High-volume, Low-Cost Information Dissemination

Support 10,000s of users and 100,000s of reports and dashboards per day. MicroStrategy Distribution Services ensures relevant business insight is delivered to all users including employees, partners and customers.

More BI, Fewer Servers

Avoid costly database upgrades to accommodate peak hour traffic by pushing large amounts of routine BI activity to off-peak hours. For the IT/BI professional, MicroStrategy Distribution Services offers a new mode of achieving high-efficiency operations where reports and dashboards can be scheduled to run overnight thereby freeing up expensive database resources and BI servers.

Lower the Total Cost of BI

Off-load administrative subscription creation and management to users, giving administrators and system managers more time to spend developing reports and new BI applications. With MicroStrategy 9, business users can personalize their distributions by freely selecting:

• Distribution Format: HTML, Flash, PDF, CSV, Plaintext, or Excel
• Distribution End-point: Email, Networked Printers, File Server (including Portals and PCs), or their MicroStrategy Report Archive

Proactive Information Dissemination

Spend less time looking for data and running reports in an ad-hoc fashion. MicroStrategy Distribution Services offers a system that allows business users to be more efficient in their day-to-day work. With MicroStrategy Distribution Services, information finds the user, rather than the user having to find the information.

Automated Personal Business Intelligence

With MicroStrategy 9, business users can further personalize and automate their BI environment by setting up their own personal alerting conditions driven off of the latest data in any BI report. Each business user can create personal information radars that automatically and continually scan the data warehouse for the user’s unique alerting requirements – to trigger personalized alerts delivered to email, print, or file locations.

Reduced Information Latency

Reduce the delay between the occurrence of an adverse business event and the business user being aware that they should take action. Business users can set a variety of report distribution triggers, including: send now, time-based schedules (e.g., every Monday morning), event-based triggers (e.g., when the books are closed), or alert-based triggers (e.g., if inventory levels drop 10% below normal). While schedule-based distributions are common in the BI industry, event-based triggers and alert-based triggers are far less common and empower users to truly see reports only when they need to look at the data.