MicroStrategy Reviews

I think the total cost of ownership is lower than other products, it is flexible and enterprise class.

The licenses model is complicated. New features are slow to get to market (in comparison to other niche tools).

Our primary use case for MicroStrategy is reporting, including sales, marketing, operational, and financial. We use it for all of our lines of business. 

The tool I find the most valuable is MicroStrategy Architect. I use it for schematic modeling. It is scalable and integration-friendly. 

MicroStrategy should become more user friendly. It should behave more like Tableau. 

I would personally like to see more narrowcast features. 

I have been using MicroStrategy for six years. 

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

On-premises

We have insurance customers, health customers, in our organization. The performance is good.

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.

The Dossier functionality. We are on 10.4, but we have a sandbox for 10.10 and we are planning to upgrade to 10.10 next week.

We are planning to roll out self-service to business teams, but we are still working on that. We want to deploy a self-service solution to them but we have not done so yet.

For 2018, we want to use Dossier and visualizations. We have a new Vitara visualization chart. We are now planning to buy Vitara visualizations and we'll be using that.

I can't think of anything at the moment.

More than five years.

Enterprise is very stable. I've been with MicroStrategy from more than 12 years. The performance and the stability has been increasing. It is the best solution for enterprise BI platform.

We haven't faced the issue of scalability.

I like them. They have very good technical support.

We were using SSRS and we converted that, and SAS as well.

We switched because it is a stable platform and we know the good features in MicroStrategy. We have moved more and more of the reporting solutions to MicroStrategy. We still have some SSRS reports, but by the end of this year we are planning to move everything to MicroStrategy.

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.

In terms of having the analytic capabilities in a single platform, like MicroStrategy, versus a many-points solution, we are planning to use it like that. We had different reporting solutions, but we are moving everything to a single MicroStrategy BI platform.

We haven't invested in the mobile platform. We want to invest, but the problem is the security. We are in the health domain, so we have PHI data. We have some challenges, so most probably this later year or at the start of 2019 we may be able to get the mobile solution.

When choosing a vendor, the major thing I look for is the technical support; how reachable they are. And stability as well.

I definitely recommend MicroStrategy. Install MicroStrategy and use it for reporting, the dashboards, and self-service. You can use it as a centralized BI platform.

Highly scalable: It is not a bottleneck for leveraging a high-capacity analytical database.

Users can now consolidate data from across the business without reaching boundaries of cubes.

Even though self-service capabilities have been greatly improved, the basic reporting layout is still behind similar products.

I have used it for 18 years.

We have only encountered minor issues from time to time.

Scalability is excellent.

Technical support has been similar to other vendors.

We have not previously used a different solution.

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

Consider CPU-based licenses, if you have a large user population with highly varying reporting needs.

I do not recall whether we evaluated other options before choosing this solution.

The core of your data source (data warehouse) should be star schema, preferably starflake. Then you can attach other data sources around that.

I'm a system implementer, so I implement the system for customers. I implement whatever the customer needs at their site. It's generally all the BI information that they have in the data warehouse.

Its performance is very good.

Users are getting their reports when they need them.

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

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

More than five years.

It's pretty stable.

The scalability is excellent.

I would rate technical support at seven out of 10.

The choice was political: IBM Cognos against MicroStrategy, and due to IBM internal mechanisms.

My criteria for selecting a vendor are, first, that the application software works, and secondly, the support - and local support as well.

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

Pricing, in general, is high. With Power BI, you get mobile with the license, whereas with MicroStrategy, you have to purchase mobile for extra.

If you're looking for enterprise BI, go for MicroStrategy.

I would give the tool an eight out of 10. The local office would get a two out of 10. But the tool itself is just a good enterprise-grade tool.

I am a report developer and find it a very useful tool. It has everything I need and with your intelligence you are able to make fantastic reports.

The only problem is report performance.