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Delivering More BI with Less Effort

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Efficient Architecture: More BI with Less IT Effort

MicroStrategy 9

  • Fewer IT Personnel Delivering for More Users: MicroStrategy technology requires far fewer IT personnel for a given amount of BI users because its metadata is easier to maintain and because end users have more self-service capabilities, offloading work from IT staff.
  • Dynamic Report Personalization: MicroStrategy object prompts allow users to choose from all reporting, analysis, and business logic objects to author their own reports at run time. This reduces user dependency on IT and the number of reports for IT to maintain.
  • Automatic Multi-source Drill Anywhere: MicroStrategy business users can automatically drill anywhere to any data source without IT hard coding.

Three-Year Cost of Ownership is Dominated by IT Personnel Costs

Note: The figure is based on over 300 interviews conducted across numerous platforms, presented in composite form. Source: IDC, 2007

SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1

  • More IT Personnel Delivering to Fewer Users: BO technology requires far more IT personnel for a given amount of BI users because its report developers cannot reuse the metadata they create across reports and thus must create multiple one-off reports and objects.
  • Limited Dynamic Report Personalization: BO does not provide on-the-fly hierarchical, object or column prompts such as selection of attributes, metrics, and filters. This causes an unnecessary number of reports to be created and maintained for end users.
  • IT Hand Coded Drill Anywhere: BO does not provide automatic drill anywhere, drilling across hierarchies require IT hard coding to report destination.

MicroStrategy is Recognized for its Ability to Support More Users with Fewer IT Administrators

Source: A leading industry analyst firm’s survey of 480 customers, January 2009
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