MicroStrategy Usher Reviews

We primarily use the solution to deploy financial software.

The storage is the solution's most valuable feature.

Overall, the solution is an easy product to use.

The user interface needs improvement. It needs to be more intuitive.

The solution needs to enhance its integration servers.

The requirements needed to deploy the solution could be improved.

I've been using the solution for six months.

The solution is stable.

It depends, but mostly the solution is scalable. Right now, we have 20-25 users on the solution. We occasionally use the product but do plan to increase usage in the future.

Technical support has been good. So far, we're satisfied with their level of service.

We didn't previously use a different solution.

The initial setup was easy. To deploy the solution takes a week or less.

I handled the implementation myself.

We didn't evaluate other solutions before choosing this solution.

We use the cloud deployment model and use both Microsoft as well as AWS as providers.

I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.

The hyper-intelligence is the solution's most valuable feature.

The dashboard is user-friendly.

Users don't have to log in to the system to see the reports. That's a very good advantage of the solution.

In the dossier section, they have something called documents, which is very good, but they are implementing something called dossiers also. If we compare it with the BI tools like Tableau, the canvas which MicroStrategy provides is not that great. The formatting options are limited is dossiers. In terms of formatting and making the reports more presentable, it's lagging a little bit behind.

I believe in a future release they already have scheduled hyper-voice and hyper-screen features. It will be very good when these are added to the solution.

I've been using the solution for four months.

The solution is stable.

The solution is scalable.

Technical support is very good. We're satisfied with the level of assistance.

We are using Power BI as well, but MicroStrategy is implemented at the enterprise level. Which solution we use depends on the project requirements.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We handled the implementation ourselves.

We're using the cloud deployment model.

I very strongly recommend the solution. I'd rate nine out of ten.

• Transaction Services: Allows users to write back to the data source.
• Distribution Services: Enables distribution of reports, documents, and dashboards using different options.
• Metadata: Object reuse.
• Security: Granular, row-level data security.
• Office add-on.
• Software development kit (SDK): Allows app customization.

• Enterprise reporting through the entire organization.
• Sharing same data among the users.
• Single version of the truth.

Visual Insight/Desktop: It is trailing behind competitors such as Tableau or QlikView, which have more functionality.

The Developer app could get some UI enhancements.

I have used it for about six years.

• Old versions like 9.00 had several issues with metadata.
• Version 9.4/9.5 was stable.
• Version 10 is pretty much stable.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical Support is average, 7/10. It depends what kind of issue you are facing.

We were using legacy apps with really little opportunity to perform data analytics.

MicroStrategy (Enterprise): It takes some time to setup the metadata (mapping tables and creating the objects). Once you have this in place, it’s really nice to start working on reports and dashboards. Overall, I’d say it’s straightforward.

MicroStrategy has improved the way they license the modules, but I still consider it expensive.

Before choosing this product, we evaluated IBM Cognos, Oracle, and SAP BO.

If you are looking for an enterprise BI app, MicroStrategy includes:

• Data discovery
• Analytics
• Enterprise reporting
• Dashboards
• Distribution
• Mobile
• Central administration
• Granular security
• Single repository (metadata)
• Modelling
• Automation (scripts)
• Testing

All you need in one enterprise app.