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MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Software

Make more informed decisions with timely, data-driven answers to your business questions. MicroStrategy Business Intelligence software lets you transform your data into attractive and easy-to-understand dashboards and reports for greater insights to:

  • Enhance cost-efficiency and productivity
  • Build stronger customer relationships
  • Optimize revenue-generating strategies
  • Monitor trends and discover anomalies
  • Forecast business opportunities

MicroStrategy BI software runs against data stored in data warehouses, operational databases, ERP systems like SAP and Oracle, and MDX cubes like Microsoft Analysis Services, SAP BW, Essbase, and TM1.

About MicroStrategy 9

MicroStrategy 9 is a fully integrated BI platform that makes Business Intelligence faster, easier, and more user-friendly. Recent enhancements include:

  • Enhanced Mobile Capabilities for the iPhone and iPad – NEW transactions and multimedia capabilities expand the potential for mobile apps alongside Business Intelligence, multi-tasking, alerting, information workflow support, improved collaboration, and data visualizations; plus NEW security features for the iPad and iPhone. See the new MicroStrategy Mobile »
  • Transaction Services – NEW product addition to the MicroStrategy platform enables users to initiate actions and transactions from a mobile device
  • Visual Insight – NEW features within MicroStrategy Report Services provide a whole new way of doing Business Intelligence that will change the way you see your data; your first data visualization can be built in less than 30 minutes; plus NEW capabilities for iPad. Explore MicroStrategy Visual Insight »
  • Faster Performance – in-memory BI acceleration technology, enhanced navigation and search, parallel app loading, and automatic diagnostic checks. Intelligence Cubes now feature dynamic sourcing enhancements, MDX, and better performance through incremental fetch and more governance.
  • Faster, Richer Dashboard Experience – 3x more data, 2x faster, plus new customized workflow capabilities and enhanced OLAP functionality on Flash dashboards
  • Faster Start-up for New BI Apps – data import capabilities let users publish their own data into the BI system, predesigned mobile and dashboard app templates enable fast prototyping, and portable document capabilities allow dashboards to be moved between applications
  • Expanded Geo-mapping Capabilities – enhanced mapping visualizations for dashboards in iPad, iPhone, and MicroStrategy Web with Google Maps and out-of-the-box integration with ESRI
  • Single Universal Information Gateway – multi-dimensional, relational and web services data sources abstracted into a single metadata layer; MicroStrategy MultiSource Option enables relational and MDX data within the same grid or graph
  • Native Support for Multidimensional Data Sources – now with direct access to IBM Cognos TM1 enterprise planning software
  • Rapid Application Development and Deployment – easier to develop with DashboardApps, easier to architect with auto-modeling heuristics, and easier to prototype with reusable dashboard designs
  • Automated Maintenance – upload performance-related information automatically with Health Center, enabling MicroStrategy Technical Support to analyze and recommend performance improvements

The MicroStrategy 9 Platform is uniquely engineered for enterprise BI performance and scale. It also serves the rapidly changing business needs of smaller, departmental BI applications. MicroStrategy 9 provides a seamless path to migrate workgroup and departmental BI applications into an integrated enterprise BI operation.

World-class Business Intelligence Products


Web-based Reporting Tool End-user Self Service Microsoft Office Interface Mobile Delivery Dashboards and Scorecards Alerting and Narrowcasting Unified BI Architecture Performance Enhancement Data Validation Enterprise Monitoring Change Management Automated Management Rich Design Environment Centralized Metadata Builder Custom Interface and Developer Library Multiple Data Source Access Transactional Apps SAP BW Microsoft Analysis Services

Why MicroStrategy?

More than one million people worldwide and thousands of leading companies across all industries use MicroStrategy Business Intelligence software every day for better business decisions.

Gartner: MicroStrategy Positioned in Leader's Quadrant in Latest Magic Quadrant for BI Platforms
The BI Survey 9

The BI Survey 9: "MicroStrategy achieved the highest KPI scores overall across 23 products surveyed in The BI Survey 9. In my view, this is indicative of MicroStrategy's focus on continuing to broaden and improve its BI platform and the fact that MicroStrategy has resisted the temptation to build a technology portfolio through acquisitions."
— Barney Finucane, lead author of The BI Survey 9

Ventana Research: “MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 introduces enhanced performance and power to deliver interactive analytics that are easily architected, assembled, and deployed via dashboards and new forms of information applications.” 
—Mark Smith, CEO and EVP, Ventana Research

TDWI: “In today’s increasingly competitive business environment, the ability to quickly deploy new applications is critical.  I am impressed with MicroStrategy's auto-modeling heuristics, which make project setup far easier."
—Wayne Eckerson, Director, The Data Warehousing Institute

BIScorecard: “MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 brings improvements to its in-memory algorithms that improve both real time query performance, load times to OLAP caches, and memory required. While MicroStrategy 9 had excellent data scalability, the latest enhancements allow for more user scalability, even with complex analytic queries.”
—Cindi Howson, Founder, BIScorecard

Business Intelligence Customer Spotlights

Con-way Freight
Con-way Freight
Global Transportation and Supply Chain Management Services Leader Runs Performance Management Applications for Operational Reporting, Business Monitoring, and Forecasting in Sales, Operations, and Finance

"Con-way is looking forward to MicroStrategy’s new Health Center product that can provide our administrators peace of mind knowing that system problems can be automatically identified and resolution information would be readily available. The new automated administrative features in MicroStrategy’s latest release will enable our IT personnel to work more efficiently, saving valuable time and resources."
–Sean Devine, Vice President Pricing and Engineering of Con-way Freight
Lowe's
Lowe's Companies
Leading North American Home Improvement Retailer Employs BI Center of Excellence to Manage Inventory, Improve Margins, Analyze Markets, and Identify Sales Opportunities

"The enhanced performance in MicroStrategy 9 Release 2 will allow us to distribute more information to our BI user population in much less time. In our recent tests, we saw a 30% performance improvement for both in-memory BI and our most frequently used dashboard."
–Joyce Vonada, SVP IT Business Solutions, Lowe’s Companies
eBay
eBay
Global Online Marketplace Leader Analyzes Ongoing Performance of the Many Different Categories of Products and Services for Sale on its Web Sites. On Any Given Day, There Are More Than 16 Million Items Listed On eBay Across 27,000 Categories.

"We look forward to using MicroStrategy 9 In-memory ROLAP technology to help us improve our user experience with faster response times and to take unnecessary pressure off our Teradata system."
–Mark Govostes, Manager of BI Architecture at eBay
Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Leading Global Provider of Online Products and Services Analyzes Sales, Advertising, and Transactions via Information Dashboards

"We were amazed at how much information we could consolidate into one of MicroStrategy's new dashboards. Every day, our executives rely on our information dashboards for a snapshot of our business performance."
–Prashanth Narella, Engineering Manager, Data Services at Yahoo! Inc.

AmerisourceBergen
AmerisourceBergen
Thousands of Users at Leading Pharmaceutical Services Company Report and Analyze Sales, Suppliers, Customers, Supply Chain Management, Finance, and Other Critical Areas in Large Database Environments with Real-Time Analytics
Campbell Soup Company
Leading Global Manufacturer and Marketer of Branded Convenience Food Products Leverages MicroStrategy Reporting for Sales, Finance, Customer Service and Marketing Applications
Comcast
Comcast
Leading U.S. Cable Services Provider Uses Management Level Reporting to Improve Operational Efficiencies and Employee Productivity
Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands
Leading Global Quick Service Restaurant Company Analyzes Terabytes of Transactional, Product, Market and Customer Data to Uncover Critical Business Insight Aimed at Improving Promotions, Pricing, and Product Offerings, and Strengthening Customer Relationships