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Flexible Technology for Departmental to Enterprise BI
Seamless Migration from Departmental to Enterprise BI
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- Metadata and Data Layer De-coupled: MicroStrategy’s metadata abstraction layer allows companies to “re-point” the metadata to automatically access new data locations without disrupting reports or requiring redesign.
- Consolidate Disparate Departmental BI Applications: MicroStrategy’s metadata compatibility enables departments to incrementally migrate their business logic into a consolidated BI environment. MicroStrategy Object Manager helps consolidate disparate departmental BI applications by reconciling overlaps and conflicts.
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
- Inefficient Change Management: BO metadata is defined through an array of structures stored in multiple repositories. Changes in the underlying metadata cause reports to generally break, rendering them inoperable.
- Lack of Tools to Consolidate Disparate Departmental BI Applications: Despite the recent introduction of a Life Cycle Manager tool in the XI 3.1 release, BO does not automatically comprehensively check for dependencies when changes in metadata objects occur, given its inability to support metadata content across the entire product set.
MicroStrategy Technology Provides a Seamless Migration Path from Departmental BI to Enterprise BI
High Performance Multi-Source Data Access
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- Seamless Navigation Across Multiple Data Sources: MicroStrategy’s unified multi-dimensional business model allows companies to create a single logical view spanning multiple data sources, making it easy to add any new data sources. Users are able to seamlessly drill across multiple data sources.
- Smart Push-Down Architecture: MicroStrategy’s performs joins at the database layer thereby minimizing network traffic and leveraging the power of modern database engines. MicroStrategy further minimizes network traffic by moving the least amount of data to the most optimal database to query.
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
- Inefficient Multi-Source Data Access: A single BO Universe can only connect to a single data source. Universes can be "linked" in theory, but in practice it is generally avoided at scale given Universe size constraints. Key functionality is not supported in linked Universes, such as Universe Parameters, Contexts, Custom Hierarchies, etc.
MicroStrategy 9 Multi-source ROLAP Allows Data Environments to be Optimized for Performance and Cost
Rapid Departmental BI Application Development
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- No Need of an ETL Tool or Data Warehouse: MicroStrategy 9 provides easy access to multiple data sources without requiring a data warehouse. MicroStrategy can instantiate In-memory ROLAP cubes by pulling information from multiple sources, obviating the need of an ETL tool or a data warehouse.
- Graphical Architect and Automatic Data Detection: MicroStrategy’s graphical design interface makes it fast and easy to add new data sources and define business logic. MicroStrategy automatically detects data types from data sources and creates the entire business logic layer, speeding development.
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
- Requires ETL for Departmental BI: BO does not provide In-memory ROLAP cubes capability that would obviate the need of an ETL tool by accessing multiple sources of data and creating In-memory cubes for departmental application access.
- Inefficient Administration Across Departmental BI: BO does not provide a comprehensive command line administrative tool for high volume tasks, making administration across several departmental BI applications more time consuming.
Centralized and De-Centralized Administration
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- Flexible De-Centralized Administration: MicroStrategy allows user and application administration responsibilities to be distributed to business people within individual departments using a Web interface. This offloads administrative tasks from centralized IT personnel and gives departments the ability to have their own databases, metadata and BI applications within the same infrastructure as the enterprise BI environment.
- Synchronized BI Departmental Applications: MicroStrategy 9 Update Packages can automatically consolidate disparate development teams’ updates and changes.
SAP BusinessObjects XI 3.1
- Inefficient Consolidation of BI Departmental Applications: BO does not offer the ability to automatically consolidate updates to packages from disparate development teams. In addition administrators can easily break metadata integrity by erasing a filter or other metadata objects used inside reports, as there is no automatic integrity check before removing an object.
MicroStrategy Supports Distributed Governance Operational Models
