MicroStrategy Benefits
it_user156600
Systems Analyst at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Management would spend half a week gathering data and number crunching in Excel. It was a long, slow and tedious process. In the end they could not calculate at the level of detail required. Today, management can focus on analyzing the numbers and also exploring other avenues of improvement using the self-serve features.
One example is reviewing actual route performance versus the expected performance. The result is better identification of problem routes and measurement of changes.
it_user69156
BI Expert at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
This product certainly has helped in various ways in all my past client implementations, be it simple on-schedule, automatic report delivery or self-service data exploration using Visual Insight.
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Evgeny Gryazov
Data Analysis and Visualization BI Team Leader at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It is first full BI solution in our company, desighnted and administrated by BI department wo internal companyes
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it_user514302
Sr. MicroStrategy Consultant at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Data Visualization helps the company's C-level people to make decisions regarding their business, both small scale and large scale.
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SeniorMgr45645
Senior Manager of Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
All the business units rely on the information provided by MicroStrategy for their decisions on daily basis. This increases data accuracy and saves time to build reports.
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VP of Customer Experience at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees
The main transformations came in the form of mobility, security and self-service.
Smaller benefits came, for instance, from the disappearance of point-in-time presentations for board members with Office integration.
Publishing centralized reports allowed a consolidation of metrics and interdepartmental cooperation and efficiency.
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Brad Cutler
Enterprise Analytics Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has certainly given people the ability to ask more questions and get more answers. It has made them even hungrier for the data.
In 2018, we are eager to start the mobile platform, because we are going to create a sense of urgency in developing more tools, then just creating more reporting solutions.
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reviewer1178424
Vice President & CIO at a logistics company with 201-500 employees
It's an information delivery mechanism to pull all of our data into one central tool, allowing us to look at key metrics across the organization.
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Analyst 2 with 5,001-10,000 employees
I think one of the greatest things about MicroStrategy is their holistic approach to business intelligence. They don't put priority on one component of report development over document development, over administrative functionality, and security. I think they have a very holistic application.
They offer us a lot of out-of-the-box tools, which give us the ability to automate a lot of our administrative tasks. Some things become menial: user creation, restarting a server at 10 o'clock on a Friday - simple things that they really give you the tools to be able to do. That's one thing I really like about the MicroStrategy platform from an administrative perspective.
Regarding our users, the insights that they can gain, how quickly they can gather information, has been a huge benefit for us from MicroStrategy.
it_user514329
Managing Partner and Sr. MicroStrategy Enterprise Solution SME at a tech company
In the past, our sales VP and directors will bring their laptop loaded with Excel sheets whenever they meet with their clients, but that has now been replaced with an iPad using the MicroStrategy Mobile solution. The BI application now is able to provide the analytics and visualizations required to empower our VPs and directors to make informed decisions in real time with their clients. The application has also helped identify the weak links within the sales structure.
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Manager at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Truly provides a single version of the truth. Once you create a metric or report that is correct, it is always correct, no matter where it is deployed. When a company I used to work for first rolled out MicroStrategy, there was a lot of suspicion by the existing DBAs and the traditional SQL report developers about the system’s results. If a report would show incorrect results one month, there was a lot of finger-pointing at MicroStrategy and ‘AHA!’s. In every case, the MicroStrategy team was able to prove that the error was due to incorrect data in the database.
Over time, the MicroStrategy system grew to be the ‘system of record’ and used to validate data loads for other systems.
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Senior Director, BI Architecture at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have deployed multiple BI solutions using Microstrategy, ranging from standard reports to dashboards to ad hoc analytics.
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it_user238434
Senior Manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Quick time to market of analytical solutions
- In-depth, user-friendly business analysis
it_user512088
MicroStrategy Product Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have created some transaction services reports that allow the field to comment on issues that the c-level might have questions on. This in turn creates a very open and productive environment.
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Engineering Senior at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
With MicroStrategy, organizations can allow their end-users to create their own ad-hoc reports/dashboards/visualizations, which greatly reduces their dependence on a dedicated development team. While a development team is still necessary for designing the schema and long-term solutions, this product reduces the burden on developers by empowering end-users to be self-sufficient.
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Data Visalization Architect at MSD
End users are able to work more on their own, so it lowers the cost of BI department.
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BI Analyst Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Definitely in the past, when we had so many legacy systems, with Cognos and others, it was took multiple steps to get what we wanted. We used to extract data from Cognos, pointing to any database, load the data into Access databases, and then some BA or system analyst used to create reporting out of it.
But now, it's a seamless integration. We can connect directly, in the form of In-Memory Cubes or live-publish cubes, to the data warehouse, and blend in the data with big data. Not only relational databases, but we can also integrate other third-party files, and create a single-source software. So, from that perspective, especially in personal insurance, it keeps BI, business intelligence, in the hands of everyone, rather than a developer or an analyst. Now mostly everyone in our area, the travelers, they have self-service.
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reviewer993717
Director Departamento Data Analitics at a wellness & fitness company with 1,001-5,000 employees
With the MicroStrategy reports, we got the directors of each hospital and each department to have daily information on the status of each center, with the time evolution, to make decisions based on real data and take corrective measures against trends in activity or billing, analyzing niches of activity or specialties that show seasonality.
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Platform Data Visualization Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
The truth is that this is not about business impact, such as high reliability. This is something that can be perceived, but other features are more compelling, like visualizations, which have a possibility of utilization around mobile devices with great GUI. Those stories, which are built for them, are something that they can really utilize.
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Senior Management- Project at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
MicroStrategy is one of our key tool sets which we are focusing on for 2018 and beyond. It has the potential to become a great evangelist for AI and other embedded analytics. For more futuristic design solutions, our organization as such, is focusing on this area in terms of artificial intelligence and analytics. MicroStrategy, so far, has based on their product roadmap to fit squarely to match the design that we have.
The single stack solution will always be more profitable, scalable, and elastic for organizational needs.
In 2018, we will be focusing a lot on artificial intelligence and analytics. Embedded analytics will be another key area that we will be focusing on, therefore we will be looking to see how the SDK shapes up and the road map for cloud implementation. This is the next major push that we see. The ease of upgrades and mobile analytics are also other key areas that we will be focusing on.
it_user807339
Senior Applications Developer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
What we are trying to do is eliminate the need for them to actually do anything Self-Service. We are trying to establish interface agreements so we no longer have to deliver Excel files, and things will just be there when they need it.
For example: They tell us what we need. We put it in the batch. It gets put to them right when they need it, right where they need it, then they can just process it. Therefore, we can automate everything.
In 2018, we are going to be using the pretty charts and graphs. What I want to do is move us more towards using machine learning artificial intelligent type capabilities in order to process all our data. It is a 100 terabyte database. You can't just aggregate everything up to a day or a month and say you understand everything. We are going to have to have some automated features. Therefore, we can actually parse the data and do some doppelganger analysis, then we can get some of our things solved.
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Technical Specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
From my experience, I see that it is definitely more useful for businesses to make effective decisions from the data used. One example I can recall is in healthcare, where it helps businesses to see hospital/facility level inflow/outflow information on a mobile device in real time fashion, and make decisions accordingly to improve the business.
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Strategic Services Executive at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In my particular area, it has actually enhanced it greatly. It has enabled us to get data to the customers, then have them turn around and create these reports in minutes rather than hours.
We have, to varying degrees, rolled out Self-Service and some of it is more IT driven on the properties. Other times it is more custom reporting done by us. They have it as a feature there. They can use it to the best of their abilities, but a lot of times they will bring us in to do all the custom stuff.
In 2018, we will be using the capabilities of Dossiers more. We are not yet looking at investing in mobile analytics, because we are trying to do something in-house.
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Director Of Healthcare Economics at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Getting more data to people more quickly. Providing more flexibility for how they use the data, so speed up the time and flexibility in how they are getting to use the data.
We primarily use it to support more internal departments. Those are our customers. We have different areas which we support from a healthcare data standpoint. The plan is to enable them to use the data, so we would use some configuration and setup, but then the customers would go in and look at the reports that we have set up or be able to do ad hoc stuff based on those data sets which we have built.
it_user262917
Retail Solutions Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Our customers and their users have used our product to:
- Find theft
- Reduce product waste
- Increase profits
- Make better staffing plans
- Improve store and staff performance measures.
The examples are numerous, so I’ve attached a couple of articles and included a link to our website. http://www.pinncorp.com/soluti...
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Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Our Finance team has to send alert emails to stakeholders for the open due balance during the first week of every month. The details include the bank account details for transfers, invoice details, and the repo rate.
This used to be done manually. MicroStrategy’s Distribution services became a game changer for us. We send around 1000 emails in 10 minutes. It also provides a mechanism to track the delivery of emails and notify the administrator in case of failure.
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Director of BI / Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
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SeniorMa2b70
Senior Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
It helps all the store managers and supply chain people to obtain a view of the data and plan the next week, the next month, quarters, and so on.
We are still learning on our journey of how to roll out Visual Insights to all the business users and how much data input capability should be given to them.
In 2018, we plan on using Visual Insights heavily.
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Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product has enabled the organization to blend data from different business units of the organization and product reports on it.
It has also replaced the manual process of sending out reports in an Excel sheet every Monday to specified users.
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Head of Data Analytics at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We automatize daily management reporting, ad hoc reporting, and schedule reporting with fix structure
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Analytics Technical Officer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
The goal is for all of our underwriters to see the risk of a property the same way. If I have 30 underwriters, they should all see and measure the same risk. With all of our modeling, we create a lot data. But with these dashboards, we're giving the same direction. So, underwriters are coming to the same risk conclusions on all of our risks.
it_user807330
Staff Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It has helped our modern developers. It has helped the business users to design their own reports. They know exactly what the need, so the power is now in their hands. They do self-service and develop their reports. Dependency on development teams, as well as managing the platform, has reduced a lot with Visual Insight.
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Senior BI Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It did not really change the way the organization works. But it has improved our budgeting process. It also gives us a better overview of our warehouse management.
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Business Development Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
- As a consulting firm: delivering BI solutions to customers effectively and efficiently at an enterprise level
it_user516102
Manager - BI and Analytics with 501-1,000 employees
- Management's ability to slice and dice data quickly with ease
it_user512919
Microstrategy Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
Enterprise-wise solutioning helps us to troubleshoot more effectively.
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Owner/Principal at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
With MicroStrategy's focus on end user empowerment, a business analyst can make any modifications needed to follow wherever their analytical thought process leads them. With a multi-dimensional cube solution (Cognos, for example), if the analyst falls into the "white space" between cubes he/she needs to stop and request a new cube from the IT shop, interrupting the analytical thought process, possibly for a significant amount of time.
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it_user807408
Product Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We are a data-driven company, so a lot of decisions happen out of data at every level. Most of our tactical decisions are data-driven, our strategic decisions are definitely data-driven. MicroStrategy is now the de facto tool within the organization, it's the go-to BI tool in the organization.
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SalesPer1336
Sales Performance Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
It drives us away from Excel. For what it is for, it is good. You can't run a business on Excel.
Some things are easier, some things are harder. A lot of things are easier.
We have some self-service reports and some of those went really well. It depends on the level. When you get to the executive level, they do not want to go out and run a dashboard. They love dashboards, but they don't want to run them. They want someone to send it to them and that does not work well for MicroStrategy. If I am going to run it and send it to you, I did not need MicroStrategy to do it.
We will probably shift away from mobile because we are doing away with iPads. We have tablets or convertible computers, so there is no need to use mobile on those.
it_user519399
Freelance MicroStrategy Expert, MicroStrategy Master at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
The ability to investigate high-level data in cubes and once an issue is found, you can directly drill to the row-level data within the same platform. No coding or integration is needed between different tools. It is all done within the same platform, using the same objects, which allows the best of both worlds, especially while working on large-scale projects (big data).
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Solution Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Most of our SaaS products are analytic in nature and against TBs of data with users accessing a broad array of standard reports, guided ad-hoc queries, data exploration, and dashboards. For our high volume (both data and users), MicroStrategy continues to be the backbone of these SaaS solutions.
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System Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Management can see how the business is going, financial stuff and analyze all sales processes. It is possible to build advanced beautiful reports, decorated with different graphs, charts, which is so liked by management, though this beauty can be infinitely improved, especially in mobile apps. Also, we can present analytics in dashboards, combine elements in a document, animate them, visualize them and more.
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Partha-DWBI Analytics Expert
Principal Co-founder at Enterprise BIDI Solutions
- Enterprise wide reporting capability.
- Self-service reporting & analysis.
- Extensive analysis of business units function: It provides various metrics and by using drill through and drill across functionality.
- Ease of understanding of various performance measures using widget features.
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SenApp3210
Senior Application Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has allowed us to standardize the reporting so that everybody is looking at the same view of the data.
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Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
If you provide the necessary data to make decisions in a timely and visually stimulating way, then you can make better decisions. It profoundly impacts the organization.
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Software Development Management
We cannot measure in terms of values or pounds. However, it definitely impacts people, who are excited to use it.
We are looking forward to distributing personalized alerts to our users using the native mobile push notification systems. We will also eventually configure our mobile apps to work offline.
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Senior BI Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The security filters concept was very useful for our requirements. It was like we had to use same database tables (backend) and report structure (frontend) for different countries but each country should not see the others’ data. In this case, we can apply security filters in the web environment to the user groups specific to the country.
Data blending is also a good feature. With this, you can insert objects from more than one dataset in a single grid or graph in the dashboard. This allows users to create their own custom dashboards from multiple datasets.
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Program Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
With this, we have been able to provide consistent reporting with ease, after the efforts put in the initial schema setup.
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Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The product enables our business to create thousands of reports without knowing anything about the backend. MicroStrategy has been an enterprise reporting tool at our organization for a very long time. From the very beginning, the ability of the tool to provide a drag and drop interface to end users to create reports using the enterprise data warehouse effortlessly helps them in taking strategic decisions in their day-to-day operation.
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MicroStrategy BI Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
In all of the projects for various clients I have worked for, MicroStrategy has improved their functions, as it automates publishing for reports, addresses security, replaces multiple legacy systems with one central system, reduces the maintenance, provides better analytical power to users by letting them slice, dice and drill into the data. The tool provides one of the best pixel-perfect dashboards in the industry, appealing and pleasing to eyes.
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ProjectMan37583
Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
With the advent of the partitioning concept in Cube partitioning, predictive analysis with visualizations, our organization is able to win back customers and customer appreciation.
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Technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
There have been actual direct bottomline impacts in terms of extra revenue created from the reporting solutions that I showed them how to do. Without getting into any details, I showed our marketing team how to go after more high value products that they could then push out, which resulted in more revenue. I showed another team how to identify other products that would otherwise be swept under the rug, and because they found these, they made an extra push and we got an extra X amount in revenue from a specific sale because of it. Therefore, it has had a direct impact on bottomline improvements.
The other win is a lot of productivity. I have shown our users how to stop using Excel. They would create these vast Excel files, and I showed them how to do the same thing with MicroStrategy, which saves a significant amount of time for them everyday.
These have been the two big impacts from MicroStrategy.
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Sr Staff BI Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
- * Reduced IT dependency. *
- Using template
- Users (Business Analyst) are using this canned report template for their reporting based on their info and save that report in their own folder. And they are using subscription to deliver that report to their stakeholder.
- Allowing user to create report from scratch. Train them what to use and what to not use. Once they familiar these then they don’t dependent on IT.
- Introducing the Dashboard; provide enough information in the dashboard. Once user started using those dashboard then they don’t dependent on IT.
- Now most of the request from users like below;
- - New metric (custom metric)
- - New filters (custom filter)
- - Complex reports where they can’t create by themselves.
it_user221904
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
MicroStrategy is using what they call a meta-database, where you store all your business logic and you can re-use it in any report or dashboard. This helped us a lot. You now have one version of the truth and it is re-usable. You don't need to build complex calculations in your Excel sheet, as we were doing in the past, with the risk that someone made a slight variation to the business rules.
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Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We tried one of the leading reporting/BI tools in the market, but was it was not scaleable for enterprise levels. MicroStrategy does scale for enterprise levels.
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MicroStrategy Developer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
It provides a single point of reporting from many data sources.
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Senior business Intelligence consultant at Asociación SevillaUP
streamlining processes, cleansing data
We use it for any kind of reporting and analysis. It helped manage the institution, reduce costs and provide better service to the patients (which are our customers...)
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BI Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We literally have some issues with the high-end users using the data and trusting the data. A lot of it gets dumped into certain areas, therefore we made a central repository for it. Then MicroStrategy reports off of that central repository, so we can validate the data relatively easily. Thus we can say, "Look, this is what we are seeing for Louisiana. This is what you guys have from the communication center. It matches one for one."
It builds a lot of rapport between the top end users and us. When I say that, I am referring to the "C" levels, the executive committee people, and other high end users.
MicroStrategy self-service is on the horizon. We have a couple of groups of people that we are trying to test out self-service with right now, specifically, our quality improvement group and our business development group. The problem for us is we do not want self-service to become this thing where there are reports everywhere and we can't manage it, so we are trying to develop some auditing processes to make sure that we are not throwing ourselves to the wolves. However, the plan is definitely to move towards self-service. We want the users to be able to be intelligent enough to make what they need and see what they want.
Dossiers are going to change the name of the game for us. We want to be able to have the executive committee go into a meeting and tell a story. We want them to tell us a story, not us. I do not want to go in as an IT guy and say, "Hey, this is the story." We really want the executive committee to be able to understand that this is a way of telling a story with data, because data without information is useless. If we can get them to that point, which I am confident that we can, then MicroStrategy will have done a great service to us, and rendered time back to us to go spend on other places.
That is really what we are shooting for. Dossier is a big thing for us. Geospatial analytics is huge for us. Anything that we can do with self-service is big for us. Those are the top three goals for 2018, in general.
it_user803139
IT Consultant at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The features of the product have definitely been beneficial. We do plan to roll out MicroStrategy Self-Service to our business teams.
We prefer having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy provides, because it is easier. The customer gets to use one type of tool, then sticks with it. The customers are looking for Geospatial in 2018, so that is where we will be using it.
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Microstrategy Project Manager & Microstrategy Lead Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's a DSS tool. Thus, for analysis in an analytics-oriented company, it has made a huge difference in their decisions.
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BI Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
MicroStrategy makes it easier to control internal and external demands and also to monitor public programs financed by the institution.
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Application Developer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The ability for end users to self-service on ad-hoc reports.
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Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees
We do consulting and Implementation of solutions to many industries like retail, distribution, manufacturing, oil & gas, wholesale, etc. Most of the solutions require the end reporting to be apt and simplified in nature. MicroStrategy’s built-in solutions help a very reasonable amount of customers. As they require customization, developers are required to use the desktop client. That is not simple.
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Manager HRO Application Development at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Before we used Microstrategy at Xerox Services (HR services) we used to analyze data using Spreadsheets, to calculate and report on service SLAs and KPIs.
No need to mention how using MSTR has enhanced the process since then but a couple of the key benefits are:
- Data access not affecting transactional systems (data sources)
- Complex calculations (SLAs, KPI rules) right there on time when needed and always right or always wrong but centralized in a single place where formulas can be corrected if needed
it_user250524
Development Director at a government with 10,001+ employees
Mobility features have helped people who work supervising shops.
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Mobile Consultant at a tech vendor
In the old days - which is not long ago, about 10 years ago - before iPhones, you literally had to go back to your desk to run a report, and your report could take an hour to run.
Now, you can run that same report, you can access it from Starbucks, or wherever, to your mobile device, and you've got access to information. The decision makers within your company have access to the information wherever they want it, whenever they want it.
it_user807354
Senior BI Developer at a individual & family service with 501-1,000 employees
Reports are very easy to create. It takes a very short amount of time to build a report, which is very useful. It is very easy to access them from my desktop and web (everywhere). When someone logs in, they can simply see all the reports. It is easy to schedule them.
We are running Self-Service to our business teams now. It is good.
We prefer a many point solution right now due to different areas of the business, because they are asking for different things. Some functionality is easier to be built in different products. Therefore, I have found MicroStrategy to be probably doing 80% of everything, but there is 20% left that is easier with other tools with different types of visualizations slicing and dicing the data.
In 2018, we plan on using Dossier.
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BI Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It improved a lot because coming from using Excel files, then using Oracle OBIEE, there is more flexibility now. The product is more scalable. We can support multiple platforms and different users. It is really good.
In 2018, we will be looking at Dossier and it collaboration aspect, which will be good for us.
The future plan is to also introduce mobile, but right now we are in the infancy stage. We are trying to introduce the ad hoc reporting, and once we get in-depth in it and we make it sticky enough, then we will move to mobile.
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Sub-Manager of Development at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have centralized a lot of reports. We all are using the same data. We've discussed a lot about the significance of some terms.
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Business Intelligence Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Presents dashboards with more enhanced visualizations compared to other tools.
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Business Intelligence Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
EVPs are able to run their entire business from an iPad; they can answer questions, see issues, etc. at their fingertips.
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MicroStrategy Expert with 15 years exp. at Strategy BI Consulting
All business data available to analyse in acceptable time and form with no extra efforts.
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Senior Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
Because we are in retail, we do a lot of analytics. The way that we designed the graph is pretty cool for our analysis on a daily basis, so that we can define our forecast.
it_user807372
Developer at a renewables & environment company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are planning on rolling out Self-Service and investing in mobile analytics.
In the immediate future as in the next month, because our other license expires in March, we want to hurry up and just get all of our reporting replaced and have them all in MicroStrategy, then we will move forward from there.
it_user807336
FPNA Analysts at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are still getting it setup, so it is hard to say how it is going to perform. We are not really live yet. We are in the setup and test phase.
We do plan on rolling out the Self-Service to our business teams.
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Business Intelligence Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees
Perfect balance between self-service and governed BI.
While VI gives self-serve agility, report wizard brings governance specifying limits on MicroStrategy and database end.
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Senior BI Analyst at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
It gives people access to data in a single place (portal).
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Information Publishing Portfolio Manager at a comms service provider
A single management dashboard is visible on the big screens of all the company chiefs. This enables them to easily refer to it during meetings. They are able to drill down on specifics. It provides a view of the current position of the companies KPIs, and provides the main source of ‘true data’.
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Tech Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We were able to automate multiple repetitive tasks in the BI environment using administrative tools provided with this product. This helped the team focus their energies on critical work tasks.
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Business Intelligence Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We provided dynamic reports, using data from a large database. The ability to use in-memory calculations in association with the calculations performed in the queries, made possible to run heavy queries faster, because the the heaviest calculations were performed by the analytical engine. So the query passed less time at the RDBMS.
In another situation, we were supposed to configure MicroStrategy Mobile on many devices. To do this, we made a list of the users, told them to download and install the app, and then we sent them the link to configure the application. In a few minutes, almost every device was configured and running.
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MicroStrategy Consultant at Interstate Batteries
I am a consultant so my list is big. Therefore, I will pick the most recent one which on my current assignment is directly proportional to the operational costs for a business. At Interstate Batteries using RFID Technology we have a couple of web dashboards that displays inventory in the field, lists all the shops and their respective out of stock counts, shops that need to be serviced, and shops that have old batteries. Participating distributors(people who own the business of selling batteries) have sold their unwanted trucks(reducing operational costs), increased the amount of batteries sold for every stop made), reducing hot shots(delivering out of stock batteries) and increased sales at an average of 50% .
View full review »it_user807378
BI at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees
It does not really impact the way we function, so much as what we sell. It is a good tool to help our customers visually see loads of data.
We will be using Dossier the most in 2018.
View full review »it_user807411
BI Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
I look at the front-end, the website. They have landing pages and that makes life easy for exhibiting things.
View full review »it_user807360
BI Developer
It has greatly benefited our organization. We have a lot of products based on it. We license products from MicroStrategy to clients, therefore it is pretty important.
We started with Self-Service and now we are actually restricting Self-Service. What we do is give access to prompted reports for clients and we control ACLs on those objects. It feels like Self-Service because they are picking what they are using in the report, but they are not actually getting to the semantic layer.
View full review »it_user807333
BI Developer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is convenient having it right there on the phone. They do not have to login. They can get it from anywhere they are.
View full review »it_user442254
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
Working as a BI Consultant, I have to develop different analyses, reports and dashboard documents to analyze the status of different business measures. We are using OBIEE and MicroStrategy for the purpose of enterprise performance management by defining and describing different business perspectives and objectives, initiatives and results are analyzed on the basis of these defined attributes.
View full review »it_user135108
BI Team Leader at a government with 501-1,000 employees
I really appreciate Visual Insight because it is easy for end users and it breaks IT dependencies.
We have a small technical staff. If we give opportunities to our clients to develop their own reports and graphics, we can concentrate our efforts on increasing the quality of other reports that demand a little bit more knowledge and expertise.
it_user220146
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
Using the intelligence cube, I’ve managed to increase the performance of the main load of my documents, giving users the full data access in less than five seconds, instead of spending 30 seconds or a minute waiting for the results.
Update: Using the mobile application, it gave insurer agents more flexibility and a great success in their daily roles, since they could insert new information directly from MicroStrategy Mobile (using Transaction Services) and the colleagues at the company could respond within minutes or hours, saving the problem that is the trip.
it_user170676
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The results are not in yet as it is too early to tell.
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Eric Figueroa
Senior Business Intelligence Consultant at Logsys Analytics
This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies.
View full review »it_user158172
GRM Spain - Tools and Risk Models with 1,001-5,000 employees
Combined with a data governance, it helped us to share information across the organization, to provide a unique source of relevant information, and to avoid duplicities.
View full review »it_user807396
BI Team Lead at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
It's integral enough to make financial decisions in our organization.
it_user152448
Senior Software Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It helps to provide answers quickly for critical business questions. It has reduced our time spent on data entry and manipulation and can identify areas for cost cutting.
View full review »it_user505383
Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
It enables you to build decision support systems. MicroStrategy has improved the decision-making process through Enterprise Reports with automated and corporate information management.
View full review »it_user374076
UI Architect and Senior Operations Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I think it shall be very helpful if the future versions allow much more customization following a simpler procedure
View full review »it_user136422
Industry Analyst at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
More interactive in terms of visualization. Gets rid of old transactional reports and Grid reports.
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it_user807402
BI Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
it_user6837
Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees
Users can now consolidate data from across the business without reaching boundaries of cubes.
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Director3013
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Users are getting their reports when they need them.
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Anton Cui
Solution Executive DAG at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI.
View full review »it_user807363
Data Engineering Leader at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees
The data governance leads people to trust the data that they have, and they know where to get it.
In 2018, we are planning to use the semantic layer. We are also planning to look at investing in mobile analytics.
View full review »it_user656304
Data Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It allowed end users to self-service their reports.
View full review »it_user528906
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
This tool lets you design operational/analytical reports that business utilizes to overcome bottlenecks in processes of product development life-cycle.
View full review »it_user220092
Project Associate at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has helped a lot of business users gain insight into how their business is doing.
View full review »it_user72702
Business Analyst at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Key Sales and Operations figures receive periodic tailor made data pertaining their responsibilities and interests.
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it_user812775
Department Manager with 10,001+ employees
Mature product with a lot of features and connections to almost all back-end technologies used in the BI space.
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