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MicroStrategy Web is a highly interactive, intuitive and simple-to-use interface for reporting, analysis and continuous business monitoring. With a look and feel that is exceptionally crisp and clean, MicroStrategy Web has been designed specifically to fit the needs of business users who find intuitive and simple to use. They will immediately recognize tools, techniques and formats familiar to any user of the Internet or common Windows® applications.
MicroStrategy Web supports all enterprise users across all 5 styles of Business Intelligence :
Features at a Glance
- Easy to use, personalized reporting, analysis and monitoring
- What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) report design
- Full BI functionality on a zero-footprint, browser independent and fully customizable interface
- Rich user interface with innumerable analytical and formatting features
- Fully interactive, pixel perfect scorecards, dashboards and reports
- Full BI functionality on a browser-independent interface
- Guided ad-hoc report building and analysis
- High user and data scalability
- Centralized application, object and data level security
- Open XML architecture for Web Services
Benefits at a Glance
- Enjoy lowest total cost of ownership
- Manipulate data to make informed business decisions from insightful analysis
- Create reports and apply changes to design swiftly using the WYSIWYG feature
- Collaborate and communicate critical business data with colleagues easily
- Access all scorecards, dashboards and reports in a single Web interface
- Transparently present business information acquired from a variety of enterprise data sources on a single point of access
- Benefit from a platform application that is easy to maintain and deploy
- Incorporate BI with existing web-based applications quickly and easily
- Provide your users with a BI tool so easy to use that they can start analyzing critical business data right away
Product Highlights
‘Windows on the Web’ Simplicity on a Browser-Independent Interface
MicroStrategy Web’s intuitive array of manipulations delivers full BI functionality through a zero-footprint, browser-independent interface. Any user who is familiar with a basic Windows application can easily navigate information, access vital reports, perform insightful analysis and monitor key business metrics using familiar techniques and Windows-like paradigms such as:
- Drag and Drop Report Manipulation
- Drop down menus
- Right click, context sensitive menus
- One-click toolbars
Drag and Drop
Drop-down Menus
Context-sensitive Menus
One-click Toolbars
Presentation-Quality WYSIWYG Report Design
For report developers and business analysts, MicroStrategy Web provides unparalleled design for editing reports. These reports can take the form of highly analytic cross-tabular reports, print-perfect operational reports that are hundreds of printed pages, or highly visual and pixel-perfect scorecards and dashboards. Through a zero-footprint interface that provides the full range of reporting and analysis needs, MicroStrategy Web combines the precision of a desktop publishing tool with the ease of use of Excel.
Cross-tabular Reports
Operational Reports
Scorecards
Dashboards
Highly Flexible Interface
A single MicroStrategy Web interface can be tailored to meet requirements of each user depending on the skill and function level. Through centrally controlled privileges, users can be granted more functionality as their skill levels and needs require. This increases user adoption and overall effectiveness since the interface can match the capabilities of the business user.
Platform Independence
MicroStrategy Web's design enables it to run on a wide range of application servers, web servers and operating systems. With a platform independent Java architecture at its core, MicroStrategy Web provides organizations a choice of a thin layer of Java Server Pages (JSPs) or Active Server Pages (ASPs). End users receive the exact same functionality and experience regardless of an organization's choice of application server, hardware or ASP/JSP front-end.
MicroStrategy Web supports leading application and web servers including IBM WebSphere, Oracle WebLogic, Sun Java System, Oracle AS, SAP NetWeaver, JBoss, Microsoft Internet Information Server and Tomcat.
Rich User Interface
MicroStrategy Web offers tools that designed to be simple but powerful enough to provide users with full control over the design aspects of a report. Toolbars on the report and document pages which are organized into ribbons or tabs to simplify the display and make functions easily accessible. Enhanced colors, gradients, images, context menus, drag-and-drop manipulations, editors, multi-select and the WYSIWYG design feature provide a rich and user friendly interface.
Workgroup Collaboration
MicroStrategy Web makes it easy to share information. Users can email reports to other users, schedule reports for regular and event-based delivery, publish reports to workgroups and export reports to Microsoft® Excel, PDF and HTML formats. Also, users can add notes to reports to discuss the data and design specifications without changing the original definition.