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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 IT support. Individual columns can be selected quickly, and drill, pivot and perform tasks can be done 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.
Microsoft
- Lacks User Report Authoring Fully Interactive Web Interface: Microsoft lacks a user-friendly web authoring environment, mainly due to Microsoft’s focus on Excel 2007 as its user front end. Most report design tasks must be performed by IT using desktop programming environments.
- Difficult, IT-intensive Report Design and Formatting: Microsoft business users cannot create or edit highly formatted reports. Microsoft’s design environment forces the designer to run reports before viewing formatting. This inefficient design process requires more IT effort and time, increasing costs and forcing business users to depend on IT to fulfill requests.
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. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides its 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.
Microsoft
- Dashboards Require Redesign: Microsoft dashboards require IT to create most of the dashboards logic from scratch, increasing design time.
- Limited Analysis Capabilities: Microsoft offers a narrower and less interactive range of graphics and data visualizations. Microsoft users cannot automatically interact to drill anywhere from dashboard grids and graphs.
- Limited Environment: Microsoft advocates using Microsoft SharePoint and Internet Explorer to create and deploy dashboards. Microsoft end users cannot email standalone Flash dashboard files for fast offline analysis.
MicroStrategy 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.
Microsoft
- Limited Visualizations - Fewer and Less Interactive: Microsoft offers a small number of visualizations whose limitations prevent users from easily and fully analyzing data trends. Microsoft Strategy Maps require Microsoft Visio desktop tool to create and view interactively. Microsoft Heat Maps do not offer automatic interactive drilling.
- Need to Create Custom Visualizations from Scratch: Since Microsoft offers few and limited visualizations, IT programmers must build custom visualizations from scratch.
MicroStrategy Advanced Visualizations Help Uncover Hidden Trends and Analyze Complex Data
Robust Enterprise Reporting
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- Interactivity On Any Report: Formatted documents are also highly interactive, providing drilling, in-place analysis, and pivoting capabilities within the document.
- Real-Time WYSIWYG Report Design: Highly formatted documents are built using WYSIWYG report design and formatting over a zero-footprint Web interface.
- Comprehensive Report Styles: Users can choose from a wide variety of report styles, from horizontal and vertical banded reports such as invoices and statements, to zone-based reports such as dashboards and scorecards.
Microsoft
- Static Reports: Microsoft's operational reports lack automatic analysis capabilities such as drilling, in-place analysis, and pivoting capabilities within the document.
- Long Time to Value: Professional IT staff need to spend a long time building highly formatted documents due to lack of flexible and WYSIWYG report design and formatting over a zero-footprint Web interface.
- Poor Microsoft Integration: Leading industry analysts consistently point to Microsoft’s poor Office integration as compared to leading BI vendors. Microsoft’s export to Word, Outlook and PowerPoint integration lags behind other BI vendors.
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 or co-workers to receive all reports available in the MicroStrategy environment on a wide range of output devices.
- Single Administration Point for All Users: MicroStrategy administrators monitor and administer all users from a single location and a single metadata.
Microsoft
- Limited Personalized Report Bursting: Microsoft IT professionals must configure each report to enable user subscription capability. This increases IT efforts and limits end users from automatically being able to sign up for reports.
- Multiple Administration Points: Microsoft administrators must administer users in multiple locations, as well as synchronize the administration in these locations.
MicroStrategy Distribution Services Enables Business Users to Set Up Automated Information Distributions for Themselves and Co-workers
Seamless Microsoft Office Integration
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- Create New and Edit Reports on Microsoft Office: MicroStrategy delivers the complete reporting and analysis environment to Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook users. Users are able to 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.
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- Cannot Create New Reports: Microsoft end users cannot access report models and create reports from scratch using reusable metadata through Excel 2007.
- Poor Integration: Microsoft lags behind leading BI vendors' Office integration capabilities, particularly outside of Excel 2007. Users experience static content when exporting to Word and PowerPoint. Users often lose all report formatting when exporting ProClarity based reports to Excel.
MicroStrategy Brings Centralized Enterprise-Scale BI Into Microsoft Office
