MicroStrategy Reporting Suite

MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is a free, commercial reporting tool for developing and delivering operational and analytical reports. Report outputs are HTML, PDF, Microsoft Excel, and text. Data can be presented in tabular grid reports, graphs and charts, and combination grid-and-graph displays.
The package is composed of server software for core analytical processing and job management, an end-user Web interface, Web-based reporting software, desktop reporting software, and a data architecting product. It is part of the unified MicroStrategy business intelligence architecture. The package includes a license for 100 users, and two free licenses for the other MicroStrategy products, including MicroStrategy Mobile, OLAP, and Distribution Services.
MicroStrategy Reporting Suite can also integrate with Microsoft Analysis Services (SSAS).
Features
* Design environment
* Centralized metadata builder
* Web interface
* Ad hoc reporting
* Analytic engine
* Parameterization engine
* Dynamic SQL engine
* Security engine for user, data and object level security
* Runs on Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems and is optimized for all major database platforms, Web servers, and application servers, including open source operating systems (Linux), databases (mySQL and PostgreSQL), Web servers (Apache HTTP Server), and application servers (Apache Tomcat and JBoss)
End-user features
* Formatting tabular grid reports using a choice of built-in styles
* Converting tabular grid reports to graphs and charts
* Conditional formatting of data and visual indicators
* Prompting or parameterized reporting
* Drilling down into granular level data
* Exporting to Microsoft Excel, HTML or text formats
* Multi-key sorting
* Printing
Further reading
* "Can a Leopard Change Its Spots? MicroStrategy Revamps Positioning, Pricing and Packaging" by Rita L. Sallam, Gartner, May 2009.

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