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Delivering More BI with Less Effort
Self-Service Web Interface
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- Fully Interactive Web Interface: A wide range of controls gives business users the ability to manipulate, format and analyze any report without the need of IT. Individual columns can be selected quickly and drill, pivot and perform tasks on the fly.
- WYSIWYG Design and Edit of any Report at Runtime: Business users create and edit highly formatted reports using a zero-footprint WYSIWYG design paradigm that drastically shortens report development time.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- Limited Interactivity for End Users: Cognos end users—Consumer and Recipient roles—get a very static view of the reports. Report interaction is limited to a few actions, e.g. end users cannot sort by a column, change the format of the report, or pivot the columns and rows.
- No WYSIWYG Design of Reports at Runtime: Cognos Report Studio does not allow report designers to edit reports during runtime and immediately see formatting changes reflected in the data. This limitation requires many more roundtrips between design and run-time mode, increasing the time it takes to create a report.
Users Design & Format a MicroStrategy Report without IT Dependencies
Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards
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- Fully Integrated Dashboards: Dashboards are created using all reports and objects from MicroStrategy’s single metadata. Intelligence Server provides sophisticated processing, security, caching, and analytical capabilities.
- Highly Interactive Dynamic Dashboards: Dashboards provide high interactivity via selectors, controls, OLAP-enabled grids and graphs, multiple layers of analysis, automatic multi-panel filtering and advanced visualizations.
- Single and Pixel-Perfect Design Environment: Flash and DHTML dashboards are designed once using a single Pixel-Perfect, zero-footprint Web interface.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- Two Dashboarding Platforms: Cognos has two separate dashboarding products: Cognos BI and Cognos Now!, the former Celequest company. Cognos BI dashboards provide limited interactivity and support for flash. Cognos Now! is not integrated with the Cognos platform at the metadata and server level.
- Limited Interactivity among Dashboard Components: Dashboards components offer limited options to change content automatically via selectors, controls, OLAP enabled grids and graphs. They also lack multiple layers of analysis, automatic multi-panel filtering and advanced visualizations.
Users Gain Premium Insight from Highly Interactive, Content-Rich, Boardroom Quality Dashboards
Rapid Comprehension of Data through Advanced Visualizations
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- Out-of-the-Box Library of Advanced Visualizations: A comprehensive library of fully integrated advanced visualizations is provided for complex data analysis.
- Highly Interactive Visualizations: All visualizations have drilling capabilities and enable users to select data elements that filter out other areas of the dashboard.
- Extensible and Customizable Library: MicroStrategy customers can extend the advanced visualizations library by importing 3rd party visualizations. Advanced dashboard designers can edit or create their own visualizations or widgets.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- No Out-of-the-Box Advanced Visualizations: Cognos does not directly offer any advanced visualizations, therefore providing very limited visual capabilities to identify outliers in large volumes of data.
Microstrategy Advanced Visualizations Help Uncover Hidden Trends and Analyze Complex Data
Robust Enterprise Reporting
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- Real-Time WYSIWYG Report Design: Highly formatted documents are built using WYSIWYG report design and formatting using a zero-footprint web interface.
- Comprehensive Report Styles: Comprehensive report styles, from horizontal and vertical banded reports, such as invoices and statements, to zone-based reports, such as dashboards and scorecards.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- No Real-Time WYSIWYG Report Design: Cognos Report Studio does not offer report designers a way to edit and format report layout in a real-time WYSIWYG environment. Associated unnecessary iterations and design frustration lead to much higher design time.
- Limited Operational Reporting Support: Cognos Report Studio is not optimized for operational, hierarchical or banded reports such as invoices and statements.
Create Comprehensive, Interactive Reports in a Number Of Styles with Microstrategy Enterprise Reporting
Information Delivery and Proactive Notification
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- Personalized Report Bursting: A single report definition can burst personalized information to thousands of users, saving processing resources.
- Delivery of all Report Styles from a Unified Platform: Users can subscribe themselves and others to receive all reports available in the MicroStrategy environment in a wide range of output formats and devices.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- Limited Dynamic Distribution Lists: Cognos has very limited dynamic distribution list capabilities. Administrators have to define fixed distribution lists and cannot use conditions to dynamically build recipient lists.
- Non-Integrated User Interface for Defining Alerts: Cognos Event Studio is a standalone interface for alerts and event management that forces users to define alerts in a separate environment, limiting its adoption.
MicroStrategy Distribution Services Enables Business Users to Set Up Automated Information Distributions for Themselves and Others
Seamless Microsoft Office Integration
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- Create and Edit Reports in Microsoft Office: MicroStrategy delivers a complete reporting and analysis environment to Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook users. Users can access or edit existing reports or create new ones from within Microsoft Office applications.
- Formatting Persists after Data Updates: Microsoft Office formatting changes and logic created within Excel files are saved and preserved after automatic data updates.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- Limited Parameterization in Microsoft Office: Cognos’ Microsoft Office plug-ins offer limited prompting functionality. For example, Cognos’ Microsoft Office plug-in does not support the ability to prompt for what metrics and attributes to incorporate in the report, also referred as column prompts.
- Limited Visualization in Microsoft Office: Cognos’ Office plug-in does not offer Dynamic Dashboard technology (Flash) that could provide embedded visualizations and a more interactive experience.
MicroStrategy Brings Centralized Enterprise-Scale BI into Microsoft Office
