Strategy

What differentiates Strategy from other similar products?

MicroStrategy is a complete BI suite that, when implemented properly and with the proper team, will allow data governance, delivery, ad-hoc reporting, integrates with almost every data source existing, etc. This suite may require a good understanding of administration, data modeling and development to achieve goals. It's always a good idea to work with the vendor in initial stages to set a good foundation to build from. You will get the best results if you have a hybrid team that works with IT and business users as MSTR is basically in the middle of those two worlds.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Data import capabilities and MultiTableDataImport cubes are great for serving quickly changing businesses and ad-hoc reporting, while the standard modeling techniques will solve more static business needs. Integration with Python and R as well. Administration wise, once you do things properly, you have a very solid structure to rely on.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Pricing is maybe high for SMB. Knowledge base search engine is somewhat disappointing.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Try to get a hybrid team comprised of IT admins, DBA, analysts and developers. Get training passes and do the certification paths. Work with MSTR consulting to set the foundations on your 1st implementation or migration from a different vendor.

What differentiates Strategy from other similar products?

MicroStrategy is a great enterprise tool and has the ability to give the best reporting solutions with new features of dossiers. The integration of external tools like R, Python makes it much more efficient to work and there is a different tool provided by MicroStrategy where you can automate most of your works which makes it unique from others. This saves a lot of time. Basics automation which can be done was creation on users, attribute or the deployment makes it really cool as compared to others.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

MicroStrategy, why it becomes a favorite to me is because it provides great security which I have not seen to others. There is basically three kind of securities that can be implemented. 1- Data level security - Where users can see the data which they wanted too and the same dashboard or dossier can be re-used for different users. 2- Object-level - Where users can see only those objects within the dossier they wanted to. 3- Folder level- Where users can only those folders in which they are intrested in.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Nothing so far, a Great data visualization tool and the ability to automate most parts of the product which requires skills to do it.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

As being a user of MicroStrategy, I will definitely recommend using this tool if you wanted to know about the work happening within the org where it is lacking and where need a change. Great tool to use while having a best model at the backend which gives boost to reporting and comes quicker,

What differentiates Strategy from other similar products?

With this software, handling big data becomes easy thanks to the visualization capabilities. In addition, it is secure and scalable.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

First I like that makes understanding big data easy thanks to Analytics and visualization. The software is secure and highly scalable. I like that it is not a costly software despite being very helpful

What do you dislike most about this product?

Using MicroStrategy require training as it's kind of complex

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

For Business Intelligence, analytics and visualization, I recommend MicroStrategy. We have used it for long and it never disappoints