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MicroStrategy Desktop is the premier BI development environment in the MicroStrategy platform. It provides users access to data through powerful analytical applications. These BI applications can address any business problem or process in order to make cost-cutting decisions and improve business performance. Within Desktop’s intuitive Windows®-based interface, users interactively build reports, retrieve and display formatted results, and navigate through information to areas of interest. Data investigation is extended through drilling, pivoting, and data slicing. Although MicroStrategy Desktop is a comprehensive development and reporting interface, it can also be customized for different users' skill levels and security profiles.
Features at a Glance
- Data-rich cross-tab grids, graphs and HTML reports
- Produce boardroom-quality reports with maximum visual impact
- Full range of analysis, over 240 analytical functions
- Extensive graphing capabilities
- Scalable from small departmental applications to large enterprise-wide solutions
- Secure sharing & viewing of reports
- Controlled ad hoc reporting with context-driven analysis
Benefits at a Glance
- Get critical information without waiting for IT to create reports
- Design, development and analyze through a single user console
- Create any report needed to analyze and monitor your business
- Incorporate sophisticated analytical and predictive insight in reports
- Format reports to meet any corporate standard
Product Highlights
Flexible Report Development through a Single Interface
MicroStrategy Desktop users can access all 5 Styles of BI (Scorecards & Dashboards, Enterprise Reporting, OLAP Analysis, Advanced & Predictive Analysis, and Alerts & Proactive Notification) through a single user interface, increasing the acceptance of the product and user productivity.
MicroStrategy users can create pixel-perfect reports and documents for on-screen presentations, as well as print-perfect reports and documents for physical distribution, without the need for any programming or outside help – it is all drag-and-drop.
Users can create ad hoc reports by dragging and dropping reusable business attributes and metrics onto a report template or by using custom-defined SQL statements.
Comprehensive Data Investigation
A wide set of features enables users to manipulate data in a variety of ways within a report. Users slice and dice data, rearrange rows and columns, and sort data to view the information in a format that provides them the most insight. Users drill to different levels of analysis and the new report results are automatically recalculated. This multidimensional investigation is a powerful tool for ad-hoc analysis because users get the information they need, in the format in which they need it.
Powerful Graphing Capabilities
MicroStrategy Desktop has the versatility to show reports in either grid or graph format. A powerful graphing engine allows users to select from a wide range of graph types, from simple bar or line graphs to more complex radar graphs. Users can easily format graphs and sub-graphs to display the title, grid walls, and axes as desired.
Full Range of Analytical Functions and Logical Data Groupings
More than 240 mathematical, OLAP, statistical, and financial functions are available for use in defining any of the key performance indicators used in any organization.
Users can create custom groupings of data elements for their reports. These custom groups allow users to view logical data groupings that may not be defined in the data warehouse.