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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 Reporter2. Web Analyst 3. Web Professional
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. 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. 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
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 reports to Microsoft® Excel, HTML or text formats

 

Export documents to Microsoft Excel  
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.



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