MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit™ FAQs

1. What is the MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?
The MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit is included in the MicroStrategy SDK and assists developers seeking to integrate MicroStrategy BI functionality with enterprise portals.

Enterprise portals are quickly becoming the single point of personalized information access for all users in an organization. Integrating portals with all enterprise applications, including business intelligence, is quickly becoming an imperative in the pursuit of distributing and receiving business intelligence.

The MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit provides developers with generic portlets to provide MicroStrategy reporting and BI functionality into their enterprise portal. It comes equipped with sample source code and documentation to give developers a head-start on integrating MicroStrategy into their portal.

2. What is the basic content of the MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?
The Portal Integration Kit includes sample source code and documentation for embedding MicroStrategy reports and folders into a portal. As part of the sample code we ship generic Portlets which provide the following functionality.

• Ability to seamlessly logon to MicroStrategy Platform.
• Ability to display a MicroStrategy report in the portal page and perform BI manipulations like drilling, pivoting, sorting, etc.
• Ability to display a folder and browse through the folder and run a report in the portal page.

In addition, using the framework provided by the Portal Integration Kit, one could easily extend to display history list and subscribed reports in portal as well.


3. How can the Portal Integration Kit be used?
The Portal Integration Kit is a great starting point for developers to integrate MicroStrategy BI functionality with any commercial or homegrown portal. The Portal Integration Kit speeds developers' understanding of the basic integration workflow, the overall architecture, and the usage of MicroStrategy API functions and portal API functions. Since the portlet API is different for different portal servers, developers need to make the relevant changes in Portal Integration Kit to make the generic portlets to work with different portal servers.

4. What programming language is used by the Portal Integration Kit?
Developers can build portlets using the Portal Integration Kit in either Java or by using custom .Net tags. This allows developers to use the Portal Integration Kit with both Windows and UNIX environment and for different application servers and web servers.

5. What portals can we integrate using MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?
The Portal Integration Kit provides generic portlets that can be used with any commercial or homegrown portal, such as Oracle, IBM Websphere Portal, Microsoft® SharePoint™ Portal Server, mySAP™ Enterprise Portals. This means that developers can use the Portal Integration Kit to integrate MicroStrategy with any desired Portal.

6. Does MicroStrategy support JSR 168 and WSRP?
Yes. MicroStrategy is committed to adhering to all common industry open standards, such as Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 and Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP).

JSR 168 establishes a standard API for creating portlets and for the integration component between applications and portals (to deliver this application through the portal). Without this standard, each version of an application would need its own portlet API and each portlet would need to be specifically tailored to a particular portal, raising development time, effort, and costs.

Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) are visual, user-facing web services centric components that plug-n-play with portals or other intermediary web applications to aggregate content from different sources. They provide businesses with content in a form that does not require any manual content- or application-specific adaptation.

7. How much does the Portal Integration Kit cost?
Portal Integration Kit is shipped with MicroStrategy SDK (7.2 and above). By purchasing an SDK license, developers will have access to Portal Integration Kit. In addition, when you deploy the MicroStrategy BI into portals via Portal Integration Kit, the corresponding licenses for MicroStrategy Intelligence Server and Web/Web Universal are needed.

8. How can I buy the MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?
The MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit is not sold separately. It is included with purchase of the MicroStrategy SDK.

To purchase MicroStrategy SDK, please contact your account executive or contact us.