A complete solution for enterprise BI

What are the best aspects of this product?

MicroStrategy’s backend is excellent. The SQL engine is intelligent and has plenty of settings to adapt to your database to boost performances. Security is flexible and robust, users can access various dashboards/reports or the same object but can see only a portion of the data. Plus, you can use the plugin architecture to add new features or to integrate the app with your environment.

What aspects are problematic or could work better?

The vendor has enhanced the front-end for data exploration, but in my opinion they still lag behind Tableau. However, MicroStrategy is better than other apps. Another issue is the system can be annoyingly buggy. A lot of new features have been added to the tool in the past few years, but it is a bit difficult to use them. Though new features have been added, the interface remains the same old-fashioned one.

What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?

We use MicroStrategy to build reports and dashboards for lower level employees as well as C level management. The new dashboard feature looks great and is easily customizable. It is quick and helpful to prototype from a simple db query. The app is db agnostic which allows us to use various databases. We are now trying to use Hadoop with MicroStrategy.

Are you a current user of this product?

Yes