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Fast and Intuitive User Experience
User-Friendly Interface
MicroStrategy 9
- Intuitive and Familiar Paradigms: MicroStrategy Web interface leverages many familiar, user-friendly paradigms, including folder-tree navigation, ribbon toolbars, accordion controls, control-click multi-select capabilities, and context-sensitive right-click actions.
- Personalized Web Reporting Interface: MicroStrategy Web allows users to format reports and save custom format styles. These include row-level headers, row-level values, column-level headers, column-level values, metric headers, metric values, subtotal headers, subtotal values, custom groups, consolidation, and reports.
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
- Different User Interfaces or "Report Panels": BO forces users to get acquainted to different end user interfaces or "Report Panels" lacking consistency in functional paradigms. These inconsistencies in the user interface increase training requirements and decrease user adoption for BI applications that require a combination of reporting and analysis.
- Limited Personalized Web Reporting Interface: BO does not offer casual users or consumers with intuitive Excel like interaction with reports over the Web, such as enabling users to resize and lock column and row headers, and perform simple custom formatting on the data.
Design & Format a MicroStrategy Report Using Familiar, Microsoft® Office-like Interface
Instant Response to User Actions
MicroStrategy 9
- Extreme AJAX Web interface: The MicroStrategy Web architecture provides high performance with an Extreme AJAX model, shifting processing from the Web server to the web browser—all major web browsers, in fact. By spreading the processing workload, the user is given a much more responsive and interactive Web experience while still preserving a true zero-footprint Web interface.
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
- Extreme AJAX Web interface: Crystal Reports end users get static reports only, and they cannot change formats, pivot, sort by, or edit reports on the fly. BO provides AJAX functionality for power users and report developers but not for end users.
MicroStrategy Web Gives Users a Much More Responsive and Interactive Web Experience
Dynamic Report Personalization
MicroStrategy 9
- Comprehensive Prompting Capabilities: A single report can automatically support hundreds of possible report variations. Advanced report parameters, like object and hierarchy prompts, allow users to pick any business attributes and KPIs to include in the report. Users can save prompt answers as part of their profiles.
- Personalized Reports Tailored to User Roles: When a user runs a prompted report, dashboard or document, the user can only select prompt answers that he has permission to see. In a similar way, when running a report, only the metrics and attributes that the user has permission to see will be displayed to the user.
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
- No Column Prompting Capabilities: BO offers limited options for parameterized reports. Object or column prompts such as selection of attributes, metrics, and filters on-the-fly are not supported. This causes an unnecessary number of reports to be created and maintained for end users.
- Limited Personalization of Reports: Some report personalization has to be accomplished in BO by bringing all possible data to the report, in the form of a BO microcube or Crystal file and hiding columns with extensive formatting logic on each report.
MicroStrategy’s Report Personalization Dramatically Reduces the Number of Reports Needed
Highly Interactive Mobile BI Experience
MicroStrategy 9
- Mobile Ready Reports and Dashboards: MicroStrategy allows users to run reports and dashboards directly on their BlackBerry and iPhone smart phones. Because reports and dashboards in the BI application do not have to be re-authored for the mobile device, minimal additional IT investment is required for mobile deployment.
- Fully Interactive Mobile BI Experience: Reports are cached directly on the BlackBerry for fast, offline viewing. Reports are fully interactive; data can be sliced and sorted; and columns can be locked, resized, and reordered for effective comparisons of metrics.
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
- Reports design by device: Reports and analysis have to be pre-configured for specific mobile device types, negating the "design once deploy many" concept.
- Limited Mobile BI Interactivity: BO Mobile provides limited report manipulation and personalization. It does not offer the ability to sort, page-by, or pivot data inside reports. There are also limited controls to govern the use of memory and bandwidth in the mobile device.
With MicroStrategy’s “Information Radar”, Organizations Receive Data from Multiple Sources in One Report
