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Powerful tool but visualizations are clunky
What do you like best about the product?
I led a team in requirements gathering for implementation of a series of 100+ dashboards in Microstrategy. The corporate team was great support and put us in touch with developers who were top of the line.
What do you dislike about the product?
My experience with the tool’s front end was that it couldn’t do more than it could do. Visualizations were required to be scaled back due to latency issues and while new capabilities were being added, it just didn’t feel as smooth as tableau.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We automated over 600 unique management reports into 65 dashboards to be used by business teams.
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Average BI tool - Microstretegy MSTR
What do you like best about the product?
The MicroStrategy analytics platform supports multiple reporting styles and device types so that users can get their data as per the company needs.
I like the desktop version of it more. Its very easy to create metrics and use them in different reports. Multiple people can work together on a particular project.
I like the desktop version of it more. Its very easy to create metrics and use them in different reports. Multiple people can work together on a particular project.
What do you dislike about the product?
Get small bugs that really trouble sometimes. Also, the customer support is not very robust. There are forums but cannot find trusted answers to all the problem-related queries.
Architecture few is the slowest to make complete structure for data modelling. Working on FreeForm SQL is easy but that not the complete benefit of BI tool.
Architecture few is the slowest to make complete structure for data modelling. Working on FreeForm SQL is easy but that not the complete benefit of BI tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The overall experience was good. I used it for about 1 year while I was working for Business Analytics. Business decision and data for taking action. Working on Intelligent cube data/reports are faster and easy to use. Using reports for daily schedule , Alerting system to check on KPI.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to setup , working on freeForm is easy . Intelligent cubes makes reports faster.
Solid data visualization product
What do you like best about the product?
There are some great visualizations - like the world map, the timeline and the KPI widget. The drag and drop features make it very easy to add and remove data.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be a bit clunky, and there are sometimes issues importing large data sets, and I wish there were more customizations available for the widgets. The "help" pages (online) are not particularly helpful. Some of the settings are buried and not easy to find.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The visualizations help "non-numbers" people understand the data more easily. It's a great tool for giving sales people "pretty charts" to show their clients.
Improving the Reporting Experience
What do you like best about the product?
Working in advertising sales, we often need various ways of looking at reports to ensure we are evaluating revenue properly. Sometimes, the system from which we do our work is limited in variety of reporting, but Microstrategy has allowed us to access different ways of pulling reports, and an easier way of editing our reporting strategies when needed. It is easier to review the numbers we need to review with this system.
What do you dislike about the product?
The system seems a bit outdated, making it a little more time consuming to use than it needs to be.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
When our original system for selling is limited in reporting, Microstrategy allows us to utilize different methods, and have a broader glimpse at our numbers and revenue.
3 years Experience with Microstrategy
What do you like best about the product?
Centralized location for reporting makes it easier for users from different departments to access the data.
Very powerfull tool if metadata is well conceived and if the tool is well leveraged from the users and the admins.
Easy to manage and create reports for non IT users
Very user friendly interface
Can optimise and manage projects completely through the application itself if the tool is well leveraged.
Advanced analytical engine
does not reuire advanced level in SQL to customise reports
Widgets ready to use
Very stable and reliable
Rare error messages for front end users
Constructive error messages
Very helpfull Support throught Microstrategy Forum
Creating, managing accounts and granting roles and access is fast and easy
Creating projects simple projects is easy
Data source connectivity is good
Integrate well with existing systems
big inprovement from Microstrategy version 9 to version 10
Very powerfull tool if metadata is well conceived and if the tool is well leveraged from the users and the admins.
Easy to manage and create reports for non IT users
Very user friendly interface
Can optimise and manage projects completely through the application itself if the tool is well leveraged.
Advanced analytical engine
does not reuire advanced level in SQL to customise reports
Widgets ready to use
Very stable and reliable
Rare error messages for front end users
Constructive error messages
Very helpfull Support throught Microstrategy Forum
Creating, managing accounts and granting roles and access is fast and easy
Creating projects simple projects is easy
Data source connectivity is good
Integrate well with existing systems
big inprovement from Microstrategy version 9 to version 10
What do you dislike about the product?
IT gets hard to support users because the tool allows a lot of freedom for the users ( creating reports, subscriptions...)
As an admin not easy to learn, requires at least a couple of Months of challenges
It takes times to configure the software the first time
Relaoding the data when you reboot the server takes time depending on the infrastructure
At first it was hard to trust data especially when comparing sales with previous years
As an admin not easy to learn, requires at least a couple of Months of challenges
It takes times to configure the software the first time
Relaoding the data when you reboot the server takes time depending on the infrastructure
At first it was hard to trust data especially when comparing sales with previous years
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Account management
Rreporting and dashboards.
Sales forcasting
Rreporting and dashboards.
Sales forcasting
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It does not require expensive machines.
Easy DIY reports.
Multiple ways for reports deployment.
web and desktop based solution
Easy DIY reports.
Multiple ways for reports deployment.
web and desktop based solution
Excellent all in one tool
What do you like best about the product?
Microstrategy is great enterprise reporting tool with advanced analytics and visualization functionality
What do you dislike about the product?
Somethings are too techy and not straight forward sometimes for ex SDK
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reporting, analytics
Mstr
What do you like best about the product?
It is easy to navigate and it does what it's supposed to. It is nice to have a tool that quickly generates queries.
What do you dislike about the product?
It can be quite slow running reports which can often be problematic for work flow. Also the visualizations aren't great.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Navigating a database
One stop platform for all the analytics data needs
What do you like best about the product?
Visualizations and Visual Insight dashboard flexibility
What do you dislike about the product?
Data connectors are not very user friendly
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
All internal data needs like customer contacts, global data and much more.
Great for projections. Hard to understand without training
What do you like best about the product?
The overall purpose of the tool and being able to manually adjust projections
What do you dislike about the product?
How difficult it is to maneuver without training
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Projecting fundraising goals versus real-time statistics
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Train. Train. Train
Feedback on MicroStrategy
What do you like best about the product?
MicroStrategy is the one of the top leading BI tools which is highly scalable and reliable for Enterprise Analytics and Reporting.
What do you dislike about the product?
License cost is high and ease of use is little complex for end users especially users with little to no knowledge of an analytics tool.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Solving reports and files having complex data which is hard to understand from an internal and external user community perspective can be solved with intuitive reports in the form of grids, charts, documents and dashboards and lot more functionality. There are several other functionalities that are built in MicroStrategy such as OLAP, Scalar, Scientific and other aggregation functions which enable users to do simple to complex calculations on their data.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
MicroStrategy is an industry leading BI reporting and analytics tool which is very sophisticated. I would recommend this tool to any organization planning to implement BI initiatives. This tool has all the latest features that a modern BI Tool provides.
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