2. 2
MicroStrategy Architecture
FIVE Styles of BI applications include:
1. Data Mining and Advanced Analysis
2. Visual and OLAP analysis
3. Enterprise Reporting
4. Dashboards and Scorecards
5. Mobile Apps and Alerts
3. 3
MicroStrategy Architecture
Ease of use and self-service – Unparalleled usability & self service for
business users, any user interface
Highest user scalability – From novice to expert, serving from 100s
people to 100,000s people efficiently
Plug and play components – Start small and incrementally grow, using
one or combination of BI styles
Highest report scalability – Rapid report development through re-use,
with one report design serving many users
Automated report maintainability – Dynamic metadata architecture
ensures that changes ripple through all reports automatically
4. 4
MicroStrategy Architecture
Pervasive security & user administration – Security is automatically
applied to all people, reports and data through role based user
administration
Enterprise operations – High performance, non-stop operations and
central administration
Highest data scalability – Accessing data from across the enterprise to
the depth and breadth of the databases