MicroStrategy Report Services Product Benefits
Familiar Unified Interfaces
MicroStrategy’s user interfaces are unified across the entire MicroStrategy platform, ensuring that individuals are always in a familiar territory no matter what kind of reporting or analysis is required.
Effective Communication with Large Audiences
Information is readily consumed when presented in a user-friendly and aesthetic format. By enabling high-quality report production and use of standard corporate templates, MicroStrategy Report Services increases the impact of enterprise reporting to the broadest populations.
Seamless Integration of Reporting and Analysis
Users gain premium insight from content-rich, boardroom quality reports and the complete spectrum of analyses by drilling to cubes or further within the data warehouse for detailed investigative analysis, all through a unified Web interface. Reports are powered by MicroStrategy OLAP Services which allows user to access the analytic functions library with more than 250 arithmetic and statistical functions including correlations and rankings. Reporting and analysis can now be consolidated into one easy to use and easy to administer BI platform.
Easy, Efficient and Effective Design Experience
MicroStrategy Report Services allows report designers to combine traditional hierarchical banded design techniques with newer Web-oriented zone-based design techniques. MicroStrategy Report Services surpasses all reporting paradigms and delivers complete report design freedom to create analytically sophisticated and visually stunning reports. Any changes to the report are automatically applied to the document.
Low Total Cost of Ownership
Since MicroStrategy Report Services requires no additional software other than an internet browser to access information, there are huge savings on hardware costs. The intuitive nature of the product requires no intensive end-user training and very low maintenance. Furthermore, MicroStrategy Report Services’ seamless integration with the MicroStrategy platform, makes it easy for administrators to maintain.
Robust Security Functions
MicroStrategy Report Services reports can reach an unlimited number of users through MicroStrategy's unified Web interface, with each user receiving a completely personalized version of each report. MicroStrategy delivers personalized information to many diverse recipients automatically, through security filters, access control lists, and user roles.
Consolidation of Business Insight from Multiple Sources
Business users see information on a single scorecard, dashboard, or report, which incorporates data from disparate sources across the enterprise. Report designers combine data from the data warehouse with data from any number of real-time operational databases and SAP® BW instances.
Report Personalization to Match User Preference
All facets of the report are automatically personalized, including report contents, report language, and report drill-down paths. Users can further personalize the report content by selecting options from convenient lists when the report is run, known as parameterized reporting. Users can also personalize their interface to further control their reporting experience. With MicroStrategy Report Services, individualized reporting to users worldwide is efficient and elegant.
High Throughput Production
The MicroStrategy platform enables low-cost central administration of security and privileges, safeguarding user self-service. For instance, one prompted report can translate into hundreds of permutations as users select report contents from a list of automatically defined choices based on security filters.