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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 Decoupled: MicroStrategy’s metadata abstraction layer allows companies to “repoint” 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 business logic into a consolidated BI environment. MicroStrategy Object Manager helps consolidate disparate departmental BI applications by reconciling overlaps and conflicts.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- Inefficient Change Management: Cognos’s metadata is defined through projects that are deployed as packages. Changes in the project force packages to re-deploy, potentially rendering reports inoperable.
- Lack of Tools to Consolidate Disparate Departmental BI Applications: Cognos does not have a tool equivalent to MicroStrategy Object Manager to manage metadata deployments, and consolidate and reconcile disparate departmental BI applications.
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, 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.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- Inefficient Multi-Source Data Access: Cognos Virtual View Manager is the result of Cognos’ acquisition of Composite Software code base, has not been fully integrated into Cognos, and requires a separate server installation and repository. Cognos Virtual View Manager does not support temporary tables and is therefore unable to perform database-optimized push-down joins.
MicroStrategy 9 Multi-Source ROLAP Allows Data Environments to Be Optimized for Performance and Value
Rapid Departmental BI Application Development
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- No Need for 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 with data from multiple sources, obviating the need for 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.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- Requires ETL for Departmental BI: Cognos does not provide in-memory ROLAP cubes, so an additional ETL or data warehouse layer is necessary to access data from multiple sources.
- Inefficient Administration across Departmental BI: Cognos 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 enables web-based distribution of user and application administration responsibilities within departments. This offloads administrative tasks from centralized IT personnel and offers departments 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.
IBM Cognos 8.4
- Inefficient Consolidation of Departmental BI Applications: Cognos does not automatically consolidate updates to packages from disparate development teams. Also, administrators can easily break metadata integrity by erasing a filter or other metadata object used inside reports, as there is no automatic integrity check before removing an object.
MicroStrategy Supports Distributed Governance Operational Models
