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Why MicroStrategy?
Why do companies and organizations look to MicroStrategy for best-in-class Mobile Intelligence and Business Intelligence? Following are the top reasons and how we are differentiated from other vendors.
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Easy to Use
Business people want fast and intuitive mobile apps and reporting applications that provide actionable insights into their operations. In a recent Gartner study, MicroStrategy was the top performer in the following key categories: Ease of Use for End Users, Ease of Use for Developers, Data Volume Support, Complex Interactive Reporting, and High Quality Portable Output.
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Fast to Install and Deploy
In less than one day, you can install and develop your first reports. We provide 200+ hours of online courseware, a Quick Start Guide, thousands of pages of documentation, a 24/7 online technical knowledge repository, and 60 days of email technical support...all at no charge.
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Large development community
Hundreds of engineers are dedicated to developing and fine-tuning the MicroStrategy Suite. In addition, application developers in Fortune 500 companies provide us with feedback to improve the usefulness of our products. Recommendations from this community of developers at the forefront of data warehousing, mobile app development, and reporting are highly valued at MicroStrategy.
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Quickly Develop and Easily Maintain your Mobile apps
All the infrastructure you need is included in the free MicroStrategy Suite, including security, data management, and sensor integration. No coding required! A point-and-click interface lets you easily customize and optimize your app for iOS & Android phones and tablets. Connect your data to maps, email, and more, accelerating the deployment of new apps, letting you stream updates via the MicroStrategy Mobile app platform.
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Extensive network of experienced implementation partners
For additional expertise or resources, an extensive worldwide network of resellers, consultants, and contractors can help you develop MicroStrategy-based reporting or mobile applications. Whether you're looking for a global implementation partner like Accenture, HP, Infosys, or Capgemini, or a small specialty BI practice, rest assured that there are many resources for your application development needs.
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Proven in thousands of real-world deployments
Thousands of companies already use the products in the MicroStrategy Suite for a wide variety of reporting, analytic applications, and mobile deployments. In fact, over 1,000,000 business people around the world use MicroStrategy Suite components to find the answers to their most pressing business questions.
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Supports both departmental and enterprise BI applications
You don't need separate products or technologies to support both small departmental and large enterprise BI. MicroStrategy can scale from the smallest reporting projects to the world's most advanced enterprise Business Intelligence and mobile apps. Best of all, by using MicroStrategy's metadata migration tools, you can grow and merge your departmental islands of BI into a consolidated enterprise BI infrastructure.
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Flexibility to add more named users and administration capabilities
MicroStrategy Suite is feature rich with capabilities to access multiple BI applications on mobile devices and on the Web, run reports, answer prompts, view data as grids or graphs, sort and drill into data, and export data into PDFs, Excel, or text files. Many projects won't require more capabilities than what MicroStrategy Suite already provides. But when you're ready to integrate with Microsoft Office, add more users, or need to monitor and maintain your environment, MicroStrategy offers a comprehensive suite of products to support the expansion of your BI environment.
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Increase the value of your apps with built-in advanced and predictive analytics
In addition to revealing what happened in your business, Mobile Intelligence and Business Intelligence software should help you understand why and predict what will happen next. Much more than a simple free tool, MicroStrategy Suite includes OLAP capabilities that allow you to drill into and interactively 'slice and dice' data for greater insights, along with dozens of predictive functions to show you what is likely to happen next.
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Dedicated to Mobile Intelligence and Business Intelligence
MicroStrategy Suite provides you with premium mobile app, dashboard, and reporting capabilities at no cost. We are dedicated to Mobile Intelligence and Business Intelligence software, without any of the distractions that face the conglomerate vendors in the market.
MicroStrategy Positioned in 'Leaders' Quadrant of Gartner's Latest Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms Report. The Evaluation is Based on Completeness of Vision and Ability to Execute. Read the Report »
MicroStrategy received an "Outstanding" product viability rating by Gartner for product score in use cases in its Critical Capabilities for Mobile BI report. Read the Report »
"MicroStrategy's new release (9.3) of Visual Insight provides self-service capabilities to add to this BI platform vendor's proven set of enterprise offerings"
Dr. Carsten Bange, Founder and CEO of BARC
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