MicroStrategy Pros and Cons

It scales well. It used to have only a max of four I-servers, but I think recently, somewhere in version 10, they doubled that, so you can have eight I-servers now.

Cube performance and easy integration with third-party tools/products, are valuable features.

The whole repository side of things is beneficial because you develop it once, and you can use it anywhere, in the Enterprise grade.

The implementation was fairly straightforward.

The most valuable features are ad hoc reporting and the ability to create dashboards.

​Mobile brings reports/dashboards closer to the business user.

Provides seamless integration between browser-based BI and Mobile BI.

It is a reliable solution for our needs.

This solution has allowed us to become a top-class competitor among other consulting companies.

I don't think that they will, but I'd like to see parallel processing, scalable parallel processing.

Data writeback, and on-the-fly predictive analysis results from R and Python could be improved.

With Cube partition (v10.1 and above) scalability has not been an issue, but the Cube publish time, and temporary space consumption while the Cube is being published, has almost doubled during implementation of Cube partition.

If you compare it with Power BI with the DAX language, it would be great to put that into MicroStrategy.

The product could be improved by adding additional visualization.

Another feature to consider in the future would be adding some additional offline capabilities without using desktops.

​The product is designed for enterprise. A lightweight version would be easier for a smaller workgroup.​

This solution is missing enhanced features in the dashboards.

I would like to see a single standalone application to control everything from the administration perspective, and also to develop new applications.