Legal Notice
MicroStrategy does not guarantee the accuracy of any information presented in this document, and there is no commitment, express or implied, on the part of MicroStrategy to update or otherwise amend this document. The furnishing of this document does not provide any license to patents, trademarks, copyrights or other intellectual property rights owned or held by MicroStrategy.
Copyright Information
All Contents Copyright © 2010 MicroStrategy Incorporated.
All Rights Reserved.
Please click the link to agree to the above terms and continue with the QuickTour. AGREE »
Fast and Intuitive User Experience
User-Friendly Interface
MicroStrategy 9
- Intuitive and Familiar Paradigms: The MicroStrategy Web interface leverages many familiar user-friendly paradigms, including folder-tree navigation, ribbon toolbars, accordion controls, control-click multi-select, 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 and values, column-level headers and values, metric headers and values, subtotal headers and values, custom groups, consolidation, and reports.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- Different User Interfaces or “Studios”: Cognos forces users to learn different end user interfaces—“Studios”—lacking consistency in functional paradigms. These UI inconsistencies increase training requirements and decrease user adoption for BI applications that require both reporting and analysis.
- Limited Personalized Web Reporting Interface: Cognos does not offer casual users or consumers intuitive Excel-like report interaction over the web, such as the ability to resize and lock column and row headers, or perform simple custom data formatting.
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.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- Extreme AJAX Web interface: Cognos end-users get static reports only, can't change format, can't pivot, can't sort by, can edit reports on the fly. With Report Studio, and its dependence on ActiveX, Cognos report designers are forced to use Internet Explorer.
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 in 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 the user has permission to see. Once the report is run, only the metrics and attributes that the user has permission to see will be displayed to the user.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- No Column Prompting Capabilities: Cognos 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 for User Roles: Some report personalization has to be accomplished in Cognos by bringing all data into the report and hiding columns with cumbersome 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 metric comparisons.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- No Support for Apple iPhone: Cognos Go! Mobile does not provide support for the iPhone.
- Limited Mobile BI Interactivity: Cognos Go! 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 memory and bandwidth usage on the mobile device.
With MicroStrategy’s “Information Radar”, Organizations Receive Data from Multiple Sources in One Report
