• Deliver enterprise BI with higher performance and efficiency
  • Develop and deploy departmental BI applications quickly
  • Migrate seamlessly from departmental BI to enterprise BI

MicroStrategy 9: Distribution Services

Distribution Services / MultiSource Option / OLAP Services

MicroStrategy Distribution Services

High-volume automated distribution of reports, dashboards and business performance alerts via email, file and print

Is your Business Intelligence tool asking you to do the heavy lifting?
Monitoring business performance is every employee’s responsibility, not just executives', and requires careful attention to operational details and developing trends. Key decision makers need up-to-the-minute critical data to maximize organizational efficiency. Until now, stand-alone Business Intelligence tools have required business users to actively seek out this information.

MicroStrategy Distribution Services brings Business Intelligence to business users.
MicroStrategy Distribution Services offers unparalleled business performance monitoring and automated information distribution to guarantee the latest, critical information always reaches key decision makers. Built on and integrated with an industrial strength BI platform, MicroStrategy Distribution Services is a key component of a successful BI Implementation.

Key Capabilities

  • Create any number of subscriptions for any number of reports and documents
  • Trigger distribution by schedules, events, or exception thresholds
  • Send data to email, file or print, or to history list (with immediate email notification)
  • Subscribe others to share results and analysis, according to their security profiles
  • Compress and password-protect contents for fast, secure delivery

Distribute Information Directly to Users via E-mail, Networked Printers, and File Servers
Out-of-the-box, begin distributing key information to users and expand the reach of your Business Intelligence at the lowest possible cost.

Distribute Any and All MicroStrategy Output – Reports and Dashboards – In Multiple Formats
For true visual flexibility, MicroStrategy Distribution Services delivers reports and dashboards in multiple presentation–quality and standardized file formats including:

  • HTML
  • Excel
  • PDF
  • Plain text
  • CSV
  • Flash
  • Bulk export

Distribute Personalized Information to Each User
Every report or dashboard is automatically personalized according to each user’s security profile and preferences.

Subscriptions Set Up by Users or Administrators
Users create subscriptions by scheduling themselves for report deliveries to email, file or print locations. Delivery method, schedule, and personal report answers are all easily defined using an intuitive web-based interface. This web-based self-subscription is ideal for deployments to large global communities with minimal IT administration.

Users Create Subscriptions For Themselves or For Others
Subscribing others to deliveries lets project managers subscribe their team to key reports, administrators send customers and shareholders PDF reports, and users share analysis with their peers.

Distributions Triggered by Schedules, Events, or Exception Thresholds
Users and administrators can determine when subscriptions should be executed and deliveries sent. MicroStrategy Distribution Services can trigger deliveries during system downtime to balance resource allocation; at a key time during the business calendar – Monday mornings, first day of the month, or the end of the fiscal quarter; or for immediate delivery upon the completion of a dataload. Additionally, MicroStrategy Distribution Services checks for data-driven business rules to determine if content should be delivered – to alert users if inventory levels are low, send customer details to the sales team when metrics indicate projected customer churn.

Unmatched Performance and Stability on a Consolidated BI Platform
Built on the industrial strength MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, MicroStrategy Distribution Services is integrated with the Intelligence Server and has tried and tested enterprise-class performance, stability, and features, such as:

  • 32- and 64-bit Multi-platform support (Windows, UNIX, Linux, AIX)
  • Clustering, job load balancing and execution control, 24/7/365 fail-over, object caching, Intelligent Cubes, database optimization, multi-source data access, web based user and contact administration
  • Support for local-language reporting and delivery using multi-language data sources and metadata
  • Complete object re-use from reports and dashboards through to transmitters, devices, users and events
  • Full integration with administrative tools for script based admin, enterprise BI analysis, and life-cycle management (using MicroStrategy Command Manager, MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager, and MicroStrategy Object Manager, respectively).