MicroStrategy Report Services Product Features
Users Access Reports Through a Zero-Footprint Web Interface
Published reports are immediately available to MicroStrategy users over the web from any browser, without the use of Java applets, ActiveX or other plug-ins. Flexible prompting personalizes reports to each user thereby allowing one report to serve many users in many different contexts, for fast and efficient report development. Users access reports online based on user-specific permissions with security extending down to the cell level, making reports both personalized and secure.
Full Integration into the MicroStrategy BI Platform
MicroStrategy Report Services works as a service in MicroStrategy’s architecture, inheriting all the benefits of the MicroStrategy platform, including iron-clad security, centralized administration, unified metadata and advanced prompting. The user interface stays the same as users move from reporting to analysis, minimizing product training and easing user adoption.
Full Interactivity for Scorecards, Dashboards and Enterprise Reports
Simple drag-and-drop actions, right mouse-click menus, toolbar icons allow business users to easily navigate, sort, pivot, drill on fields, create new calculations and switch between cross-tab and graphical views. These intuitive and familiar methods of interaction provide an easy, efficient and effective design experience that allows business users to uncover business opportunities. Collaborative interactions, such as adding status updates to a report, are available in one-click.
WYSIWYG Design for All Enterprise Scorecards, Dashboards and Reports
The WYSIWYG mode provides business users the tools to easily design and refine their dashboards and enterprise reports through a zero-footprint Web interface. Business users can edit or format any object on-the-fly, such as drag-and-drop into any location, format, pivot, graph, or add commentary. The WYSIWYG design provides the same kind of designing functionalities that users are familiar within Microsoft® PowerPoint® or Excel. Report developers and business users have precise control of headers and footers, sorting, page break logic, page orientation, page size and margins, and fit-to-page options. This simple model for designing reports makes it possible for average business users to ‘fine-tune’ reports as they desire without consulting with professional report designers.
Flexible Report Format and Layout
Simple dragging and dropping of report components allows MicroStrategy Report Services users to easily create the highest quality reports with complete formatting flexibility. Unlike other reporting products, MicroStrategy Report Services' modern architecture is optimized to deliver both hierarchical banded reports, delivered by traditional Windows®-based report writers, and newer, Web-oriented zone-based reports.
Simplified Dashboard Design
Out-of-the-box dashboard templates, toolbars, intelligent placement of objects within panels and zero requirement of programming skills, allows business users to create highly effective dashboards quickly. Furthermore, power users can create and customize multi-layout dashboards leveraging the dashboard templates.
High-Volume Enterprise Report Generation
MicroStrategy, with a proven track of 80,000 personalized report throughput per hour, delivers reports to any channel including Web, networked printers, email, file servers and portals.
Access Information from Multiple Data Sources
All MicroStrategy Report Services scorecards, dashboards and enterprise reports can use data from virtually any source or a combination of multiple separate data sources. These data sources include relational data warehouses, transactional databases, operational datamarts, SAP® Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW), and even flat files such as comma-delimited and Excel files. From human resources to finance to supply chain applications sourced from ERP applications like SAP® and other operational systems, MicroStrategy leverages the breadth of corporate data assets to provide a complete view of the business.
Multi-Tabbed Report Book
Users can now consolidate reports into a single, multi-layout document for easy analysis. Each layout contains a single document, dashboard, scorecard, or enterprise report that may consist of data accessed from various sources of information. Business users can quickly create statements, report books, or dashboard books to gain different perspectives on a single unified document.
Pixel-Perfect On Screen and Print-Perfect on Paper
MicroStrategy Report Services provides a single report definition that is interactive and looks great on-screen while still possessing all the properties required for printing precisely formatted reports that may span hundreds of pages. Users have the option of adding a table of contents or watermark to pixel-perfect formatted PDF documents. With a single click, business users have the ability to generate documents in portable document format (PDF), a Flash stand-alone file (MHT), HTML, or Excel.
Creating Statements and Report Books
MicroStrategy 9 supports independent document design that can be unified into a single document book. Since each document in the book can be maintained independently and at a different pace, users can easily develop and maintain important information.
Investigative OLAP Analysis
MicroStrategy Report Services continues to employ the investigative capabilities of OLAP Analysis . Users can drill anywhere and create ad-hoc groups and lists of attributes. Heatmaps allow users to filter key performance indicators spontaneously and add or remove elements to assess information through different perspectives.
Link to Non-MicroStrategy Data
Dashboards are now designed to present non-MicroStrategy data. For instance, users can now show financial tickers, real time information, or external reports on the dashboard itself. RSS feeds, HTML containers and media widgets can be included to enhance the look-feel and informative abilities of the dashboards.
Flash Visualizations Rendered In AJAX and Flash Dashboards
Users can now create a single format to view dashboards in AJAX or Flash mode. Widgets such as Bubble Grid, Data Cloud, Date Picker, Fisheye, Graph Matrix, Heatmap, Media, RSS, Microchart, and Weighted List Viewer can now be rendered in both DHTML and Flash modes.
Instant Document Creation from Reports
MicroStrategy Report Services allows users to instantly create a document or dashboard from an existing report, which is displayed as a Grid/Graph on the document. Also, data manipulation such as page-by is automatically applied to documents if it exists in the underlying report.