MicroStrategy Scalability
I would rate its scalability capabilities eight out of ten.
In my company, our team consists of around 100 people. Though there are not so many members in my company, my team consists of around 100 members. Out of all my team members, around 70 people are using it.
No requirement to scale larger. Scaling infrastructure hardware such as additional severs would not be an issue.
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The product can be scaled out to a certain extent, but it only depends on the requirements of the users.
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PardeepKumar
Database Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable but time consuming. If I want to add an additional node into MicroStrategy it takes some time. We have around 200 MicroStrategy users.
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Ahmed El Banna
Fintech Project Manager at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
MicroStrategy is a scalable product.
I am not sure how many users there are in the organization, but the organization is very large with thousands of people.
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RicardoPedro
Northern Europe IT Business Intelligence Manager at Adecco
The company bought 40,000 licenses. Globally they are using the product. On the sales report, everything is being done in MicroStrategy. We are trying to change the approach because we also to centralize the data somehow. Due to that, we're actually trying to minimize the usage, not to increase it.
We will reduce the volume of licenses in the future.
That said, we're a sizeable company, and in order to grow, you really just need more licenses, therefore, in that sense, it can scale well.
View full review »MSTR is one of most scalable BI tools around at the moment.
View full review »The client that I'm working with has around 3,000 users for MicroStrategy.
View full review »The solution is scalable. We have used the solution with 100s of users, and it has been good. We never saw any logging or problems.
I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. We have a small team, so we have around two end users using this solution. We use the solution regularly.
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Evgeny Gryazov
Data Analysis and Visualization BI Team Leader at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
We have limitations with MicroStrategy, but the limitations are from our servers because we have a lot of users, and a lot of reports, and of course we need the most ability from the system and from servers because we need to have a lot of memory and a lot of CPU. For example, every Monday at 9:00 in the morning, all our users, maybe 300 users, are running a lot of reports. It's not good for the system, but the system works. At the moment it is very hard for the servers, but MicroStrategy is a very stability system.
I don't have any down times. Of course, our decision to migrate to the cloud version is because I don't want to administrate the servers. It's not my problem. I want to administrate only MicroStrategy for users and reports.
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reviewer1224795
IT project manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 10,001+ employees
MicroStrategy is scalable. We currently have 7,000 users, but we are changing the use case and plan to grow to 20,000 users over the next two years.
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Ahmed Yousri
System Engineer at Roads & Transport Authority
This is a scalable solution. We have 55 business users.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues; one of the best things about the product is its scalability.
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SeniorMgr45645
Senior Manager of Engineering at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Not for our use case, yet. We use MicroStrategy just as the content delivery layer; all our backend is done using a Hortonworks "BigData" (dislike the term btw) stack.
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Brad Cutler
Enterprise Analytics Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is great. It was one of the selling points for us on MicroStrategy.
We have not scaled yet, but we should be soon.
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reviewer2169057
Co-Founder at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
For scalability, I would rate the standard on-premises version, I'd rate a two out of ten. But the cloud version is a seven out of ten.
In Europe, I know of around 700 organizations. The US will have much more.
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Chantel Wentink
Principal Consultant at RedScreen
I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. Within our banking organization, around 300 plus users are using MicroStrategy.
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reviewer1178424
Vice President & CIO at a logistics company with 201-500 employees
This solution is the most scalable BI platform in the world. There is no other BI platform that is in its class. We have used all of them.
It's used by our analysts, our franchises, and by our executives.
We have 40 users inside the company and 4,000 users outside the company.
We plan to increase the usage of MicroStrategy. We are probably going to go as high as 8,000 users.
View full review »Scalability seems great. It wasn't great when we were on the core licensing, to be completely honest, because we were restricted to a single core across 2,500 users, so we moved to named user licensing, giving us eight cores - no problems, whatsoever. You start to think about how you move to the cloud, those eight cores become 16, then become 64 very quickly - not an issue. Scalability on that end, of the Intelligent Server, I think that's huge. We need to figure out the database component of that, but I don't think what you're asking about.
View full review »The MicroStrategy solution is very scalable. An organization can start out with limited licensing and grow more robust without compromising on the performance.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
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The tool itself scales well, however in our experience the scalability of the entire solution is 90%+ a function of the underlying database.
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I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues. MicroStrategy has been quite friendly when it comes to scalability.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »No issues with scalability. Whenever we have any technical challenges or something we don't know how to, how to integrate, we engage our partners, we reach out to MicroStrategy, and they send their technical support to assist us.
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reviewer1392336
BI Architect/Admin at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees
The scalability the product offers is excellent. If a company want to expand outwards, they can do so with relative ease.
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reviewer993717
Director Departamento Data Analitics at a wellness & fitness company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Good.
View full review »The solution is scalable. A little expensive perhaps, but it is scalable.
View full review »We have seen that it scaled in other places, and it works, so it is possible.
View full review »It is a scalable solution.
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reviewer1736475
Graduate Engineer at a transportation company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is scalable. It is on-prem, but they have cloud features as well.
We had about 300 to 400 users.
View full review »Scalability is fantastic. It can go from a small operation up to a gigantic operation.
View full review »We have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »With recent releases, MicroStrategy introduced the “Work Fencing” concept for hardware scalability.
MicroStrategy uses PRIME (Parallel Relational In-Memory Engine), which it claims as the “interactive exploration of terabytes of data with millions of users.”
MicroStrategy has been very good in upgrading itself to handle Big Data, both in terms of hardware scalability and the volume of data it can handle. We did not come across any problems in terms of scalability.
View full review »No, highly scalable on all sizes of data and platforms.
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SeniorMa2b70
Senior Manager at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Scalability is the best thing. You can really scale. It has already scaled to approximately 2000 stores and more than 15,000 users.
View full review »We haven't faced much of an issue in terms of the scalability. However, due to its design (as it is very tightly coupled with the database), it depends on databases a lot, which might be a big concern for scalability.
View full review »Product scalability is easy and MicroStrategy provides additional support if required.
View full review »Yes, sometimes web-application works unstable with big amount of data (it's not actually the big problem for the most cases but if you need few hundreds of thousands records - there could be an issue)
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reviewer1904739
Vice President of Data Engineering Practice at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees
MicroStrategy could improve its scalability. When comparing the scalability options to other solutions they are not very good. The licensing is one of the reasons it is not as scalable as it could be.
One of my clients has approximately 1,000 users using this solution.
View full review »There have been scalability issues which I attribute more to architecture than the tool. Meaning, we weren't leveraging capabilities that allow for the scalability, so we're incorporating them now.
It is scalable.
View full review »We have not had scalability issues, but we are a small group.
View full review »We have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
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Not on my personal WIndows 7 Pro 64-bit machine.
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Hetul Patel
Senior Data Analyst at Charutarhealth Org
I have been using it only for a year. I am not sure about its scalability. We have ten users who use it in our organization.
View full review »No issues with scalability. As I said, 50-plus applications so far, and it will probably get bigger and bigger from here on. No issues.
View full review »No issues with scalability.
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SalesPer1336
Sales Performance Manager at a government with 10,001+ employees
No issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues. The only thing is that if you plan on using cubes as a solution, prepare the servers with enough memory; processing the cubes is heavy on memory.
The platform now supports a cluster of eight nodes, which should be enough for over X *10K users.
View full review »I have never encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues, because we did not risk using it for large projects. We use Oracle BI instead.
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Greg Morley
Sales Director at Expeditus (Pty) Ltd
MicroStrategy is scalable. It's built for enterprises.
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Okay Akdeniz
Business Application Group Manager at OBASE
The scalability capabilities depend on the customer's environment. It depends on the infrastructure.
There are both premium and standard options. MicroStrategy works on the customer's infrastructure. This is a very different approach than, for example, Power BI.
There could be better scaling tools put into place.
We have more than 2,000 users on the solution currently. There are potentially a lot of users. In Turkey, all of the financial companies or retail companies, and other sizeable companies in the country use MicroStrategy.
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reviewer1552281
Ict Infrastructure Cluster Division Head at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is scalable. Currently, we have five users of this solution in our organization. There are about two or three people who are responsible not only for maintenance but also for the enhancement of the reports and other things.
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reviewer1497201
Principal Partner at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees
The solution is well suited to enterprise-level companies.
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Partha-DWBI Analytics Expert
Principal Co-founder at Enterprise BIDI Solutions
We have encountered no scalability issues.
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SenApp3210
Senior Application Analyst at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have not encountered any issues with scalability.
View full review »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.
The only problem with that - yes it's a cluster, they raised it from four to eight - but your jobs aren't distributed. Your job goes to a single server - one of the eight. If you have a really huge job, it'd be nice to distribute it across all eight and cut the response time significantly.
View full review »Scalability is something which will need to be improved when it goes to a bigger audience.
I have not encountered any scalability issues so far.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »The tool is scalable. Adding users or reports doesn’t have to be a headache, as long the hardware is robust enough to handle the additional reporting load.
View full review »As with stability, scalability depends on the particular environment we are in; such issues can be resolved by getting help from MicroStrategy Support.
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ProjectMan37583
Project Manager at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
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.
View full review »Scaling is something that we also are going to have to do a lot of in 2018, because our user base is going to increase. We are connecting to other people that are producing more. Up until now we have had a stable base of users, so scaling has not even been a thing.
We have grown along with it pretty well, so I have not had any issues.
View full review »We have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »So far, we did not have issues with scalability, but we never had more than 50 users using it at the same time.
View full review »We did not encounter any issues with scalability.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »We don't have Petabytes scale databases. Our information systems are in the Gigabytes order of magnitude. We were able to handle our data volume with ease. Number of concurrent users is in the hundreds, no problems so far.
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Janis Dreimanis
Operational Risk Manager
I think the scalability is excellent.
It is highly scalable. We have quite a few customers who are the users themselves. They use it and have not had any issues yet.
View full review »There were no scalability issues.
View full review »We have not yet had scalability issues.
View full review »Scalability issues have been the most significant which we have faced.
View full review »We have not had scalability problems.
View full review »We did not have any scalability issues.
View full review »On our mobile solution you can deploy up to 100,000 users. In our case, we're up to about 10,000 active users, and MicroStrategy's server technology behind the scenes, the Intelligence Server and the Mobile Servers, are very robust and they can handle the workload, which is impressive.
It is fine. Halfway there.
If you make it much bigger, some performance issues come up. On a smaller scale, it's performing well. For us, it is not that big, so it is good. However, we are not going to add more on it.
I have had a lot of projects where we had a lot of users, like thousands of users, and the data was in one report which could bring in six million records. MicroStrategy is doing a good job on scalability.
View full review »We have not had scalability issues.
View full review »Yes, the 2 million row limit.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »It really scales. The stability and scalability are really cool. That's the beauty of MicroStrategy. It competes really well with Tableau, but data-wise, MicroStrategy beats all odds.
View full review »No issues.
View full review »We have not really scaled much.
View full review »No, scalability is strength of MicroStrategy.
View full review »We have had some scalability issues, but they have not been a big problem.
View full review »I did not have any issues with scalability.
View full review »Scalability is not an issue. Administrators can make use of clustering feature to balance out loads on MSTR I-Server. MSTR can scale vertically as well as horizontally.
View full review »No issues encountered, and when we needed to upgrade a machine, we just had to change the memory configuration to use the new memory that was available.
No issues encountered.
View full review »We have not experienced any issues with the scalability.
View full review »Scalability is pretty straightforward.
We have not had any issues with it. Usually, a client selects only a couple of users, so we are not up to the thousands.
It's been able to scale for our needs.
View full review »I did not encounter any scalability issues.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »There are some scalability issues. The solution is unable to respond quickly to big reports. I had to switch to Tableau, or perform pre-processing and then import data outside of the model.
View full review »I think with all the APIs it's very scalable, although ours is a relatively new company so we haven't scaled yet.
I did not encounter any scalability issues. This is one of its strengths.
View full review »There was no issue with the scalability.
View full review »We haven't faced the issue of scalability.
Scalability is excellent.
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Director3013
Director at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The scalability is excellent.
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Anton Cui
Solution Executive DAG at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Every software with a flawed design has issues. MicroStrategy is not an exception.
View full review »The scalability is great.
View full review »The cost of licensing made scalability unprofitable.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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