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MicroStrategy Product Descriptions

The 2017 Catalog consists of three base modules:

Add-on modules used to build your configuration are selected from five product categories:

  • Servers: Products that enable users to leverage capabilities of the MicroStrategy servers to deploy enterprise business intelligence applications and enterprise security applications.
  • Clients: Products that allow users to view and develop MicroStrategy content through front-end applications and interfaces.
  • Drivers: Products that allow users to connect their MicroStrategy software environment to certain data sources.
  • Gateways: Products that allow users to integrate MicroStrategy software with enterprise mobility management solutions (EMMs) and physical access control systems (PACs).
  • Applications: Pre-packaged applications with custom dashboards, reports and supporting metadata objects such as attributes, metrics etc.

In addition, MicroStrategy requires customers to select an operating environment when purchasing product licenses under its most-recent product catalog: Windows, Linux or AWS. Each customer will be restricted to deploying the base product module (for example, Intelligence, Reporter or Identity) only in the operating environment indicated on the order.

The links provided in each section below will take you to official MicroStrategy product documentation for more detailed information regarding particular functionality.

Intelligence (Base Module)

Intelligence provides customers with the ability to configure, deploy and manage enterprise applications to their users. It is the foundation of the platform that lets users concurrently execute highly optimized queries, enabling high throughput and fast response times. Intelligence has been built with the scalability and fault tolerance required for analysis of multi-terabyte databases and can be deployed to thousands of users. It contains specific optimizations for all major relational databases and multi-dimensional databases. This product also includes the capabilities to administer, manage and monitor applications, jobs and users as well as set up security, configure connections to data-sources, and build automation and testing scripts and workflows.

Servers

Intelligence (Base Server Module)

Capabilities include:

Analytics

Analytics allows users to utilize in-memory data stored in intelligent cubes to achieve high performance. Users can add or remove report objects, add derived metrics and modify the filter, all with "speed-of-thought" response time against intelligent cubes. Additionally, this product provides users the capability to import data from different sources and store the data in-memory. It also lets users leverage external statistical functions.

Capabilities include:

Transaction

MicroStrategy Product Descriptions provides write-back capabilities from grids and dashboards. It is supported for both mobile and web applications, and writes back to ERP and other operational systems via web services using xQuery; and to databases via freeform SQL.

Capabilities include:

  • Extend dashboards, reports, and documents to have write back capabilities
  • Create transaction reports
  • Configure transaction from the interface
  • Submit transactions

Distribution

Distribution automates the delivery of personalized reports and alerts, interactive Flash dashboards and static reports via email, folders or printers. From small departments to enterprise-wide BI deployments, Distribution can deliver business performance reporting to tens or thousands of people. This product places control over information distribution into the hands of business users, who can subscribe themselves or others to receive reports or dashboards on a schedule, event or alert basis. Notably, business users can set up their own "personal alert" conditions that, when met, will trigger report or dashboard distributions. Please note that Narrowcast Server is included with Distribution license.

Capabilities include:

  • Send dashboards, reports, and documents via emails to end users
  • Receive emails from MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
  • Deliver to a FTP or file location
  • Create and manage dynamic subscription lists
  • Send immediately, from within the dashboards
  • User security filters
  • Create alert-based deliveries
  • Deliver to different formats:
    • HTML
    • Excel
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • .mstr file

Clients

Web

Web is a proprietary, zero-footprint, browser-independent web interface providing query, reporting and analysis through a platform independent architecture. Web provides users with a highly interactive environment and low maintenance interface for reporting and analysis. Using this intuitive web solution, users execute, access, analyze and share reports and dashboards. Web also allows users to access to MicroStrategy applications through a Microsoft Office interface. This product also includes Web SDK functionality, which allows users to customize their web interface.

A Web license also includes a license to the Desktop product; see below for more information.

Finally, this product is intended for users who want to save their interactions with the data as a standalone object or create their own definitions.

Capabilities include:

Desktop

Desktop is a standalone, native application and visual data discovery tool that allows users to import data and build visualizations on top of that data. When licensed as part of the Web product, it allows the user to connect back to the Intelligence server.

Mobile

Mobile allows users to view business data on the iPad, iPhone, and Android smartphones and tablets in multi-touch tables, graphs, charts, visualizations, maps, documents, and dynamic dashboards via a native mobile application.

Capabilities include:

  • Ability to view a dashboards, reports, and documents in a native Android, iPhone, and iPad mobile application
  • Run a dashboard
  • Annotation/Notes
  • Filtering
  • Export grids to Excel
  • Emailing a screenshot
  • Printing
  • Subscription
  • Page-by/Group-by/Sorting
  • Mobile SDK functionality for iOS and Android

API

API is a client license that allows users to integrate functionality provided by the Intelligence server with custom or third party applications (not developed using the Web or Mobile products). This includes the ability to connect to, push data to, pull data from, and view content from a MicroStrategy environment, enabling custom or third party applications to leverage in-memory, transaction or distribution options in addition to the robust capabilities available in the Intelligence Server. In order to access MicroStrategy data and/or functionality via a custom or third party application (not developed using the Web or Mobile products), each client user must have at least one of the following client licenses: Web or API. For example, if a user wants to use a 3rd party tool to access MicroStrategy functionality, they would need the Web or API license for each user.

Architect

Architect provides users the ability to build reports, document, dashboards and applications and develop metrics, prompts and filters, etc., through a native Windows application. Users can interactively build reports, retrieve and display formatted results, and navigate through information to areas of interest. Additionally, this product provides end users with the ability to migrate objects from one environment to another.

Capabilities include:

  • Design Applications by building MD objects
    • Grids and Report Services documents and dashboards
    • Metrics, filters, consolidations, custom groups etc.
  • Advanced formatting, thresholding, history list, data-marts etc
  • Object Migration/Change Management

Drivers

For a complete list of certified and supported Drivers, visit the Drivers and Connectors page.

Relational (included with Intelligence Server base module)

The Relational package allows users to connect the MicroStrategy platform to a set of data sources typically accessed through relational drivers. The drivers included in this product have passed extensive in-house certification tests with exclusive optimizations built into the platform to deliver high performance.

OLAP

The OLAP package allows users to connect the MicroStrategy platform to multi-dimensional data sources through MDX queries, execute business queries and fetch data from multi-dimensional data sources. This product provides customers the ability to access multi-dimensional data sources with drivers that have been certified by MicroStrategy. The drivers included in this product have passed extensive in-house certification tests with exclusive optimizations built into the platform to deliver high performance.

Big Data

The Big Data package allows users to connect the MicroStrategy platform to big data sources typically stored in Hadoop distributions through Hive/Spark-SQL or Impala queries, and fetch data from big data sources. This product provides customers the ability to access big data sources with drivers that have been certified by MicroStrategy. The drivers included in this product have passed extensive in-house certification tests with exclusive optimizations built into the platform to deliver high performance.

Gateways

Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)

The EMM products are individually licensed gateways that allow users to integrate mobile applications with third party EMM solutions.

Applicable only with Mobile client.

EMM Gateway products (supported EMM solutions):

  • Airwatch by VMware
  • AppConfig
  • Mobile Iron
  • Blackberry Dynamics (Formerly called Good Technologies)

Reporter (Base Module)

Reporter (Server)

Reporter Server is the base module of the Reporter (Client) product that contains a subset of the functionality of Intelligence (Base Server Module) and Analytics . Please see description of the Reporter (Client) product for more information.

Reporter (Client)

Reporter (Client) is an add-on module to the Reporter (Server) product. This product is aimed at users in an organization who are data consumers, that is, those who exclusively view content. This is a pure consumption product which means that a different user (an Architect or Web user) must create and deploy the dashboards, documents and reports for these users to see. Reporter (Client) gives users the capability to only view dashboards, reports and documents and perform basic operations from a Web browser. The corresponding Reporter (Server) product includes the capabilities that leverage in-memory data to perform operations such as running dashboards, reports and documents sourced from intelligent cubes. The Reporter (Server) product includes the functionality of the Intelligence (Base Server Module) and Analytics products, without any administration or monitoring capabilities, allowing users to submit dashboard, document or report requests to the underlying data sources (including in-memory) via the Intelligence Server.

Capabilities include:

  • Execute dashboards, reports, and documents
  • Perform basic operations such as:
    • Sorting
    • Pivoting
    • Page-by
    • Share a link to the dashboards, reports, and documents
    • Drilling
    • Print
    • Re-run dashboards, reports, and documents
    • Exporting (to PDF, .mstr, Excel, HTML, etc.)
  • Access dashboards, reports and documents built on top of Intelligent cubes.
  • Operations/manipulations that utilize in-memory capabilities

Restrictions:

  • No ability to save or design dashboards, reports, and documents
  • No ability upload .mstr files to a server
  • No ability to save metadata objects such as prompts, prompt answers, metrics etc.
  • No access to any administrative or monitoring capabilities such as cache/cube monitoring, job monitoring, automation, and testing etc.
  • No access to publishing of Intelligent cubes. A Web or Architect user must publish the intelligent cube.
  • Cannot be combined with Mobile (client)
  • No ability to automatically distribute dashboards, reports, and documents using MicroStrategy Intelligence Server

Customers can purchase the following additional "add-on" server modules or drivers and gateways as mentioned below:

Optional "Add-On" server modules:

  • Transaction to provides write-back capabilities from grids and dashboards from web browser.
  • Distribution can be added separately to automate the delivery of reports, dashboards and documents.

Drivers and Gateways:

Identity (Base Module)

Servers

Identity (Base Server Module)

Identity enables users to create, configure, distribute and manage digital identities (badges) for users.

Capabilities include:

Collaboration

Collaboration provides users the capability to exchange messages via the Identity server as the intermediary. Collaboration can be carried out from any Identity client interface. All users sending or receiving messages via the Collaboration product must exist in the Identity repository.

Capabilities include:

Telemetry

Telemetry provides users the ability to automatically capture and analyze data from Identity clients and servers.

Capabilities include:

Clients

Badge

Badge is a mobile client application that is used to create, configure, distribute, and use digital identities for physical access, logical access, peer to peer validation, and data capture. With this product, a user can scan the QR code provided by the Identity server and gain access to either applications or physical systems such as doors or gateways, which are controlled by PACs.

Capabilities include:

  • Mobile App on Android phones and tablets, iPhone and iPad
  • Host multiple, different badges
  • Authenticate the user through Identity Server enabling them to log in to applications or to provide access to physical systems
  • Replace a physical identification with a digital identity

Usher

Usher provides analytics, identity discovery, mustering, and two way communications features to conduct complex analytics and optimize productivity for Badge users.

Capabilities include:

  • Mobile application on Android phones and tablets, iPhone and iPad
  • Access dashboards provided in the Usher Analytics App
  • Enables users to analyze activity and identify patterns through the "Badge Usage" functionality

Gateways

Logical

The Logical gateway product provides users the ability to access a set of logical gateways to add multi-factor authentication to enterprise applications, including gateways that provide access to SAML applications, custom applications, Web applications, Mobile applications, Virtual Private Networks, and Workstations. For a complete list of supported enterprise applications, please refer to the product readme.

Physical Access Controls (PACs)

The PACS gateway products provide users the ability to enable physical access to doors and other physical gateways.

PACS gateway products (supported PAC gateways):

  • AMAG
  • Brivo
  • Lenel
  • Paxton
  • S2 Security
  • Tyco

Applications

Usher Analytics

Usher Analytics is a custom-built application with pre-designed metrics and attributes, and dashboards optimized for viewing and analyzing user and identity data captured.

Capabilities include:

  • Out-of-the-box application with dashboards, and metrics and attributes etc.
  • Ability to add new objects (attributes, metrics. etc.) to the Out-of-the-box application
  • Ability to customize dashboards
  • Ability to integrate other data into this application