Analyst Commentary and Research

“Dashboards resonate with business users because they provide valuable at-a-glance information to effectively manage and monitor business performance. MicroStrategy has elevated the functionality and visualization capabilities of its dashboards to provide users with a tremendous amount of information in an easy-to-use and compelling manner, all within the context of its highly integrated BI platform.”

Wayne Eckerson, Director of TDWI Research

“Organizations that are looking for high-quality dashboards and applications and also need to harness their investments in applications from SAP and databases from Microsoft, Oracle and Teradata should consider MicroStrategy. The advances in this new release are not just add-on features but significant enablers for providing BI capabilities across all classes and technical levels of business users.”

Mark Smith, CEO & EVP of Research, Ventana Research

“Since the inception of this Survey, MicroStrategy sites have had the highest rates for Web deployment. Unique among major BI products, the complete MicroStrategy product line was designed from the ground up for large scale Web deployments, rather than being converted from older desktop or client/server architectures as other vendors have chosen to do. This provides an advantage for its customers, who report on far more data, to more users, and who are much more likely to be Web connected than those using other products.”

Nigel Pendse, lead author The BI Survey 7 and The OLAP Report

“Robust reporting and interactive analysis have traditionally required multiple products. With the introduction of MicroStrategy 8, integrated reporting and analysis is available from a single Drag-n-Drop based easy-to-use web interface tailored specifically for the mainstream business user. MicroStrategy 8's intuitive WYSIWYG Report Design and Editing capabilities make it a strong option for organization's looking to deploy self-service based BI to the mainstream.”

Dan Vesset, Director of Data Warehousing and Information Access
IDC Research

“MicroStrategy 8 takes reporting and analysis integration yet another step further with a highly intuitive web interface designed specifically for the business user. With an easy to use, highly interactive BI interface, organizations can start simple and unlock more power as users need it. MicroStrategy’s ability to support the whole enterprise through a single BI infrastructure and adaptable interface makes it a strong option for organizations looking to standardize on a single BI product.”

Cindi Howson, President of ASK and author of Intelligent Enterprise’s BI Scorecard