MicroStrategy Reviews, Competitors and Pricing

it_user72702

Business Analyst at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Dec 12, 2013

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The initiall setup was very complex but the formatting tools and the subscriptions are valuable

What is most valuable?

2 most favorite features are the easy formatting tools and the subscriptions.

How has it helped my organization?

Key Sales and Operations figures receive periodic tailor made data pertaining their responsibilities and interests.

What needs improvement?

The relationship between attributes needs to be clearer and the ability to edit contact lists and subscriptions.

What was my experience with deployment of the solution?

Deployment or more to the point adaptability to the different markets and local branches was a bit shaky. It still doesn't suit perfectly every branch.

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How are customer service and support?

Customer Service: No use for it up till now. Assimilation team is very capable and helpful.Technical Support: No use for it up till now. Assimilation team is very capable and helpful.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

No BI tool existed in the company beforehand

How was the initial setup?

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.

What about the implementation team?

The system was mainly implemented through an inhouse team.

What other advice do I have?

Mainly to make sure that the data your looking to get in the end can actually be obtained and arranged easily using this tool.

Disclosure: I am a real user, and this review is based on my own experience and opinions.

it_user4401Developer at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Aug 19, 2014

Do you know if MicroStrategy Cloud can be configured so that end users can only access the service through a certain VPN?

it_user4689

Business Development Staff at a outsourcing company with 51-200 employees

Mar 1, 2013

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I would agree with Gartner

Valuable Features:

Our BI consultants single out MicroStrategy BI. The solution proofs to be efficient and full of capabilities: large volume data is easy to process, capability to tweak the attributes for complex reports and dashboards. One more plus is its widgets that enable to realize user-friendly interface.

Room for Improvement:

For really complicated and huge projects, one should take into account great number of relations between metadata entities. New analytic capabilities presuppose R language background. And yes, it will cost you. But both money and pleasure to work with.

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it_user8547Consultant at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

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Nov 20, 2013

I would like to add to this if you if you talk about cost any business implementation is supposed to be costly as there is no direct ROI.We have developed some very complex visualizations and dashboards at Infocepts and it was a real pleasure to work on this tool. If you have a proper dashboard development and data visualization frame work this tool can do wonders.

You can go through Infocepts website to see what we are doing:-
www.infocepts.com
Below is the link of our dashboard library to show you some great examples.
www.infocepts.com

In case you have any questions/queries I would be happy to assist. Feel free to reach out to me.

Thanks and Regards
Arpit Agrawal
Business Intelligence Consultant
Email: ArpitAgrawal9@yahoo.co.in

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it_user812775

Department Manager with 10,001+ employees

Feb 25, 2018

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Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes

Pros and Cons

"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"Semi-automatic support of implementing date dimensions, including delta to prior year implementation."

"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building."

What is our primary use case?

Dashboarding first and foremost for financial power users.

Web authoring and report bursting for enterprise-wide business user community.

How has it helped my organization?

Mature product with a lot of features and connections to almost all back-end technologies used in the BI space.

What is most valuable?

Semi-automatic support of implementing date dimensions, including delta to prior year implementation.
Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes.

What needs improvement?

More flexibility for hierarchy displays, especially tree views with ad hoc expand and close. Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service.

Currently, the client view looks completely different depending on what you are building.

For how long have I used the solution?

Still implementing.

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