MicroStrategy Initial Setup

Pietro Saglietti - PeerSpot reviewer
Management Consultant at STG

The initial setup was straightforward and I haven't faced any issues.

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Azhagupandi Parthiban - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President Of Technology at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The implementation itself was pretty straightforward. The tricky part was understanding MicroStrategy's licensing model, which was a bit convoluted back then.  

MicroStrategy has simplified it now, though. But overall, the implementation took about a year for our developers and architects to get comfortable, which is fine. There was a bit of a learning curve. 

It's the user-friendliness compared to other BI products that gets me. Power BI and Tableau just feel more intuitive for non-technical users. So, MicroStrategy can be more user-friendly. 

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AJIN S L - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Analyst at Allianz

The initial setup was easy.

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it_user156600 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Analyst at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup is straightforward. Reading through the installation documentation is a must. Afterwards, you have a had a good idea of what is required before installation. You can run through a number of installation prompts and the software is installed. It gets a bit more technical setting up your environment after the standard setup. Manual steps after the installation such as setting up a clustered environment, integrating windows authentication with windows AD groups, intelligent cubes, cache and history etc.

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Anuja Dhakshinamoorthy - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager at InfoCepts

The solution is deployed on an on-premises model.

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PK
Database Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup is simple. I use an on-prem implementation for all these tools and it's straightforward, particularly for a single note cluster.

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AE
Fintech Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is very simple. It is very user-friendly, very easy.

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RP
Northern Europe IT Business Intelligence Manager at Adecco

I'm not aware of how the process went in the organization. I only began working in the organization one year ago, and this solution was already embedded in the company.

What I'm trying to do is to switch some of the things from MicroStrategy to Power BI in the organization, due to the fact that MicroStrategy may fit for some points, but it's not intuitive for your typical end-user customer.

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it_user69156 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Expert at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Initial setup complexity depends:

  • If you are going on-premise with MSTR, then - depending on your knowledge on setting up the tool - some might call the setup complex. However, in my view, it’s straightforward, with tons of support and knowledge available.
  • If you choose to go cloud with MSTR, its even simpler, as MSTR technical support takes care of all the setup for you.
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Sushrit Moundekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at InfoCepts

MicroStrategy's installation is easier for the developer or the administrator but not for the IT person from the infrastructure team. If anyone knows MicroStrategy, they can install it. For someone who doesn't know about the solution, it's not a ready-to-be-installed tool, just like Power BI or Tableau. For MicroStrategy, you need an understanding of the product it comes with.

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DE
IT project manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees

MicroStrategy is easy to set up.

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AY
System Engineer at Roads & Transport Authority

The initial setup of MicroStrategy is complex. Our organization's structure requires the handling of three environments of the platform, development and production with the corporate technology, production support and the other IT support making it very complicated to get the developed final product live. Deployment took two weeks. 

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MP
Senior MicroStrategy Architect at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Being an admin, it was an easy task for me. If you are not an admin and you are just a user or an architect, the initial setup is not that easy as compared to other tools.

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it_user514302 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. MicroStrategy Consultant at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup used to be very time consuming and complex (because of so many components) but over the years, they have trimmed it down to minutes.

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TH
Senior Manager of Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

It is somehow complicated for a user/analyst without a DWDM background. But for an experienced DWDM modeler, it would be an easy task.

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it_user111504 - PeerSpot reviewer
VP of Customer Experience at a consumer goods company with 501-1,000 employees

From a technical perspective, the default installation is quite straightforward.

However, initial setup complexity depends on the eye of the beholder I guess. I started with around 70 end users, 120 reports/dashboards across the company, one production server of MSTR with passive fallback, and transactional services for writeback on our data warehouse.

MSTR has no contact with nor at any point was used to manage the data warehouse or our data sources.

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BC
Enterprise Analytics Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup was pretty straightforward. We had some help installing it, but it made sense for what we were doing.

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MD
Co-Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It does require deployment, and with Azure's architecture, you need a central computing unit like MicroStrategy Intelligent Server. So, that must be installed and configured. 

Once it is set up, you can start integrating data into it and building dashboards. Setting this up takes time, but it has the advantage.


The advantage of this approach is the enterprise scale of the solution. You have time to carefully consider your implementation and follow a more waterfall-style approach, eliminating and minimizing errors. 

This is unlike some other solutions where you can start quickly with Excel files and move data into BI tools rapidly. While that's convenient for speed, it can lead to neglecting a solid, scalable approach for the future.

The deployment took around a couple of weeks. It takes around two weeks to configure everything. Moreover, setting up the project and defining the data sources and desired outcomes can also impact the timeline.

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CD
Vice President & CIO at a logistics company with 201-500 employees

The set up takes a while, but once it's set up it's an automatic mode.

We hired someone that had the consulting experience and became our permanent team member.

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it_user807399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst 2 with 5,001-10,000 employees

I wasn't involved in the initial setup, but I have been involved in upgrades. The upgrade from 10.4 to 10.8, simple click of the button, but it just didn't go through as we had anticipated. There's really no explanation as to why. We ran it again and it went through without a hit. Again, that was one of those problems where we don't really know what caused it, we don't know why our installation wasn't working very well.

Then when we attempted to upgrade from 10.8 to 10.9 on our sandbox server, we spent roughly a month and a half trying to do that, completely and totally unsuccessfully. I don't know why. Again, I think that might be a component of how our servers are structured, the way our registries are structured, the way our security interacts with MicroStrategy, but it's a problem. We're working on that.

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it_user514329 - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Partner and Sr. MicroStrategy Enterprise Solution SME at a tech company

MicroStrategy’s implementation has always been very straightforward and the organization has continued to strive to simplify the whole deployment process. It requires minimal support from other IT personnel.

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it_user513906 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager at a marketing services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Set up can be complex, though not as complex as SAP, for example. The most important thing, the very most critical thing, is that the data model is correct. Attributes need to be clearly understood and their relationships to each other and the various facts needs to be carefully defined BEFORE you begin. An ER diagram, be it in Visio or a tool like ERwin, is invaluable and in my personal opinion a must have. Going back to redefine attribute relationships and table structures can be very difficult. Do not think you can ‘figure it out as we build’. You’ll need a person who is an experienced data modeler on the team.

Software installation and hardware configuration is fairly straight forward.

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it_user5598 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Director, BI Architecture at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
I can’t comment on this because initial setup had been conducted before I joined the company. View full review »
it_user238434 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup is straightforward.

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it_user512088 - PeerSpot reviewer
MicroStrategy Product Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are a Windows environment, so set up was very easy.

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it_user511203 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Senior at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup is straightforward but can get complex as the requirements change. The product is quite flexible when it comes to accommodating special requirements.

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it_user123129 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Visalization Architect at MSD

Each release (even a minor one) is unique, so initial setup is definitely complex; each installation has its own specifics.

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it_user807420 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Analyst Manager at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

I was not involved in the initial setup but I have upgraded three versions so far. Upgrading has been straightforward.

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MT
BI Architect/Admin at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

The initial setup is not straightforward or complex. It has a moderate amount of difficulty.

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it_user807384 - PeerSpot reviewer
Platform Data Visualization Architect at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

I did not do the initial setup for the mobile solution, because that was somehow developed by third-parties. Otherwise, I was hands-on for the initial 10th releases, like 10.2, 10.3, and even 10.4.

In the beginning, it looked straightforward, but each of the releases had its own issue for some reason. I did not see any additional value of providing one button for installation on the whole platform if it was going to be installed for different servers. You would have to make customization every time. There was no additional value in an installer. 

This should be an area MicroStrategy focuses on as well as the upgrade pads, especially Enterprise Manager and its statistics. This has always been an issue. Many of the reports were basically unusable. 

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it_user807381 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Management- Project at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

If you are a technical person, someone who has all the tools and processes to get you trained on the platform and be able to manage the platform and installation by yourself, it would be straightforward. But for a non-technical person, it could be a little heavier (complex).

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it_user807339 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Applications Developer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I was not involved in the initial setup.

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it_user413238 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Specialist at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

It was straightforward to me and now they have made it much easier in v10.x with express install and a static licence key rather than updating it on every sub release within the versions.

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Alexandra  Misios - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Our infrastructure department takes care of the implementation. There are some drawbacks to the shift. MicroStrategy is also scaling.

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SS
Graduate Engineer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I was not involved in any of the admin processes. We have a team of 10 to 15 people for deployment and maintenance.

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it_user807369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Strategic Services Executive at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have been involved in some parts of the setup, and it is pretty much straightforward. It is not horribly hard to set up in comparison to other things that I have seen.

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it_user807357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Of Healthcare Economics at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Some stuff is easier than others. Throughout this big project that we are working on now, there have been challenges and hurdles. We have worked through those one at a time. It is user-friendly in some aspects, but in others, you definitely have to do some research to figure out the right way to fine-tune things. 

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it_user262917 - PeerSpot reviewer
Retail Solutions Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

There is an added complexity in an OEM setup because we ultimately have to be able to deliver a ‘reusable’ solution to our customers. The user setup seems flexible, but it can be complex. 

My experience may be OEM-centric. It was, for the most part, addressed when MicroStrategy repackaged their applications under fewer solution umbrellas.

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it_user198780 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

MicroStrategy setup requires a few hardware prerequisites, and a few other installations in the system. This include the .NET framework, IIS, etc. Once the prerequisites are met, it is straightforward.

Also, we can install different MicroStrategy components in different servers, assuming that those servers are able to communicate with each other. This avoids the overhead of having traffic on only one server.

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it_user144300 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director of BI / Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

You need to understand the platform but once you have this understanding the installation is very straightforward.

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VS
Senior Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

I was not involved in the initial setup.

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it_user531798 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a consultancy with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup is complex. However, MicroStrategy sends technical support to assist with the initial setup. These consultants work in conjunction with the company's employees to get it set up.

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it_user69087 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Analytics at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Independently from the tool, initial setup is always complex. Usually complexity depends on the scope of the project. Few reports and 1-2 datamarts this one thing, plug-in data warehouse to the reporting - another.

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SR
Vice President of Data Engineering Practice at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

The initial setup of MicroStrategy is straightforward.

I rate the ease of setup of MicroStrategy a four out of five.

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it_user807405 - PeerSpot reviewer
Analytics Technical Officer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

I'm on the business side, the design of the metadata and the like; on the hardware and that type of stuff, I don't get involved.

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it_user807423 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director Analytics And Data Management at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

I don't think it was complex at all. I think the time to actually stand the solution up was relatively short. I think the complexity didn't come into the actual set up, it came into the actual configuration and development of solutions. The set up was easy. You just install the thing. It's the development that's the tricky part.

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it_user807330 - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

No, I recently joined my company.

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it_user185844 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I was not there at the initial setup. I found it easy to add some new attributes, facts, and metrics.

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it_user162021 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Development Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees

The setups I have done are all single-server deployments, both in Linux and Windows:

  • I-Server
  • Mobile server
  • Web server
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it_user512919 - PeerSpot reviewer
Microstrategy Developer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup was straightforward.

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it_user125418 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner/Principal at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
On my personal Windows 7 Pro 64-bit machine. I don't know how different it might be on an enterprise server, although an acquaintance who has deployed it says that there are no issues. View full review »
HP
Senior Data Analyst at Charutarhealth Org

It was very complicated. I was installing the MSTR library on Linux. It took me two months. It is very easy to install MSTR on Windows.

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HP
Senior Data Analyst at Charutarhealth Org

The initial setup was very complex and complicated. They have a very simple installation for Windows, but for Linuxware, it is far too complicated.

Deployment took almost two months.

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it_user807408 - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I was not involved in the initial setup, but I was involved when we increased the number of licenses from 260 to now almost 950. I was involved in that deal making.

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it_user807426 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Functional Front End at a non-tech company with 10,001+ employees

When we started it was still version 9, and we deployed our mobile solution through MobileIron, and then we still had to do repping of the app. So there was more complexity, but that's due to the mobile device management solution and it would be the same with any other kind of solution. That's just complexity because of security.

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TE
Sales Performance Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees

I was involved in the upgrading, not the initial setup. We did not have any issues with the upgrades.

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it_user519399 - PeerSpot reviewer
Freelance MicroStrategy Expert, MicroStrategy Master at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

The initial configurations of the server and the project require a high level of experience. The installation is rather straightforward, but the configurations require deep understanding of the product and the environment.

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it_user72435 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Installations/upgrades have been somewhat complex in the past and time-consuming; however, the increasing versions of 10.2 continue to reduce the number of total, and especially manual, steps.

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it_user487488 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Initial setup was relatively straightforward. However, beginner users can suffer from a lack of information and help from the community after using Oracle products.

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GM
Sales Director at Expeditus (Pty) Ltd

If you have the right skills, it's not a difficult process. However, as environments change and become increasingly complex, it's harder to keep everything aligned on the administrative side, especially in large institutional settings. It's challenging to keep the backend administration of the system in line with those changes. Larger organizations have complex environments that the technology needs to interface with. So that's where it gets complicated. 

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OA
Business Application Group Manager at OBASE

MicroStrategy's installation takes time. However, it doesn't take weeks, for example. It only really takes a couple of days. In contrast, however, with Power BI there is no installation process at all. You just buy a license. After that, your Power BI is open.

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JJ
Principal Partner at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was done a very long time ago. We had a third-party help us when we first implemented it back in the 90's. 

Since then, we have managed it ourselves. 

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PD
Principal Co-founder at Enterprise BIDI Solutions

Setup was easy. By creating a unified project model with the organizational standards, business rules, and project design, the underlying data model design is streamlined resulting in consistent reporting and analysis across the enterprise.

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MS
Senior Application Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The implementation was fairly straightforward. 

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it_user807414 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Windows implementation is pretty straightforward. Linux is pretty easy. High-level, it's very easy.

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it_user807348 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Development Management

The initial setup is in-between straightforward and complex. It is not too complex.

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it_user511212 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup was quite straightforward and easier to me.

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it_user514278 - PeerSpot reviewer
Program Manager at a tech company with 10,001+ employees

We use the Cloud edition, so N/A.

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it_user511446 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial set up is a bit complex, as I’ve mentioned. Everything is based on the relationship defined in the schema. If someone messes that up, the reports will start giving incorrect output.

Also, to ensure scalability, the hardware needs to be robust, but I guess that is true for any tool.

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it_user507996 - PeerSpot reviewer
MicroStrategy BI Consultant at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Initial setup is very straightforward. They also provide cloud services for smaller clients who don't have their own infrastructure or don’t want to spend a lot on building infrastructure.

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SR
Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup is bit of complex, this being an enterprise tool. It has three main components: Desktop, Web development, and Intelligence Server, and each has to be installed separately.

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it_user807375 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Project Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

I was not involved in the initial setup. 

We are going to be looking for the next platform release. That is what we are hoping for, and so I will be involved in that. 

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it_user538236 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Staff BI Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup is straightforward. Step-by-step configuration information has been provided by the vendor.

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it_user221904 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

MicroStrategy has a steep learning curve and you need to spend time in training before you can use the full potential.

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it_user139296 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We did have some issues, but good documentation from MicroStrategy and the Technotes helped resolve most of them.

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it_user260568 - PeerSpot reviewer
MicroStrategy Developer at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

Setup is overall fairly easy. However, changes in the metadata/statistics tables from one version to the next can benefit from better documentation to give clients a heads up.

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it_user70134 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior business Intelligence consultant at Asociación SevillaUP

The setup is complex. After the installation you need to configure several aspect of the suite: metadata, connections, Project settings and start developing objects. I suggest buying a book or reading the manual thoroughly. There is a very good book on Amazon "Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy" that covers every aspect of the setup and initial phases of the Project (http://amzn.to/1by3HAO).

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it_user803136 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Analyst at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was not involved in the initial setup. 

I came in three years after its inception, and it was in the Lazarus stage. They were not going to spend any more money, get rid of the tool, phase out of it, and since then we have brought the tool back:

  • We have bought 100 new licenses.
  • We have ramped up user adoption.
  • We have run on trips to do symposiums.
  • We have found that it is starting to fit together.
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it_user803139 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Consultant at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was not involved in the initial setup.

However, I have been involved in upgrades of the solution, which were mostly straightforward.

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it_user278022 - PeerSpot reviewer
Microstrategy Project Manager & Microstrategy Lead Architect at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

A few configurations are needed as per requirement.

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it_user505854 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Manager at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup was complex. MicroStrategy is a hard tool to configure in many ways, starting from its licensing schema.

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it_user257493 - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Developer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The setup was complex. Our warehouse was completely rewritten in order to fit the MSTR model.

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it_user406914 - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal Architect at a tech consulting company with 501-1,000 employees

Setup was pretty much straightforward.

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it_user807390 - PeerSpot reviewer
Mobile Consultant at a tech vendor

Regarding upgrades, for version 10, which is the latest version, the upgrades are more robust. There aren't as many issues as in the previous version, version 9. There were definitely issues upgrading from 9 to 10 because it's a huge upgrade, but typically it's the same issues that you're going to encounter. 

Unfortunately, MicroStrategy is known for upgrade pain, so a lot of companies don't upgrade. You will encounter problems, and when you have major enterprises that can't run some reports for days or weeks on end, that's not acceptable. But that happens rarely. 

Version 10, I've noticed that in the upgrade process I have not encountered any problems, so there something has changed in the upgrade process for the better.

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it_user807354 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI Developer at a individual & family service with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was straightforward.

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it_user807345 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I did not do the initial setup at this company, but at my previous company where I did installation, upgrades, and configurations.

The initial setup is straightforward for me, but it could vary from person to person. It is pretty straightforward, but you have to know the key words and so on, like project source. There is definitely a learning curve, but once you get to know it, everything is straightforward.

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it_user132261 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sub-Manager of Development at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have a very smooth setup. This was because we began with a small project that includes installation.

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it_user510429 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

Straightforward and simple, but takes long to install.

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it_user26829 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Manager at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is a rather complex setup, with many moving pieces and very configurable, so by default you must figure out how you want to configure it.

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it_user807393 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Analyst at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

It was pretty straightforward.

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it_user807372 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer at a renewables & environment company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Initial setup was straightforward.

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it_user807336 - PeerSpot reviewer
FPNA Analysts at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I was more on the data side getting it ready, not the administration of the product. The complexity is with our data, not really MicroStrategy.

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it_user5331 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Engineer at a leisure / travel company with 10,001+ employees

Straightforward.

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it_user295878 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior BI Analyst at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was complex, really complex! Lots of configurations and installations.

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it_user193482 - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Publishing Portfolio Manager at a comms service provider

The setup was straightforward and relatively simple.

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it_user476271 - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Lead at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The initial setup is quite vast. Users need to install & configure a lot of components in the MicroStrategy toolkit. Starting from version 10.x, enterprise manager console is embedded in the operations manager console which requires additional configuration.

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it_user75861 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Analyst at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The manuals of the tool are very complete, if you follow that, you are not going to have many problems.

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MicroStrategy Consultant at Interstate Batteries

It is straightforward to implement.

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SK
President/Owner at Vassutech

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

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it_user807378 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

The initial setup is complex, because of the customer's data and the configuration is time consuming.

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it_user807411 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Analyst at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is easy because we didn't customize anything. If you know what are you doing then it's not difficult.

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it_user807360 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Developer

I was not involved in the initial setup, but I have implemented upgrades.

Upgrades seem like they are straightforward now. A couple years ago, they were a bit more complicated. There were unknown changes and they would do version releases, then sometimes things would break and they would have hotfixes. However, when we were less mature, it was harder because we did not have the right Integrity Manager tests and automated tests that we really rely on, so it was very manual back then.

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it_user807333 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Developer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The mobile setup was not too bad.

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it_user442254 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

It was straightforward.

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it_user135108 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Team Leader at a government with 501-1,000 employees

The initial setup was easy.

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it_user220146 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

Update: Initial setup was really straightforward, in my opinion.

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it_user807396 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Team Lead at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

It's straightforward.

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it_user152448 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It has a complex set-up. It requires configuration of its Intelligence Server and Metadata.

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GD
Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I was not involved with the initial setup.

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it_user505383 - PeerSpot reviewer
Director at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees

The initial setup was straightforward and very easy.

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it_user807402 - PeerSpot reviewer
BI Administrator at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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.

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it_user6837 - PeerSpot reviewer
Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees

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

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DR
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I was involved in the initial setup and it's pretty complex, but it's very powerful once it's set up.

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AC
Solution Executive DAG at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Initial setup was straightforward.

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it_user807363 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Engineering Leader at a consumer goods company with 10,001+ employees

I was not involved with the initial setup, but will be involved with an upcoming upgrade.

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it_user656304 - PeerSpot reviewer
Data Architect at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I cannot comment, as I took the server that was already set up by a previous colleague.

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it_user528906 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Intelligence Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Installation & configuration is straightforward.

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it_user220092 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Associate at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees

The setup is well documented and is easy to do.

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it_user72702 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Analyst at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
Very complex. The tool was designed for a companywide solution yet erp systems differ between branches and some definitions such as product categories and distribution channels are different. We are still experiencing definition gaps which cause some confusion. View full review »
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