MicroStrategy Suite

MicroStrategy Suite users have 24/7 free access to online support, as well as product manuals, readme files, and release notes. Additionally, upon receiving your MicroStrategy Suite license, and for a period of 60 days, one named support liaison from your company will be able to contact MicroStrategy Technical Support by email. For details, go to Learn More.

MicroStrategy Suite users have 24/7 free access to 200+ hours of online training, as well as the MicroStrategy Forum where you can pose questions, share implementation experiences, and exchange best practices and valuable tips. Additionally, MicroStrategy's interface is intuitive and easy for even the most novice users. Instructor-led training is available for an additional fee and may be useful for IT staff and more advanced users, depending on their experience with BI software, IT staff and more advanced users may wish to build on their knowledge set with live, instructor-led courses and certifications. A perennial education pass costs $3,300/user per year and includes unlimited instructor-led courses.

Licenses of the MicroStrategy Suite are perpetual - there is no time restriction. Please make sure you activate your software within 30 days of installation, as prompted during installation, in order to safeguard your perpetual license.

The MicroStrategy platform runs on Windows®, UNIX®, and Linux® operating systems. MicroStrategy is optimized for all major database platforms, Web servers, and application servers. For a complete list of supported and certified environments for MicroStrategy Suite and its components, see the Readme and Release Notes documentation included in the suite. Also see the MicroStrategy Suite Quick Start Guide.

The MicroStrategy Suite is easy to install, and you can develop and deploy your first reports in less than a day. Email support for 60 days, Online support, online training, a Quick Start Guide, and extensive documentation are designed to ensure rapid and successful deployment.

The MicroStrategy Suite requires minimal IT maintenance. MicroStrategy customers are able to support enterprise-class BI applications that serve thousands of users with only a handful of dedicated BI staff. Low IT overhead is achieved with MicroStrategy's administration capabilities and centralized metadata, and the self-service design of MicroStrategy's intuitive Web interface, as well as the "Build Once, Deploy Anywhere" ease and simplicity for Mobile apps.

Beyond 10 users, you must first purchase Technical Support. See What You Can Add On for more details. If you require anything additional to the MicroStrategy Suite, contact us at an office near you, or chat online via the "Live Chat" on our site during standard business hours (8:30 AM - 5:30 PM U.S. Eastern Time).

The MicroStrategy Suite enables state-of-the-art departmental reporting applications across all functional areas in all industries. With the MicroStrategy Suite, you will be able to quickly develop and deliver interactive operational and analytical reports that display tabular grids and beautiful graphs from your data, taking advantage of built-in analytics, visualization capabilities, and design-quality formatting. Furthermore, you will be able to consolidate all of these powerful capabilities through pixel-perfect dashboards. MicroStrategy Suite will also allow you to gain quick and deep insight from your data with highly compelling and interactive visualizations via self-service data exploration.

Virtually any application that your business needs can be designed and run with MicroStrategy Suite. For examples of the kinds of Mobile BI apps possible, visit our Mobile App Gallery. The MicroStrategy Suite leverages all three core capabilities of mobile applications: Business Intelligence, Transactions, and Multimedia.

MicroStrategy's Desktop and Web interfaces can be displayed in English, Spanish, German, French, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Swedish, Portuguese, Chinese, Danish and Dutch. Users can personalize their view further, specifying how numbers and dates are formatted and which international character set should be applied to their reports. Additionally, MicroStrategy enables the concurrent deployment of a single application in multiple languages. This ensures that business users can view MicroStrategy interfaces, as well as their own reports, metrics, attributes, and data - essential business information - in their own language. On a related note, MicroStrategy also enables users to customize further the look and feel of the Web and Mobile interface application, changing color themes and navigation displays according to their preferences.

The MicroStrategy architecture is designed for application integration and scale. Departmental BI applications can be created and integrated into an enterprise-wide BI application using MicroStrategy. MicroStrategy's single shared metadata will contain all reports and underlying reporting objects, ensuring one version of the truth, as you grow and merge your departmental BI applications into a consolidated enterprise BI solution. Departments and workgroups will continue to have independent control over their reports within the enterprise BI environment.

Yes, MicroStrategy Suite can be installed on a server with multiple processors and multiple cores. But unless you have upgraded by purchasing Technical Support, your MicroStrategy Suite software has an affinity to a single core. See What You Can Add On for more details.

Contact a MicroStrategy representative at an office near you or chat online via the "Live Chat" on our site during standard business hours (8:30 AM - 5:30 PM U.S. Eastern Time).

Yes, you will have access to subsequent versions of MicroStrategy Suite via MicroStrategy's Resource Center at no charge. Follow steps to download MicroStrategy Suite via the Download button above in order to access the latest License Key.

There is no required purchase of Technical Support. However, access to service packs and hot fixes is only available to fully supported, paying MicroStrategy customers for all of the products they have licensed via MicroStrategy's Download Site. To become a fully supported, paying MicroStrategy customer, contact us at an office near you.

If you are upgrading your MicroStrategy software, please refer to the MicroStrategy Upgrade Guide included with your MicroStrategy documentation.

Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Tree Regression, Decision Trees, Association Rules Models, and Time Series Models - as well as all of MicroStrategy's data mining and analytic functions - are included free of charge with MicroStrategy Suite.

Both offerings are free, but there are key differences. MicroStrategy Suite includes free, perpetual licenses of MicroStrategy software available for download in quantities appropriate to let your department start building and using reports quickly and easily.

MicroStrategy's Evaluation Edition includes all MicroStrategy products, but is a limited to a 30-day trial period. In July 2009, Evaluation Edition was also made available as a "virtual appliance" download, which differs as shown below.

* Please note that MicroStrategy Desktop and MicroStrategy Architect run on the Windows® operating system.

** The Evaluation Edition "virtual appliance" can be downloaded on any Windows or Linux operating system capable of running VMware Player or VMware Server or any other VMware software that is capable of running a virtual appliance. The virtual operating system on which the MicroStrategy products run is RedHat Linux