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MicroStrategy 8

Better Business Decisions Every Day. MicroStrategy 8 builds upon the unified architectural foundation established by MicroStrategy 7. It inherits the industrial-strength attributes that have become the hallmark of MicroStrategy technology—including the highest user scalability, highest data scalability, supporting all 5 Styles of Business Intelligence as plug-n-play components, and an enterprise-caliber of non-stop operations and powerful administration.

With MicroStrategy 8, businesses can now extend the richness of MicroStrategy business intelligence to more diverse business people and to use it to manage more facets of business performance.

Technology Breakthroughs
1. Redesigned User Interface specifically tailored for the business person and optimized for high productivity...Learn More
2. Fully Interactive Reporting, featuring drag & drop report inter-actions through a zero footprint, multi-browser web interface...Learn More
3. Seamless Integration of Reporting & Analysis within any & every report or scorecard
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4. WYSIWYG Report Design provides practical ability for business users to design & refine their reports, radically reducing development & deployment time...Learn More
5. Direct Access to SAP BW for full MicroStrategy Reporting, Analysis, and Alerting...Learn More
6. Direct Access to Operational Data (from ERP systems) for full MicroStrategy Reporting, Analysis and Alerting...Learn More
7. Heterogeneous Joining of data from Data Warehouses, Data Marts, SAP BW Sources, and Operational (ERP) Systems...Learn More
8. Integrating Best of Breed Data Mining Models into everyday MicroStrategy reports and analyses...Learn more
  Business Benefits Overview
» World-class Business Intelligence for All of Your Business Users
» New Standard for Enterprise Reporting and Scorecards
» Access to All Data Throughout the Enterprise, Beyond the Data Warehouses
» Data Mining Insight for Mainstream Business Usage
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 Customer Quotes

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“MicroStrategy 8 is reporting at its finest. With an outstanding/unique focus on reporting, it offers an effortless convergence of reporting and analysis not available in other business intelligence pro-ducts. Our users will be able to see exactly how their reports look as they build them, without having to go into a separate design mode. As a result, we envision faster report writing production.”

- Meredith Corporation
 Analyst Quotes

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"The OLAP Surveys have consistently found that MicroStrategy sites have the most users, and the highest level of Web-deployment. MicroStrategy 8 provides further improvements in the Web user interface and better source data connectivity while still providing the only fully integrated product set ideally suited for large scale, complex data analysis, highly formatted reporting, proactive exception reporting and advanced queries."
 
 Nigel Pendse, lead author of
 The OLAP Report
The MicroStrategy 8 Product Platform
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
The industry's first and only BI server to provide all 5 styles of BI on a single, unified platform using a services-oriented architecture
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server
A proactive information delivery server that distributes personalized business information to users via email, printers, file services, SMS and mobile devices
Service Modules User Interfaces Development Tools
MicroStrategy OLAP Services
An extension of MicroStrategy Intelligence Server that allows MicroStrategy Desktop, Office and Web users to manipulate Intelligent Cubes™

MicroStrategy Report Services
The enterprise reporting engine of the MicroStrategy BI platform that delivers the entire range of enterprise reports

MicroStrategy Data Mining Services
A fully integrated component that delivers data mining predictive models to all users

MicroStrategy SAP® Services
SAP certified NetWeaver™ integra-tion with SAP BW, SAP WAS & SAP Enterprise Portal
MicroStrategy Desktop
The BI software component that provides integrated query and reporting, powerful analytics and decision support workflow on the personal computing desktop

MicroStrategy Mobile
The interactive interface that lets business users access MicroStrategy reports and dashboards from their BlackBerry® device.

MicroStrategy Office
An add-in that gives business users open and straightforward access to the full functionality of the MicroStrategy platform -- all from familiar Microsoft Office applications

MicroStrategy Web
A highly interactive, easy to use interface for monitoring, reporting and analysis
MicroStrategy Administrator
A suite of tools that provide the most comprehensive systems management environment for business intelligence

MicroStrategy Architect
A rapid development tool that maps the physical structure of the database into a logical business model & stores it in a centralized metadata repository

MicroStrategy BI Developer Kit
A CPM starter kit with application modules & development tools that lets business users immediately start reporting, analyzing, & monitoring corporate performance

MicroStrategy Integrity Manager
A data validation tool that automatically compares and verifies the consistency of reports as changes are made within a company's BI system.

MicroStrategy SDK
A comprehensive development environment that enables quick & easy customization & integration of the MicroStrategy platform into any application on any platform
Performance Management Starter Kits

These Starter Kits are designed to solve specific business problems and provide users with an ideal framework to jumpstart their application initiatives. Each Starter Kit ships with a sample data-model and numerous reports and analytics, and they work against existing data warehouses so that companies can leverage data investments without the need for additional data extraction and loading concerns.

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