I will discuss about the few key points and important release with this version,
– Unmatched user interfaces
– Highest performance & Scale
– Easy, Cost Effective Administration ( After System Manager inclusion in 9.3 )
– The power to unlock your big data assets ( BIG Data/HIVE technology introduction from 9.3)
– Fast Dashboard Development ( using Visual Insight –> Much improved from earlier versions )
BI Scorecard Ratings:
– Highest overall rated platform
– No areas of weakness ( where as other BI tool has )
– Superior in Mobile BI
– Industry Best Architecture
– Highest rated overall in self service BI
Gartner Ratings :
– MicroStrategy in Leader Quadrant for 6 consecutive years
– MicroStrategy ranked #1 in more categories than any other vendor
Forrester Ratings:
– Ranked as a leader
About MicroStrategy Visual Insights :
– Its really cool to work with Visual Insights 🙂
– Stunning visualizations
– On-Screen Filtering
– Interactive data exploration & root cause analysis
– Easy dashboard creation without IT professional support 🙂 ( Provided the end users are well verse with your objects that you have )
– Multi Source & Multi Visualizations
Web Interface ( Brand New ) :
– They already made lot of improvement in 9.3 itself interms of UI perspective, but now that still more new look & feel to the end users ( Looks cool!!! )
– Newly revamped interface
– Better navigation with control panels in side
– One Click access to Visual Data discovery
– Easy to track locations
– Customize your view
– Quickly create objects directly from the toolbar
Optimized workflow for Agile :
– Connect –> Discover –> Dashboard –> Share
–> You can connect to salesforce.com/excel/databases/SaaS apps
–> You can import them & build dashboard in a seconds & share them to colleagues
Web-Based Query Builder:
– Use Freeform editor in MicroStrategy web itself now
Sharing :
– Quickly generate links & share the dashboards or reports to the end users ( Can email link/share them for view )
Metric Creation :
– The main thing in 9.3.1 was that, they had brought Create Metric option in Web interface itself –> which would pave the way for end users to do adhoc reporting much more deeper & if the objects are well known to them –> then they can playaround with the objects that we have in Metadata…
The same like in Desktop, now we can use Formula editor/Conditionality/ Transformation/Level of aggregation setup in web itself…
New Graphs :
– Lipstick Graph 🙂
– Waterfall Graph
– Overlapping bar graph are introduced
Multiple datasets on one map ( Report Services Documents in DHTML mode )
As usual you have all the other additional components that performs their own tasks effectively 🙂
– MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager –> Monitor Performance & Utilization
– MicroStrategy Command Manager –> Automate MicroStrategy Tasks
– MicroStrategy Object Manager –> Coordinate Change Management
– MicroStrategy Integrity Manager –> Automate Regression Testing
Combining all above together with the help of MicroStrategy System Manager –> Create Administrative Workflows
Lot more non MicroStrategy tasks can also be done with the help of it….
Also about BIG Data – Hive technologies as well, there are enhancements with this release…
Hope it helps for the day!!!
