy.

It is straightforward because I have been working with it for 12 years. So it's easy for me.

Maybe for newcomers it might be a little bit difficult, but they can easily see release notes or get some technical support. They can easily implement the solution. It's not that tough.

In terms of having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy, versus a many-points solution, we are planning to use it like that. We had different reporting solutions, but we are moving everything to a single MicroStrategy BI platform.

We haven't invested in the mobile platform. We want to invest, but the problem is the security. We are in the health domain, so we have PHI data. We have some challenges, so most probably this later year or at the start of 2019 we may be able to get the mobile solution.

When choosing a vendor, the major thing I look for is the technical support; how reachable they are. And stability as well.

I definitely recommend MicroStrategy. Install MicroStrategy and use it for reporting, the dashboards, and self-service. You can use it as a centralized BI platform.

Highly scalable: It is not a bottleneck for leveraging a high-capacity analytical database.

Users can now consolidate data from across the business without reaching boundaries of cubes.

Even though self-service capabilities have been greatly improved, the basic reporting layout is still behind similar products.

I have used it for 18 years.

We have only encountered minor issues from time to time.

Scalability is excellent.

Technical support has been similar to other vendors.

We have not previously used a different solution.

There is a lot of setup to perform, so initial training is important.

Consider CPU-based licenses, if you have a large user population with highly varying reporting needs.

I do not recall whether we evaluated other options before choosing this solution.

The core of your data source (data warehouse) should be star schema, preferably starflake. Then you can attach other data sources around that.