MicroStrategy Report Services™ Quotes

21st Century Insurance Company
"We're impressed with the quality and stability of MicroStrategy's newest product, MicroStrategy Report Services. Its integration with the MicroStrategy platform allows us to reuse common metadata definitions and security features to rapidly create and distribute enterprise reports. This integration also inherits the scalability and ease of administration found in the proven MicroStrategy 7i architecture. We believe this addition to the MicroStrategy platform will allow us to support virtually all of our analytical data and reporting requirements across our enterprise."
- Brett Gourley, Sr. Project Mgr., 21st Century Insurance Company

Banco Espírito Santo
"We evaluated MicroStrategy Report Services and we're very excited about this new product due to its out-of-the-box ability to generate pixel-perfect reports. This allows us to distribute large volumes of critical business data in an easy to consume format to our executives, managers and large user community. Currently, the MicroStrategy platform enables our branches and segment units to track the performance of the entire company, optimize product assortment and make decisions that increase revenue and profitability."
- Artur Guterres, CIO, Banco Espírito Santo

Carl Warren and Company
"After test-driving MicroStrategy Report Services, we find significant enhancements for our internal needs as well as for our Fortune 500 customers using our mycarlwarren.com client extranet. Now our clients are able to view and retrieve precisely-formatted, boardroom quality reports directly through the Web for rapid distribution within their enterprise."
- Paul Park, Chief Technology Architect, Carl Warren and Company

The OLAP Report
"MicroStrategy is the first vendor to release a fully integrated formal reporting tool that provides traditional list reports, BI-style dashboards and interactive OLAP analyses, in any combination, all in a single module that uses the same infrastructure, secutiry, calculation engine and deployment options as the rest of MicroStrategy's product line. For many years, pundits have been predicting the convergence of enterprise reporting and BI, but this is the first product to deliver it."
- Nigel Pendse, author of The OLAP Report and The OLAP Survey

The Data Warehousing Institute
"MicroStrategy Report Services can deliver the full range of enterprise reports - from scorecards and dashboard to operational reports - because of its use of both banded and zone-based report layout."
- Wayne Eckerson, Dir. of Research, The Data Warehousing Institute

Forrester
"MicroStrategy customers should find Report Services very attractive in terms of cost, scalability and complimentary functionality. Organizations interested in standardizing on a single BI vendor for analytic and enterprise reporting should add MicroStrategy to the short list of candidate technologies for banded and freeform enterprise reporting."
- "No Longer Loathing Simplicity, MicroStrategy Enters the Enterprise Reporting Market Intelligently", Keith Gile, Forrester Analyst with Contributing Analyst: Philip Russom, October 31, 2003

The Gartner Group
"Robust reporting and the EBIS have historically remained technologically distinct. However, it is becoming clear that these two domains are quickly converging. This will result in a new or "next-generation" EBIS market, since EBIS is the larger of the two markets and EBIS vendors are driving much of the convergence. The gradual move toward convergence has been under way for some time. Accordingly, enterprises will be increasingly able to standardize on a single product or suite for both EBIS and robust reporting functionality. "
- Howard Dresner, Vice President, Distinguished Analyst

META Group
"Many enterprise IT organizations now prefer a comprehensive BI platform from a single vendor. With the release of Report Services, Microstrategy rounds out its BI platform with a scalable enterprise reporting solution"
- Kurt Schlegel, Program Director META Group

Ventana Research
"IT Organizations are now looking to cut costs by supporting fewer software products. Acceptable reporting solutions must now handle any and all kinds of reporting needs from traditional production reporting to business intelligence-related reporting. MicroStrategy's Report Services, which offers leading-edge integration of banded and 'zone-based' report layout approaches, combined with their existing BI modules on a unified architecture will raise the standard for comprehensive, integrated reporting platforms."
- Eric Rogge, VP and Research Director with Ventana Research

ASK
"MicroStrategy Report Services adds a new document format and page-layout design to the MicroStrategy 7i architecture that can deliver both production style reports and management reports, all with the same scalable architecture, security, and metadata found in MicroStrategy v7i. Since Report Services uses the same underlying services infrastructure as all other MicroStrategy engines (ad hoc ROLAP analysis, statistical analysis , cube analysis, and alerting), it will make it easy for clients to upgrade, unlike competitive tools that essentially require customers to start over. While providing users with a much sexier and more powerful document, MicroStrategy has nicely preserved its report interactivity such as outline, page view, drill-down in a seamless user experience from reporting to analysis."
- Cindi Howson, ASK

Capgemini
"True enterprise reporting requires a highly scalable platform to support large diverse user populations. By combining rich data access, complex formatting and the power of the MicroStrategy 7i architecture, MicroStrategy Report Services will allow our customers to easily deploy successful enterprise reporting capabilities to their users."
- Brian J. Queenin, VP, Global Leader - Information Management & Business Intelligence, Capgemini

IBM
"Combined with DB2, MicroStrategy Report Services will allow our joint customers to deploy pixel-perfect reporting applications across the enterprise. Our customers demand the mission-critical security, support and scalability that the MicroStrategy architecture provides."
- Karen Parrish, VP WW Business Intelligence Solutions, IBM Corporation

Hewlett-Packard
"With MicroStrategy Report Services, customers are now able to satisfy their reporting needs for all types of users with a single, unified BI platform. Combined with the highly scalable and reliable industry-standard HP ProLiant servers, the product can help businesses worldwide take advantage of the HP Adaptive Enterprise strategy by extending the value of reporting on an enterprise scale."
- Bruno Castejon, Worldwide Business Intelligence Solutions Director, Enterprise Systems Group, HP

Atlantic Intelligence
"With version 7.5, MicroStrategy rounds out their BI platform and will enable our customers to deliver information to more types of users than ever before. MicroStrategy Report Services looks like the perfect complement to their existing platform. We find their product easy to use for departmental applications while retaining scalability for enterprise-wide deployments."
- Brook Detterman, President, Atlantic Intelligence

iOLAP
"After testing [MicroStrategy] Report Services with our customers, we believe MicroStrategy offers the most flexible and scalable report writing capabilities on the market. MicroStrategy customers can now create highly formatted reports in both print and electronic forms, and disseminate them across the enterprise."
- Chris Jordan, Senior Partner, iOLAP

Claraview
"When we tested the product, we found that MicroStrategy Report Services deployed easily over the Internet without downloads and delivered pixel-perfect and print-perfect reporting. The interface will be easy to use for all of our customers to use and allows us to offer them completely flexible layout and formatting for their business reporting needs."
- Justin Langseth, CTO & Co-Founder, Claraview

Anexinet
"We are glad we had the opportunity to preview MicroStrategy Report Services. Unlike other enterprise reporting products, MicroStrategy Report Services enables us to offer our customers scorecards, managed metrics and banded reports out-of-box. For the IT professional, MicroStrategy Report Services is integrated into the MicroStrategy BI Platform enabling centralized administration for even the largest applications."
- Paul Olimpo, Assistant Director of Business Intelligence, Anexinet

Thinkfast Consulting
"Compared to other enterprise reporting products, we found that MicroStrategy Report Services offered a truly flexible design interface to our customers. Companies who choose MicroStrategy Report Services can design boardroom quality reports by simply dragging-and-dropping report components. We were particularly impressed with the way MicroStrategy has integrated both traditional banded report writing for optimized operational reporting, and zone-based report design that is ideally suited for scorecards and dashboards."
- Mark Cawi, Director, MicroStrategy Practice, ThinkFast Consulting