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MicroStrategy Analytics

Score8.5 out of 10

269 Reviews and Ratings

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What is MicroStrategy Analytics?

MicroStrategy Analytics is an enterprise business analytics and mobility platform. Key features include automatic big data analysis and reporting, data discovery and visualization, digital security credentials, and support for mobile devices.

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Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features MicroStrategy Analytics has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 269 ratings of MicroStrategy Analytics's features
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Top Performing Features

  • Pixel Perfect reports

    Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Customizable dashboards

    Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

    Category average: 8.5

  • Report Formatting Templates

    Category average: 8.1

Areas for Improvement

  • Java API

    A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)

    Category average: 8.1

  • Themeable User Interface (UI)

    A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it

    Category average: 7.8

  • Customizable Platform (Open Source)

    A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

    Category average: 7.7

Reviews

What users are saying about MicroStrategy Analytics.
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MicroStrategy Analytics Product Review

Jeff HarrisView profile
Hospitality Consultant in Corporate at TRO Hospitality (501-1000 employees employees)

Pros

  • They sell the product well, and make promises you will actually believe
  • "checks the box" for most features a company would need. Doesn't actually deliver them though
  • They answer the phone in a timely manner. Can't answer your questions or provide support, but the queue time isn't bad
  • They have online documentation. It's not up to date, and likely doesn't reflect the version of software you are using, but hey... they can point to it.

Cons

  • [I feel like] compared to it's peers, this product is not ready for primetime. Has almost no capabilities "out of the box" good luck finding ANY canned reporting capabilities
  • Almost non-existent ecosystem for finding trained help. Relative to the 'big guys" there are not consultants or candidates you can find on the open market to actually help you implement
  • [I feel like they should] stop answering feature limitations by saying "go to the cloud product". If we wanted a SaaS solution, [there] are MUCH better ones than MicroStrategy Analytics. Your primary value proposition is it can be installed locally. I didn't realize that meant we would be limited in functionality to the dark ages.

Return on Investment

  • [I feel like] MicroStrategy Analytics implementation has had a large negative impact on the company. Significant amount of time and effort necessary to even get out the most basic of reports.
  • We are now having to run multiple reporting environments due to lack of capabilities in MicroStrategy Analytics.
  • [I feel like] we will likely migrate to a SaaS solution, and it won't be MicroStrategy Analytics.

Alternatives Considered

Google Charts

Other Software Used

Alteryx, Microsoft BI (MSBI), Google Charts

Usability

MicroStrategy Analytics is fantastic for data analytics

Verified User
Administrator in Human Resources (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use MicroStrategy Analytics for data analysis in my organization. MicroStrategy Analytics is data analytics tool that help my organization for making better decisions to enhance organizational performance and growth. MicroStrategy Analytics make things easy to do work. Through this product it is quite easy to handle large and complex data with ease. It provides wide range of integration with wide range of data sources.

Pros

  • Data visulaizations
  • Security feature works well
  • Wide range of integration with data sources

Cons

  • Complexity in use for begginers
  • Advance features are tricky
  • Costly product, need to work on it
  • Interface may be more attractive

Return on Investment

  • Improves organizational performance
  • Improves and enhance decision making
  • Drives revenue growth

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Dropbox

MicroStrategy -Powerful enterprise BI tool, can you handle it?

Incentivized
Dharmesh ShahView profile
Associate Principal in Information Technology at LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Strong semantic layer to define all the business rules and tightly coupled
  • MicroStrategy Analytics cubes are easy to create and deploy
  • MicroStrategy Analytics cubes performance is best in the industry from performance point of view
  • Slice and dice features are awesome
  • You can define hierarchy, drill up and drill down within data set
  • SDK for Customizing Analytical Applications means you can leverage metadata
  • Embedding Analytics with MicroStrategy REST API
  • Data Mining and Predictive Analytics

Cons

  • MicroStrategy Analytics desktop support waterfall model
  • Modern BI tools prefer agile methodologies
  • Correlating unstructured data sets gets challenging

Return on Investment

  • Faster ROI through reduced implementation cycle
  • Improved quality of yield and throughput
  • Reduced equipment downtime
  • Reduced production cost
  • Long-term strategic management of production assets
  • Enhanced operational efficiency
  • Precise machine failures predictions

Alternatives Considered

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform, IBM Cognos Analytics, Looker and Oracle Analytics Server (formerly Oracle BI Foundation Suite)

Other Software Used

Looker, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform, IBM Cognos Analytics, Oracle Analytics Server (formerly Oracle BI Foundation Suite), Tableau Desktop, Microsoft Power BI, Qlik Analytics Platform

Usability

Strong and Easy Reporting

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Visualization
  • Speed of access to reports
  • Easy report implementation

Cons

  • Visual diversity
  • New graphic interfaces
  • Some mathematical functions

Alternatives Considered

Oracle BI Foundation Suite and Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management

Other Software Used

Oracle BI Foundation Suite, QlikView

Intensive and reliable tool

Incentivized
Rishi Bavishi, CSSGB, CAPMView profile
Forecasting Analyst in Professional Services at Hilton (10,001+ employees employees)

Pros

  • Data collection/data access- The tool uses different attributes and metrics to generate data for you in a required format with required filters.
  • Data Visualization- The tool has great function of creating Dashboards which are specially useful for higher management to review it.
  • Data Analytics- With great amount of functions, it does most of the excel work within itself. Eliminates excel in most of the fronts.

Cons

  • Better user interface- The only thing that comes out is there is a high scope of modifying user interface. Currently it is not as good as Tableau in terms of user interface.

Alternatives Considered

salesforce and Tableau

Other Software Used

Salesforce Analytics Cloud, WebEx Meetings, SAS Advanced Analytics

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