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MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit FAQs

1. What is the MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?
2. What is included in the MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?
3. How can the Portal Integration Kit be used?
4. What programming language is used in the Portal Integration Kit?
5. What Portals can my organization integrate with using the Portal Integration Kit?
6. Does MicroStrategy support JSR 168 and WSRP?
7. How much does the Portal Integration Kit cost?
8. How can I buy the MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?

1. What is the MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?

Enterprise portals are quickly becoming the single point of personalized information access for all users in an organization. Integrating portals with all enterprise applications, including business intelligence, is quickly becoming imperative in the pursuit of distributing and receiving business intelligence. Portal integration enables greater user scale and easier user adoption for your business intelligence using your existing enterprise portals.

Out-of-the box portal integration with IBM WebSphere®, Oracle WebLogic, Microsoft® SharePoint, and SAP® Enterprise Portal is available free with every Web server. In addition, the MicroStrategy SDK includes a Portal Integration Kit that provides details on how to further customize these portals, and integrate with other portals, such as Oracle® AS. The MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit provides developers with generic portlets to provide MicroStrategy reporting and BI functionality through their enterprise portal. It comes equipped with sample source code and documentation to give developers a head-start on integrating MicroStrategy into their portal.

2. What is included in the MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?

The Portal Integration Kit includes sample source code and documentation for embedding MicroStrategy reports and folders into a portal. As part of the sample code, MicroStrategy ships with generic portlets which provide the following functionality:

• Ability to seamlessly log on to the MicroStrategy platform.
• Ability to display a MicroStrategy report in the portal page and perform BI analysis such as drilling, pivoting, and sorting
• Ability to display a folder, browse through the folder, and run a report in the portal page.

In addition, using the framework provided by the Portal Integration Kit, one could easily extend functionality to display the history list and subscribed reports in the portal as well.

3. How can the Portal Integration Kit be used?

The Portal Integration Kit is a great starting point for developers to integrate MicroStrategy BI functionality with any commercial or homegrown portal. The Portal Integration Kit speeds developers' understanding of the basic integration workflow, the overall architecture, and how to use MicroStrategy API functions and portal API functions. Since the portlet API is different for different portal servers, developers need to make the relevant changes in the Portal Integration Kit to make ensure that the generic portlets can work with different portal servers.

4. What programming language is used by the Portal Integration Kit?

Developers can build portlets using the Portal Integration Kit in either Java or by using custom .NET tags. This allows developers to use the Portal Integration Kit with both Windows and UNIX environments and for different application servers and web servers.

5. What portals can my organization integrate with using the MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?

Developers can use the Portal Integration Kit to integrate MicroStrategy with any type of portal, and customize that integration as necessary. Out-of-the box portal integration with IBM WebSphere®, Oracle WebLogic, Microsoft® SharePoint, and SAP® Enterprise Portal is available free with every Web server. In addition, the Portal Integration Kit provides details on how to further customize these portals, and integrate with other portals, such as Oracle® AS.

6. Does MicroStrategy support JSR 168 and WSRP?

Yes. MicroStrategy is committed to adhering to all common industry open standards, such as Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 and Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP).

JSR 168 establishes a standard API for creating portlets and for the integration component between applications and portals that enables the delivery of this application through the portal. Without this standard, each version of an application would need its own portlet API and each portlet would need to be specifically tailored to a particular portal, raising development time, effort, and costs.

Web Services for Remote Portals (WSRP) are visual, user-facing web services-centric components that plug-and-play with portals or other intermediary web applications to aggregate content from different sources. They provide businesses with content in a form that does not require any manual content or application-specific adaptation.

7. How much does the Portal Integration Kit cost?

The Portal Integration Kit is shipped with the MicroStrategy SDK; by purchasing an SDK license, developers will have access to the Portal Integration Kit.

In addition, when you deploy MicroStrategy BI into portals via the Portal Integration Kit, the corresponding licenses for MicroStrategy Intelligence Server and Web/Web Universal are needed.

8. How can I buy the MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit?

The MicroStrategy Portal Integration Kit is not sold separately. It is included with the purchase of the MicroStrategy SDK.

To purchase the MicroStrategy SDK, please contact your account executive or contact us.