MicroStrategy makes powerful business analytics more accessible
IT departments face increasing demands for self-service applications to enable users to manipulate data themselves, but this often conflicts with the needs of the enterprise.
Enterprise software provider MicroStrategy is addressing this with the launch of its latest software which combines self-service analytics and data visualization with enterprise-grade infrastructure.
MicroStrategy 10 contains a number of new and improved features including data discovery offering enhanced exploration and visualization capabilities on both Mac OS and Windows. Users can quickly prepare data for analysis without using other tools.
New governed data discovery makes it simple to make dashboards from the desktop available to the enterprise, providing a path from self-service analytics to enterprise BI. Native Hadoop access makes analyzing large volumes of multi-structured data easy. Better in-memory performance lets users put more data on parallel-partitioned in-memory cubes, so organizations can run faster queries across larger volumes of data.
A redesigned HTML5 interface makes self-service analytics faster, more intuitive, and easier to use, so users can quickly connect to any data and drag-and-drop their way to business insights. Admins can save time too with a new Operations Manager that enables them to manage and monitor all of their environments from a single interface.
MicroStrategy's security uses biometric and multi-factor authentication to lock down every method of analytics delivery, conveniently and seamlessly. It uses Usher Mobile to instantly deploy security badges that replace passwords and ID’s with a mobile app distributed to all employees, partners and customers.
"We currently rely on the MicroStrategy Analytics Platform to track programming investments, analyze ad and affiliate sales trends, and review sales team performance," says Madhur Sawhney, Sr. Director Data & Analytics Technology at Discovery Communications. "After testing MicroStrategy 10 as an early adopter, our team really likes the new functionality, in particular, the ability to easily wrangle and parse data as well as save/import wrangling scripts functionality. The enhanced data blending features and on-the-fly data manipulations made possible with version 10 and Visual Insight provide incredible speed-of-interactivity and ease of use".
You can find more about MicroStrategy 10 on the company's website and it will be presented in a symposium series over the coming months.
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