MicroStrategy OLAP Services is an extension of MicroStrategy Intelligence Server that provides In-Memory BI for MicroStrategy Desktop, Office and Web users. In-Memory BI dramatically improves response times for returning BI results. Additionally, it has enhanced analytical capabilities so business users can create their own data comparison groups on-the-fly to benchmark business performance with each other.
Features At A Glance
- High performance In-Memory BI: faster reporting means more reports and analysis for more people than ever before
- Derived Elements: creating user-defined business (attribute) groups for comparison analysis for interface
- Custom Attribute Calculations
- Custom Attribute Filters
- Custom Attribute Lists
- Save and Share Derived Elements with other users
- Dynamic Sourcing: an automatic check of each report request to access data from an Intelligent Cube wherever possible before issuing a query to a database
- Intelligent Cube Sharing: all users can access the same Intelligent Cube data
- Seamless Cube Navigation: Drill from cube to cube, with no hard coded links
- Prompts and Security Integrated Automatically: Leverage the power of prompting and personalization automatically against Intelligent Cubes with no additional setup.
- Cube Advisor: a new tool that recommends an optimal set of cubes to build to improve performance
- Transparent Deployment: this MicroStrategy Intelligence Server plug-in is deployed without any service interruption to the end user on the Web or Windows®
Benefits At A Glance
- Higher performance at any scale
- Reduced workload on every part of the system:
- Less database query time: more users share the same query results in an Intelligent Cube
- Less MicroStrategy Intelligence Server query generation time: more users share the same query results in an Intelligent Cube
- Developer Transparency: new reports hit the fast new Intelligent Cubes automatically, no special direction, no hard coded links
- User Transparency: users investigate and analyze data faster since cube Intelligent Cubes are automatically sourced whenever possible
- Easy Cube development: two clicks to make a cube from an existing highly used report
- Familiar Cube Development Interface: as simple as making a report
- Optimized Memory Use: a new Intelligent Cube Monitor and Cube Advisor provide insight into server resource utilization
- Create, Save, Reuse, and Share Derived Elements over a zero-footprint Web interface
Why MicroStrategy OLAP Services?
- Optimize investments in expensive resources such as data warehouse capacity
- Minimal setup and maintenance in the BI system for administrators
- Intelligent use of limited BI server resources
- Superior performance even at the highest scale