It looks like you're running into problems that Cognos has always had. First, Cognos' MOLAP arcitecture is not very scalable which results in a multitude of hard-to-manage cubes. Second, Cognos has been built through acquisitions, resulting in metadata integration issues. As…

Check out MicroStrategy's Analytics Enterprise. It has connectors to multi-dimensional cubes and you can download it for a free 30-day evaluation. This is the full enterprise edition, so you have all the power of a myriad of ways to visualize and display your data. Here's…

MicroStrategy has recently posted their pricing for each of their four product offerings (Web, Mobile, Architect and Server)

Russell Sorry, I'm a MicroStrategy guy and I don't know Tableau or SAP except from what I've read in industry literature (esp. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise BI). BTW, I'll be talking with one of ITCentral's analysts about MicroStrategy tomorrow. If you're…

I've been looking at these tools for a lot of years from the perspective of an end user analyst. I think that the best, all-round solution is MicroStrategy. MicroStrategy has focused on end user enablement and for a number of years now has offered true solution development…

My experience with MicroStrategy pricing is that there is no MSRP and to get pricing you need to get closer to the decision to purchase. However, license cost is a misleading metric. Look at Gartner's Magic Quadrant and see what it says about TCO, and the components of…

I've followed MicroStrategy for nearly 20 years as an intelligence analysis system integrator for the Federal government. As an analyst, a major strength of MicroStrategy is that when I pull an analytical thread and start to follow it I don't have to worry about falling…