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The 5 Styles of Business Intelligence

Successful organizations maximize the use of their data assets through business intelligence technology. The first data warehousing and decision support tools introduced companies to the power and benefits of accessing and analyzing their corporate data. Business users at every level found new, more sophisticated ways to analyze and report on the information mined from their vast data warehouses. Demand grew for an increasingly more powerful business intelligence solution that put the right information into the hands of every user within the enterprise.

Supporting Business Intelligence User's Demands

BI technology has evolved from these ever-increasing user demands to support five distinct application patterns — or styles. These five styles represent the complete spectrum of BI functionality required to support the monitoring, reporting and analytical needs of each and every business user. Most companies looking for a complete BI solution had to rely on multiple products from different niche vendors who supported only a single Style of BI.

The MicroStrategy platform is the only solution that delivers all 5 Styles of BI functionality to every user across the enterprise:

Scorecards & Dashboards

Enterprise Reporting

OLAP Analysis

Advanced & Predictive Analysis

Alerts & Proactive Notification

Pixel-perfect report formats with the broadest visual appeal that convey information "at-a-glance" for managers and executives
Print-perfect report formats that deliver more detailed operational information than a scorecard or dashboard in a concise format that can be consumed by all business users
Slice-and-dice analysis with drilling, pivoting, page-by and sorting capabilities for the manager or business user who needs to perform analyses beyond standard operational reports
Full investigative query against the data warehouse down to the transaction level, allowing power users and professional analysts to perform extensive predictive and statistical analyses
Information delivery to very large user populations both internal and external to the enterprise based on schedules, business exceptions or demand

Better Business Performance.

MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Solutions enable improved and more predictable business performance by putting actionable information into the hands of every business person in the enterprise. Our technology offers an unprecedented range of Monitoring, Reporting, and Analyzing capabilities within a single architecture to allow everyone to make better business decisions every day, and drive business performance goals.

Continuously Monitor Performance In Real Time

MicroStrategy provides the most powerful, scalable, and flexible BI platform in the world, allowing business users to constantly track key business metrics to inform and alert people about ongoing business activity and the decisions that might be required based on them.

Dashboards

MicroStrategy dashboards are designed to deliver amazing data visualizations in a format optimized for quick absorption. Our Dynamic Dashboard technology lets developers bring data to life with beautiful clarity. More »

Scorecards

MicroStrategy offers hundreds of pre-defined KPIs out-of-the-box, or you can build an unlimited number of KPIs based on a specific methodology, such as the Balanced Scorecard™, Six Sigma, or Activity Based Management. More »

Portals

MicroStrategy can customize and implement your portal application out-of-the-box, or be easily integrated into your existing portals or applications via our Portal Integration Kit. >


 

Report Detailed Information for Day-to-Day Decision-making

MicroStrategy can deliver detailed data on current and historical operational performance so people can see what is happening across the enterprise, and how well the business is operating. MicroStrategy has advanced reporting technology with an intuitive, engaging user experience and delivery via the Web, giving more users faster access to business intelligence.

Statements

MicroStrategy uses the same exacting page layout techniques as professional desktop publishing packages to generate invoices and statements that contain detailed transactional data and summary information. More »

Business Reports

Produce boardroom-quality business reports with MicroStrategy's user-friendly interface and free-form layout that are optimized for on-screen viewing and drillable to detailed or related information. More »

Operational Reports

MicroStrategy quickly organizes massive amounts of operational data into hierarchical categories that are fundamental to production operations, with easy page and section navigation. More »



 

Analyze Data to Uncover Trends in Business Performance

MicroStrategy presents views of the business from many different angles so that managers can uncover the causes of performance problems, uncover opportunities that the business should exploit, or predict business results.

Statistical Analysis

Choose from more than 270 mathematical, OLAP, financial, and statistical functions built in to the MicroStrategy platform and apply them on-the-fly to any set of enterprise data without any administrative help. More »

Financial Analysis

From Profit Margin or Current Ratio to Asset Turnover or Debt to Equity, you can have unlimited access to financial ratios and analytics when performing financial analysis with any MicroStrategy reporting tool. More »

Predictive Analysis

MicroStrategy is the first BI platform to support the Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) standard. Our platform fully integrates data mining scoring into mainstream BI, making predictive metrics available to all decision makers and business users. More »