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Delivering More BI with Less Effort
Self-Service Web Interface
MicroStrategy 9
- 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.
- Creation of Report Objects: Users can create report objects such as filters, prompts, derived elements and thresholds, all of which can be shared.
- Live WYSIWYG Report Design and Edit: Business users create and edit highly formatted reports using a zero-footprint WYSIWYG design paradigm that drastically shortens report development time.
OBIEE Plus
- Static and Limited Web Interface: Answers users have limited interactivity with the data. In order to pivot columns and rows, users are likely to go through awkward design workflows and switch to the Table View. Users cannot interact with the grids on dashboards.
- Creation of Report Objects: Answers users cannot create report objects such as filters, prompts and derived elements and use them to create reports in BI Publisher.
- No Live WYSIWYG Report Design and Edit: BI Answers and BI Interactive Dashboards do not provide a WYSIWYG environment. Users cannot edit dashboards and reports layout while viewing the results.
Users Design & Format a MicroStrategy Report without IT Dependencies
Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards
MicroStrategy 9
- Highly Interactive Dynamic Dashboards: Dashboards provide high interactivity via selectors, controls, OLAP-enabled grids, 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 Pixel-Perfect, zero-footprint Web interface allowing freeform layout. Dashboard templates are reusable and provide starting points with sophisticated formatting.
- Dashboard Output Caching for High Performance: Pre-calculated dashboards are cached for instant viewing in HTML, PDF, Excel, and Flash.
OBIEE Plus
- Limited Interactivity on Dashboards: Interactive Dashboards do not provide selectors, controls, OLAP-enabled grids, automatic multi-panel filtering and advanced visualizations for high interactivity.
- Limited Design Environment: Dashboard designers do not have a WYSIWYG, pixel-perfect design environment. Designers cannot control the final output of a dashboard or reuse templates to speed up design time.
- No Dashboard Output Caching: OBIEE Plus offers limited support for a caching layer for dashboards output. Dashboards must be recalculated and rebuilt every time users run them.
Users Gain Premium Insight from Highly Interactive, Content-Rich, Boardroom Quality Dashboards
Rapid Comprehension of Data through Advanced Visualizations
MicroStrategy 9
- 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.
OBIEE Plus
- No Library of Advanced Visualizations: OBIEE Plus does not offer an out-of-the-box library of advanced visualizations for complex data analysis.
- No Interactive Visualizations: OBIEE Plus does not provide interactive visualizations where users can drill, filter and interact with the data for investigative analysis.
- No Extensible or Customizable Library: OBIEE Plus Interactive Dashboards do not provide an extensible and customizable library of advanced visualizations.
MicroStrategy Advanced Visualizations Help Uncover Hidden Trends and Analyze Complex Data
Robust Enterprise Reporting
MicroStrategy 9
- Fully Integrated Reporting Solution: MicroStrategy Report Services leverages the unified and single BI architecture by using the same metadata, same server and same interactive Web interface.
- Interactivity in all Reports: 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 using a zero-footprint Web interface.
OBIEE Plus
- Limited Integration and Metadata Reusability: BI Publisher has its own metadata, server and security to set up and maintain. BI Server metadata objects cannot be reused in BI Publisher documents.
- Static and Limited View of Data: BI Publisher documents are static and do not provide drilling, in-place analysis, and pivoting capabilities.
- No Real-Time WYSIWYG Report Design: Document designers rely on a limited Web design interface with no WYSIWYG report design or Microsoft Word plug-in to create document templates.
Create Comprehensive, Interactive Reports in a Number of Styles with MicroStrategy Enterprise Reporting
Information Delivery and Proactive Notification
MicroStrategy 9
- 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.
- Single Administration Point for all Users: MicroStrategy administrators monitor and administer all users from a single location and a single metadata.
OBIEE Plus
- Overlapping Delivering Technologies: OBIEE Plus has Oracle BI Publisher, Oracle Briefing Books and Oracle BI Delivers, three overlapping products with separate environments to maintain.
- Limited Delivery of Report Styles: Oracle Delivers users cannot subscribe to receive Oracle Interactive Dashboards or Oracle BI Publisher documents.
- Limited Offline View of Interactive Dashboards: Interactive Dashboards require a thick client for offline dashboard viewing. BI Briefing Books consume high system resources and often require hardware upgrades.
- Multiple Administration Points: Administrators require multiple administration tools to monitor the usage of both delivery products.
MicroStrategy Distribution Services Enables Business Users to Set Up Automated Information Distributions for Themselves and Others
Seamless Microsoft Office Integration
MicroStrategy 9
- 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.
OBIEE Plus
- Multiple Overlapping Microsoft Office Add-Ins: Oracle has three overlapping Microsoft add-in products with different levels of integration and functionality, all legacies from acquired products.
- Users Cannot Create or Edit Reports: Users of any of the three Excel add-in products cannot create new reports, edit existing or save changes into the Oracle BI Server metadata.
- Formatting and Logic Lost after Data Updates: Formatting applied to Oracle BI Answers reports is not exported to Excel. Formatting and logic created within Excel is lost and not saved back into the BI Server metadata.
MicroStrategy Brings Centralized Enterprise-Scale BI into Microsoft Office
