1. What is MicroStrategy Administrator?
MicroStrategy Administrator™ is a powerful suite of applications that gives you a complete environment for developing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining small-, medium-, and enterprise-scale systems.
2. What does MicroStrategy Administrator allow administrators to do?
MicroStrategy Administrator lets system administrators manage and administer a business intelligence environment, at low cost and risk, quickly and efficiently.
3. What are the benefits of using MicroStrategy Administrator?
System Administrators gain accurate information regarding system usage and performance, and can tune the business intelligence environment based on this insight. Full life cycle project management, from development, through test, to production systems, is made possible in an easy-to-use interface.
4. Does MicroStrategy Administrator contain more than one application?
Yes. MicroStrategy Administrator contains three applications to cater for different administrative aspects. They are:
- Enterprise Manager, which gives important insight into system usage that can be used to optimize performance
- Object Manager, which provides full life-cycle project management for business intelligence applications
- Command Manager, which enables easy system administration using text-based commands and scripts
5. Do I pay for these applications separately?
No. The price you pay for MicroStrategy Administrator includes all three applications.
6. How long does it take to get MicroStrategy Administrator up and running?
MicroStrategy Administrator installs in minutes, and automatically presents a list of available MicroStrategy Intelligence Servers. Within an hour, the installation and setup are completed.
7. How does MicroStrategy Administrator integrate with the rest of the MicroStrategy platform?
MicroStrategy Administrator contains user-friendly graphical interfaces and command line capabilities that centrally maintain any number of remote business intelligence environments. All the MicroStrategy Administrator applications utilize MicroStrategy Intelligence Server fully; no connections to the database are needed on administrator machines.
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8. What are the minimum requirements for MicroStrategy Administrator?
Minimum requirements are a computer with at least a 266MHZ Pentium II CPU, 64MB of RAM and 1GB of hard disk.
9. Is MicroStrategy Administrator available in other languages?
MicroStrategy Administrator is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Korean, Italian, Swedish, Japanese, and Portuguese.