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Improving BI Tool
What do you like best about the product?
Visualizations
Re-usability
Run time linking of attributes and KPIs.
The way attributes and KPIs are linked is amazing.
The multiple options in the VLDB settings is awesome
Re-usability
Run time linking of attributes and KPIs.
The way attributes and KPIs are linked is amazing.
The multiple options in the VLDB settings is awesome
What do you dislike about the product?
Schema locks
Migration processes.
A more robust way to move objects would be great.
A way where the objects will be collected automatically in a request.
More like in SAP systems
Migration processes.
A more robust way to move objects would be great.
A way where the objects will be collected automatically in a request.
More like in SAP systems
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Multiple applications related to P&L, store managment and operations.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Visual Insights is amazing tool
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Best Business Intelligence Platform
What do you like best about the product?
We are using Microstrategy in our activity in order to have a complete image in our business decision making. We appreciate the Microistrategy platform due to its flexibility, capabilities and functionalities.
What do you dislike about the product?
They have plenty of tutorials on their website but sometimes is hard to find.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are creating reports, dashboards in order to have an accurate image of our business. Through Microstrategy Business Intelligence, we are now being able to take decisions in real time, to respond to accounting errors in due time.
It has been a good learning curve.
What do you like best about the product?
MicroStrategy is one of the best Enterprise wide BI tools out there. It is easy to configure and gives a wealth of options.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's user interface can be improved and be made more intuitive. Better tutorials and getting started video akin to Tableau could be provided.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Enterprise wide BI with data security is unparalleled.
My Microstrategy Review
What do you like best about the product?
Microstrategy synchronization between web and developer. single interface for end users to create their content and view it on the web directly. Microstrategy's distribution services is one among the best features. The rich looking dashboards that can be created using Microstrategy compared to other tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the basic type of filters (Drop down+search+checkbox) and few other combinations which are very much basic filtering types which should be available are missing. recent versions have lot of bugs, and Microstrategy asking customer to upgrade to next versions is not the solution, as the next versions have some other bugs which need to be addressed before releasing newer versions.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Transaction services, Microstrategy office are helping one of the best features, though transaciton services needs some bug fixes in version 10
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Know your usage before choosing any tool.. each tool has its advantages and limitation. Comparing tools will not help.
Microstrategy User Review
What do you like best about the product?
The MSTR schema provides a comprehensive OLAP layer that ensures that the data is accessed with highly optimized queries and with a pretty good performance. Also, the support for mobile transactions is a really useful feature.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some of the old dashboards and documents are not that good looking. Also Visual Insights still needs some polishing to compare to other self service BI tools like Tableau.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The main business problem that we are solving is granting access to our stakeholders to their information, from a centralized location but using a federated model that allows them to use Visual Insights for Self Service BI with out the need to contact the BI staff for ad hoc reporting or for frequently asked business questions.
We create self service spaces that include only the information that they need and we empower them to create BI solutions by themselves.
We create self service spaces that include only the information that they need and we empower them to create BI solutions by themselves.
Consider carefully
What do you like best about the product?
The Desktop application is now free.
Pricing model is clearer than earlier but..
Pricing model is clearer than earlier but..
What do you dislike about the product?
Documentation, inconsistencies, lack of details, and lack of solid examples. Poor if you compare to Teradata, Tableau and SAS.
Online Training options. Limited. I was at a user conference and they all recommended Youtube. A non
Microstrategy employee had made some videos. Very disappointing if you compare to Tableau. That includes transcripts of their material. SAS has just two (2) free online options but they are very good and fairly comprehensive.
Staff/ Resources: Cannot find any in the job market.
Tech Support: Disappointing, on par with Business Objects apparently. SAS were mostly good. Tableau looks alright thus far.
Software usability: users going very well with Tableau. Generally dislike Microstrategy, this is the non Desktop reporting version though.
Bugs /Shortcomings: I have a vendor consultant spending most of his time spent on making the software do what it is supposed to do/ investigating software issues/ workarounds. One year on Office add-in.. To be fair that does have environmental aspects but if they had some clearer documentation on ports used, protocols, etc that would have helped. .
Enterprise Manager: this is something that helps with reporting on usage. It has alot of prebuilt reports. But there are no clear definitions of the columns. There are also in some hardcoded URL links, with ASP references. We use Unix. Makes the prebuilt reporting useless. As was recommended by the vendor, best to make your own reports.
Consultant level of training/ knowledge: Upgrade from version 9 to 10. Quoted 1 month. Gave up after 3 months. Work done by vendor consultants. Do feel sorry for them but . .
Lack of security reporting, auditing capability. SAS has some options there that are ok.
Pricing model is clearer than earlier but making it hard to make it transparent on exact costings for items, based on varies levels of discounts.
Two types of releases, Platform and Foundation release. Foundation release is supported for just 6 months. . I hope that changes.
Online Training options. Limited. I was at a user conference and they all recommended Youtube. A non
Microstrategy employee had made some videos. Very disappointing if you compare to Tableau. That includes transcripts of their material. SAS has just two (2) free online options but they are very good and fairly comprehensive.
Staff/ Resources: Cannot find any in the job market.
Tech Support: Disappointing, on par with Business Objects apparently. SAS were mostly good. Tableau looks alright thus far.
Software usability: users going very well with Tableau. Generally dislike Microstrategy, this is the non Desktop reporting version though.
Bugs /Shortcomings: I have a vendor consultant spending most of his time spent on making the software do what it is supposed to do/ investigating software issues/ workarounds. One year on Office add-in.. To be fair that does have environmental aspects but if they had some clearer documentation on ports used, protocols, etc that would have helped. .
Enterprise Manager: this is something that helps with reporting on usage. It has alot of prebuilt reports. But there are no clear definitions of the columns. There are also in some hardcoded URL links, with ASP references. We use Unix. Makes the prebuilt reporting useless. As was recommended by the vendor, best to make your own reports.
Consultant level of training/ knowledge: Upgrade from version 9 to 10. Quoted 1 month. Gave up after 3 months. Work done by vendor consultants. Do feel sorry for them but . .
Lack of security reporting, auditing capability. SAS has some options there that are ok.
Pricing model is clearer than earlier but making it hard to make it transparent on exact costings for items, based on varies levels of discounts.
Two types of releases, Platform and Foundation release. Foundation release is supported for just 6 months. . I hope that changes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Getting data out of a complex system to the users. Which they download from Microstrategy, into Tableau or Excel or a database.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
The sales people will say it can do everything that Tableau can. Remain doubtful.
If looking for other Enterprise options, not sure about Tableau, but for a metadata/ data lineage/ Data Governance approach SAS is ok I found. Will need some skilled people with the initial setup though.
If looking for other Enterprise options, not sure about Tableau, but for a metadata/ data lineage/ Data Governance approach SAS is ok I found. Will need some skilled people with the initial setup though.
MSTR - top traditional BI tool
What do you like best about the product?
Great administrative and monitoring features. All features are properly inter-connected as they are build from the ground up.
What do you dislike about the product?
Ease of use. Some features are more complicated than required.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Business dashboards for our customers providing price and product optimization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great tool for traditional BI and Dashboards.
I have been using MicroStrategy for last 10 years
What do you like best about the product?
I may refer to a friend depends on what they are looking for.
What do you dislike about the product?
UI, web is still far behind. UI is not fluid.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It solves basic reporting requirement, but UI and adhoc functionality is very poor.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
MicroStrategy need to improve on UI and ease of use.
A great product!!
What do you like best about the product?
It is so easy to learn this product. So easy to create a report!
What do you dislike about the product?
Infact I don't have any dislikes. It's a nice product!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
My vendor uses this tool to dashboard the Broadcast ratings.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would strongly recommend this tool for any data discovery!
Legacy systems like Mainframe, the data resides there can be easily pulled using an ETL and load into MSTR will give you an nth dimension to the data viewing experience! such a nice tool.
Legacy systems like Mainframe, the data resides there can be easily pulled using an ETL and load into MSTR will give you an nth dimension to the data viewing experience! such a nice tool.
Quick to Market - Difficult to Maintain or Enhance
What do you like best about the product?
Can quickly build and deploy basic reports and dashboards.
Powerful and extensible when it works.
Powerful and extensible when it works.
What do you dislike about the product?
Very buggy. Much functionality does not work as advertised or requires significant amount of work around
Patching replaced by quarterly upgrade cycle
Upgrades take 3-6 weeks.
Prime does not live up to the marketing. Scalability of in-memory analytics does not live up to marketing.
In-memory cubes do not scale well to larger data sets
Rigid presentation layer for organizing cubed attributes
Memory leak found in in-memory cubes, only solution provided by support was to upgrade platform
Top tier support provides no solutions, serves more as an entry point to their paid professional services
Lack of Continuous Integration
Automated Deployments not fully baked out
Very difficult to customize - SDK is difficult to work with and documentation is insufficient to support
No adaptive-responsive views
Patching replaced by quarterly upgrade cycle
Upgrades take 3-6 weeks.
Prime does not live up to the marketing. Scalability of in-memory analytics does not live up to marketing.
In-memory cubes do not scale well to larger data sets
Rigid presentation layer for organizing cubed attributes
Memory leak found in in-memory cubes, only solution provided by support was to upgrade platform
Top tier support provides no solutions, serves more as an entry point to their paid professional services
Lack of Continuous Integration
Automated Deployments not fully baked out
Very difficult to customize - SDK is difficult to work with and documentation is insufficient to support
No adaptive-responsive views
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
procurement cost analysis and vendor contract management for health care systems/hospitals
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Avoid.
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