MicroStrategy Reviews

- SQL Engine

-Ease of mobile BI development and deployment

-Scaleability 

- Security (encryption) with compression

- Idea for enterprise wide BI delivery

It needs better EM logging. EM is MicroStrategy enterprise manager which logs usage and stats. It has becomes very difficult over last couple of years to use this feature to have a BI environment rolled out to users.

MicroStrategy customer support including premium support is pretty bad in handling product level question or defects..which leads to lots of dissatisfaction for a customer

• BI reporting
• Dashboard
• Mobile

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

Mobile. It brings reports/dashboards closer to the business user. They can access it whenever they want with their mobile devices. It also provides consistent user experience similar to the same reports/dashboards on browser, and it is very intuitive. 

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

Not at all. MicroStrategy is known for its enterprise ready platform. 

Every software with a flawed design has issues. MicroStrategy is not an exception.

I would rate technical support as an eight out of 10.

Initial setup was straightforward.

MicroStrategy needs a certain level of back-end design skill. Choose the right back-end system.

We mostly do reporting for the business units. It is performing very well.

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.

The data governance is the most important thing.

I have not seen the data-wrangling capabilities in 10.10. If that is not good, then that. Then, it needs better visualizations.

The stability is great.

The scalability is great.

Technical support is awesome. I have a specific contact who answers me correctly when I ask questions.

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

If MicroStrategy can do what Tableau does, then we would like to have one platform.

Consider the maturity of MicroStrategy's data model. 

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: Going forward, it will be integration with other platforms, like Salesforce and Hadoop. 

Ease of use was valuable. It enabled our end users to do their own reports as self-service with little to no training, thus requiring less support.

It allowed end users to self-service their reports.

Metadata management could be improved. When you delete an object, if there is any object directly linked the metadata, this may become corrupted and break the software. The only way to restore it is to delete the linked objects, whether or not you know which of them have this issue.

I have used this solution for eighteen months.

We did encounter stability issues. We had a serious metadata corruption problem.

The cost of licensing made scalability unprofitable.

We would give technical support a rating of 5/10. The existing whitepapers and documentation were very useful, but actual support never answered us.

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

This all depends on your budget.

Ensure there is enough of a budget for continued support, or look for a different product where there is a bigger community.

• Architect (lets you design schema for multi-dimensional analysis)
• Visual Insight (self-service BI)

This tool lets you design operational/analytical reports that business utilizes to overcome bottlenecks in processes of product development life-cycle.

• Visual Insight is still not mature & does not have as much flexibility as its competitors. It is very unstable while doing development or using. Also, it does not have features such as associative filtering that Qlik has. Also, you do not have many options when formatting graphs. There is still a large gap between document vs VI features.
• Concurrent usage of Architect while retaining consistency.

I have used it for seven years.

Schema development stability issues.

Browser compatibility.

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

Technical support can be improved.

I did not previously use a different solution.

Installation & configuration is straightforward.

Licensing is a bit complex.

Identify the user base & then analyze usage from the end-user & developer point of view. Keep track of unused licenses instead of adding new ones every time.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

Make sure you are implementing this as an enterprise system & always check compatibility with other integrating systems.

• Robust architecture
• Scalable reports and scorecards
• Integration with other products

It has helped a lot of business users gain insight into how their business is doing.

The developer tool-kit is bit like that of late 90's and the developer friendliness needs to be improved a bit.

I've used it for over four years.

No major issues.

None as of now.

No issues encountered.

Good. The support site is very helpful.

Very good. The tech support team responds very quickly.

No solution was used previously.

The setup is well documented and is easy to do.

We used an in-house team.

As the licensing cost is, relatively, not high, it provides great ROI.

A must have Gartner leader BI tool. Tableau and MSTR can complement each other but I would put my money on Microstrategy..