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MicroStrategy SDK

Features | Benefits | FAQs

MicroStrategy SDK (Software Development Kit) is a comprehensive development environment that enables easy customization and integration of the MicroStrategy BI platform with enterprise business applications. Through documentation of the application programming interfaces (API), sample code, utilities and developer tools, the MicroStrategy SDK empowers developers to implement highly customized, functional and powerful Web reporting BI applications, meeting all your organization’s BI requirements.

Features At A Glance

 

Benefits At A Glance

» Layered, object-oriented web architecture designed for easy customization and integration
» Open architecture with comprehensive documentation of the over 4000 API methods and properties
» Comprehensive documentation in the MicroStrategy Developer Library
» Packaging designed for easy embedding
» Adherence to industry standards
» XML ready for Web Services
» Detailed Features
 
» Easily modify MicroStrategy Web interface using parameter-driven customizations with minimal programming skills
» Quick to deploy changes to user interfaces without requiring a recompilation or restarting the application
» Easy upgrades of customizations from one version to another using a configuration upgrade utility that merges and customizes customizations
» Intuitive development environment with comprehensive Developer Library
» OEM & System Integrator-friendly platform
» Detailed Benefits

 

The MicroStrategy SDK provides developers with all of the necessary resources to customize the look-and-feel of MicroStrategy, integrate MicroStrategy into a broad range of IT applications, and build new products and applications using MicroStrategy BI technology.
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Powerful Development Environment

The MicroStrategy SDK is a comprehensive software development kit that enables developers to customize and build powerful BI applications using the MicroStrategy platform. Using the MicroStrategy Developer Library, developers can quickly learn the architecture, API references, use sample code to build custom applications.

Functionally Rich API

Developers have access to the entire range of the MicroStrategy BI platform functionality through the various APIs. The Intelligence Server API exposes all the functions needed to build data models and reports, implement security, and administer the system. Using the Web API, developers can build custom web-based BI applications that provide the full range of application functionality available in MicroStrategy and more. The Narrowcast Server API allows application developers to manage an information delivery application.

Embed Intelligence into any Website and Portal

Using the SDK, developers can easily customize their MicroStrategy environment to suit their users’s specific functional requirements, match corporate branding by changing the look and feel as well as deploy across to enterprise portals.

View MicroStrategy BI Reports within a sample Plumtree portal


Adherence to Industry Standards such as XML, Java, COM, MDX, SOAP and Web Services

The MicroStrategy SDK provides various levels of rich API support for development on multiple platforms by supporting industry standards such as XML, Java, COM, MDX and Web services. For example, any business can build their Web reporting solution on UNIX, Linux or Windows while utilizing leading application servers such as IBM® Websphere® and BEA WebLogic using the Java-based Web API. MicroStrategy's use of XML for data transfer enables businesses to present information in multiple formats and styles, such as through the Web, email or other devices. Using the Web Services Development Kit™ developers can expose and deploy MicroStrategy functionality as Web Services.