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MicroStrategy Desktop is the business intelligence software component that provides integrated monitoring, reporting, powerful analytics and decision support workflow on an intuitive Windows®-based interface. MicroStrategy Desktop provides users with the means to easily access and share critical corporate information from the database or SAP data source in order to make cost-cutting decisions and improve business processes. Even complex reports are easy to create; they can be viewed in various presentation formats, polished into production reports, distributed to other users and extended through a host of ad hoc features including drilling, pivoting and data slicing. Developers and power users alike employ MicroStrategy Desktop as the primary development interface for the MicroStrategy platform; however, the interface can also be customized for different users' skill levels and security profiles.

Features At A Glance

 

Benefits At A Glance

» Controlled ad hoc reporting with context-driven analysis & recommended next steps
» Quick and easy query creation
» Intuitive interface integrates seamlessly with MicroStrategy Architect & Administrator functions
» Data-rich cross-tab grids, graphs and HTML reports
» Full range of analysis, over 240 analytical functions
» Produce boardroom-quality reports with maximum visual impact
» Secure sharing & viewing of reports
» Scalable from small departmental applications to large enterprise-wide solutions
» Detailed Features
 
» Users can get critical information without waiting for IT to create reports
» Easy to use software with context-sensitive help eliminates need for extensive support & maintenance
» Guided report navigation maximizes productivity
» Single console simplifies design, development and analysis
» Highly interactive interface makes MicroStrategy Desktop easy to use
» Detailed Benefits

   
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Product Highlights
 
Direct Access to Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDWs)

MicroStrategy Desktop allows users to create reports that access the full depth and breadth of the largest EDWs. MicroStrategy technology accomplishes this through a highly proprietary and highly optimized SQL Engine that dynamically creates new optimized SQL whenever a report is run, or whenever a user drills anywhere back into the data warehouse.


Direct Access to SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW)

The MicroStrategy platform incorporates a dynamic data access engine designed to access multi-dimensional databases (MDDBs or OLAP Cube Databases) such as those from SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW) databases. This new Dynamic MDX Engine generates optimized MDX syntax that is fully certified with SAP BW using SAP’s high performance BAPI interfaces. The dynamically generated MDX uses the multidimensional models implicit in SAP InfoCubes, QueryCubes, and ODS allowing users to transparently drill back into SAP BW for more data, without any prior programming or prior design of drill paths. With MicroStrategy Desktop, users can create reports that access SAP data, join data across SAP BW Infocubes and QueryCubes, as well as access multiple instances of SAP BW at once.

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Direct Access to Operational Data

MicroStrategy Desktop offers a new Operational SQL Engine that lets users include data from any operational system using completely free-form SQL, including stored procedures and views. This extends the MicroStrategy metadata architecture to instantly include attributes and facts accessed directly from non-modeled databases on a query-by-query basis.

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Join Data from Heterogeneous Databases from Across the Enterprise

The MicroStrategy platform offers greater data modeling flexibility, including integrated views of data across heterogeneous data stores. By mapping conforming dimensions from different sources within the object model, the MicroStrategy platform can automatically join data from multiple sources in the same report document. Data can come from any source accessible by MicroStrategy, including the data warehouse, data marts, SAP BW and any number of operational system databases.

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Full Range of Analytical Functions

MicroStrategy Desktop provides access to MicroStrategy Intelligence Server's more than 240 mathematical, OLAP, statistical and financial functions for use in any of the key performance indicators used in your organization. Additionally, users can create custom groupings of data elements for their reports. These custom groups allow users to view logical data groupings that may not be defined in the data warehouse.

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Powerful Data Mining Functionality

MicroStrategy Data Mining Services is a fully integrated component of the MicroStrategy BI platform that delivers data mining predictive models to all users. It empowers users to perform data mining using metrics built with out-of-the-box predictive functions.

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