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Version Comparison

MicroStrategy Web is offered in three versions to meet the full range of business user reporting needs — from high-level scorecards and dashboards to advanced reporting and analysis. Within these editions described below, BI administrators can further personalize an individual user’s or group of users’ access to MicroStrategy Web functionality.

1. Web Reporter

Business users are able to view all types of reports and scorecards and also personalize reports, print, drill, sort, choose grid or graph format, schedule or immediately send reports via email or to a file server or a printer.

2. Web Analyst

This simplified version provides all the functionality of Web Reporter plus the ability to drill anywhere, edit totals, pivot report, add to or remove fields from a report, create derived metrics, and create reports or ad hoc queries.

3. Web Professional

This full-featured version provides all the functionality of Web Analyst plus the ability to design scorecards, dashboards and operational reports in design mode or WYSIWYG view mode. Web Professional users have advanced formatting capabilities as well as the ability to perform calculations across multiple data sources.

MicroStrategy Web Features: Comparison by Version

Web Reporter

Web Analyst

Web Professional

Browse and view reports and documents¹
Wizard driven report creation using prompts
Print and print preview
Incremental fetch of large data sets
Answer prompts on reports and documents
Search for reports and documents
User, data and object level security
Simple sorting and multiple column sorting (3 key)
Subscribe to a report or document to be delivered to your web page
Personalize subscriptions by answering prompt questions
Scheduled email report and document delivery²
Email reports and documents immediately²
Change view mode between grid and graph
Format grid using a choice of built-in styles
Page by viewing using attributes
Drill down on grid
Drill down on graph
Investigative workflow (drill to template)
Multiple dated versions of same subscribed report available in history list
Context sensitive right mouse click menus
View reports and documents in PDF
Navigate documents using grouping list box
Sort documents based upon groupings and/or the detail section
Create shortcuts to objects
Undo and redo changes in reports and documents
Toggle thresholds in reports
Export documents to Microsoft® Excel
Export reports to Microsoft Excel, HTML or text formats
Add reports to history list for later access
Simultaneously execute and retrieve results for multiple reports/documents
View report details including attribute, metric and filter details
View SQL or MDX generated for a report
Drill anywhere
Drill on metrics
 
Investigative workflow (custom drill paths) 
Export very large files in CSV format²
Change Graph Type, Categories and Series
Page by manipulation (i.e. move attribute to page by axis)
Pivot items between rows and columns
Filter on selection
Lock report row and column headers
Save to “My Reports” folder
Publish user created reports in Shared Reports
Rename report objects
Scheduled report or document delivery to file server²
Create new folder
Copy, move and rename objects
Rename report metrics using aliases
Delete reports, templates and filters
Add or modify report subtotals
Configure toolbars via right-click menu
Create derived metric calculations on a grid³
Add shortcut metrics within a grid report³
Apply view filters to reports³
Modify reports within predefined analysis area based on Intelligent Cube™³
Ad hoc report creation within predefined analysis area based on Intelligent Cube³
Execute Data Mart reports
Choose attribute form to display in report
Build reports from scratch in Design Mode
Access "All Objects" tab in Object Browser for report creation and modification
Create or edit documents in Design Mode
Create or edit documents in View Mode
Create and modify report templates
Create and modify report filters
Save individual templates and filters
Access all objects for report, template, and filter modification
Design Intelligent Cubes in Design Mode³
Format and modify graph titles and axes
Row, column, and cell level formatting for grid reports
Adjust report row height and column widths
Create a calculated field in a document
Toggle conditional formatting in documents

¹ Throughout the version comparison checklist, “Documents” refer to precisely formatted enterprise reports that require MicroStrategy Report Services.
² Requires MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server.
³ Requires MicroStrategy OLAP Services.