MicroStrategy Cloud Review - why 3.7 stars?

Shlomi Lavi / updated: Apr 06, 2022

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What is MicroStrategy Cloud?

MIcroStrategy Cloud is a business intelligence solution that offers a combination of analytical database, enterprise BI and data integration capabilities in a single solution. The software can go up and running in just 48 hours and can give you immediate access to a platform that features the most advanced software and hardware to provide high performance.

MicroStrategy, the company behind this BI solution, was founded back in 1989. The company is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia and has won many awards so far for their BI solutions. The company has served about 4,000 companies so far.

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Who is it best for?

MicroStrategy Cloud is perfect for mid-size companies and global and national enterprises. Healthcare, communications and media, manufacturing, energy, financial services and food industries and government can use this software. LinkedIn, eBay and Starbucks are some of the clients of MicroStrategy Cloud.

Main features and functionalities

MicroStrategy Cloud comes with enterprise reporting, predictive and advanced analytics, high performance business intelligence, dashboard and scorecards features. The scoreboards and dashboard of this solution doesn’t require much programming skills to use and is very easy to read using tables, graphics, gauges, etc. The dashboard and scorecards feature OLAP functionality, mobile support, offline portability, assistance for WYSIWYG design, DHTML/AJAX compatible, multimedia content and hundreds of pre-defined KPIs for business scorecards.

The enterprise reporting feature comes with invoices and statements, production and operational reports, business reports, speed of thought analysis and intelligent cubes features. The predictive and advanced analytics feature comes with out-of-box OLAP, financial and stats function support, customer scoring, embed transactional capabilities for Android and iOS devices, consumer apps creating, drill down capabilities and hypothesis testing features.

What is the actual cost?

ITQlick pricing score is 6.4 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). Access ITQlick pricing guide for MicroStrategy Cloud. You can also find here pricing information from MicroStrategy Cloud's website.

Pros

• MicroStrategy Cloud offers Software as a Service deployment option and can go up and running in 48 hours
• MicroStrategy Cloud is perfect for mid-size companies and global and national enterprises
• The customer support of MicroStrategy Cloud offers phone and online support for users
• The business intelligence solution can handle large volumes of data from various sources
• The business intelligence tool comes with dashboard and narrowcast reporting options for users

Cons

• MicroStrategy Cloud’s graphing tool is not user friendly and can be difficult to use for some users
• MicroStrategy Cloud’s alerts and email distribution settings can be difficult to use according to some users
• Creating documents using MicroStrategy Cloud requires greater technical skills which can be a problem for some users
• Features like advanced formatting and new reports designing are only available for Pro BI developer pricing model
• The business intelligence solution offers critical 24x7x365 tech support only at an additional cost

How it stacks up?

Access a head to head analysis of MicroStrategy Cloud vs alternative software solutions.

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