MicroStrategy Intelligence Server™ Benefits
Rapidly Deploy any BI Application with the Lowest Total Cost of Ownership
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides cost-effective solutions to deploy and manage BI applications at any scale. With competitive BI architectures, organizations often find that, as the demand for applications increases within the enterprise, associated administrative and management costs escalate dramatically. Fragmented architectures result in multiple development teams, little or no re-use between applications, disparate security models, as well as more user groups to maintain and administrators to deploy and support the applications. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server's unified, flexible architecture provides the lowest total cost of ownership as it allows organizations to create a BI environment with a single security model, advanced parameterized reports, and a common metadata repository, resulting in rapid deployments and reduced administrative and development overhead.
Freely Mix and Match BI Styles as Needed
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is the industry's first and only business intelligence server to provide all styles of BI on a single, unified architecture. Companies and departments can rapidly develop any BI application using a common metadata and seamlessly add new services as needed.
Manage Large User Populations with Minimal Hardware Costs
Successful BI applications motivate user adoption. Unfortunately, many BI applications do not scale efficiently to support the growing demands of an increasing user population. Therefore, hardware costs can grow exponentially. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is designed to be the most efficient and scalable BI server in the industry. Intelligence Server delivers more reports to more business users across the enterprise with the minimum amount of resources. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server considerably reduces the amount of hardware needed to support BI applications thanks to several key architectural components:
- Multi-threaded engines leverage the full power of today’s symmetric multi-processing systems (SMP)
- Multi-level shared caching delivers increasing performance as more people use the system
- Self-tuning engines adapt to constant changes in user activity
Perform Transaction-level Analysis against Large Data Volumes without Sacrificing Response Time
Database vendors invest heavily in optimizing their relational database management systems (RDBMS) to keep up with the proliferation of data. Each RDBMS provides many strategies to deal with this trend. Thanks to its next-generation ROLAP engine, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server can push much of its processing down to the database, leveraging and complementing each vendor’s strengths to provide maximum query performance at the highest data scale.
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server’s ROLAP engine optimizes performance in several ways:
- Multi-pass SQL breaks down a complex query into simpler, more manageable pieces
- Aggregate awareness automatically selects the optimum tables to resolve a query
- Very large database properties automatically tune the SQL for maximum performance
- SQL global optimizations provide an additional layer of optimization for multi-pass SQL queries with sophisticated metrics
Support Global Deployments with a Single BI Application
Business Intelligence applications empower users to make the right decisions at the right time. Increasingly, organizations are deploying these applications across different regions and countries. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server allows IT organizations to develop and maintain a single BI application that is deployed in many languages. With MicroStrategy there is a single set of reports, analysis, and dashboards for all users regardless of their local language. There is no need to maintain duplicate metadatas or objects, which results in considerable savings across the enterprise.
Leverage Central and Distributed Administration Models for All BI Applications using Comprehensive Management Tools
MicroStrategy provides more granular control over administrative and management responsibilities than any other BI vendor. With MicroStrategy, organizations can choose to distribute administration and operational tasks to business users within individual departments. This empowers individual departments and effectively frees up the organization’s limited IT resources.
Achieve Extremely High System Availability Out of the Box
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server enables organizations to quickly deploy the types of mission-critical BI applications that require extremely high uptime. BI applications are becoming a vital component of the business process infrastructure in many organizations. Analysts, managers, and executives rely on these applications to make the right decisions on a daily basis, and any failure or lack of availability of these applications results in lost opportunity and productivity. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server has been architected from the ground up to allow organizations to deploy their BI applications with confidence. By taking advantage of built-in features such as clustering, hot failover, and self-tuning, MicroStrategy customers can achieve 99.9% uptime out-of-the-box with little administrative overhead.
Support More Users, More Data, More Applications, and Experience Higher Performance with Fewer Servers
Through a highly scalable, platform-independent architecture that runs on all major operating systems and hardware platforms, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server delivers industry-leading Business Intelligence capacity.
This unparalleled BI capacity is only possible thanks to the dramatic increase in addressable memory provided by 64-bit technology. MicroStrategy Universal delivers all the benefits of 64-bit technology and platform-independence directly to the hands of the user. These benefits include:
- Highest user and data scalability
- Fastest performance with virtually unlimited memory for caches
- Hardware standardization and application consolidation, reducing overhead and maintenance costs
- Unlimited BI functionality