. What is MicroStrategy Intelligence Server™?
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is the
industry’s most advanced, secure and scalable business intelligence server.
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides
reporting and OLAP analysis for the whole enterprise. All business users can
obtain scorecards and dashboards, operational reports, queries and OLAP and
predictive analyses without learning any programming or database syntax.
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides one
centralzed architecture for all users’ monitoring, reporting and analysis
requirements. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server also provides scalability to
analyze any amount of data, support for any number of users and a 24 X 7
operating environment, with robust security.
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is certified
on Windows, UNIX, and Linux operating systems. MicroStrategy Intelligence
Server has been designed to be a completely open architecture built on industry
standards and compiled to run on multiple operating systems.
Please consult the product Readme file for the latest information about specific operating systems versions and patches that are supported
Please consult the product Readme file for the latest information about specific operating systems versions and patches that are supported
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is engineered
to be platform-independent on a single code base and is simply compiled
appropriately for each certified operating system. As a result, MicroStrategy
can release Intelligence Server on all certified operating systems at the same
time with the same features.
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides
an industry first — a common code base architecture for all supported 32- and
64-bit operating systems. This single code base ensures that the latest
functionality is always available on all these operating systems at the same
time.
A BI application can access much greater memory
resources when running on a 64-bit systems than it could on a 32-bit system.
More addressable memory results in more BI applications, more sophisticated
applications, more reports, larger reports, better performance and more users —
all with fewer servers. Organizations can combine MicroStrategy’s industry
leading scalability with the advantages of 64-bit UNIX to deploy the richest BI
applications, with the highest performance and the most users.
No, business users can run any query without
learning any programming languages or database syntax. MicroStrategy
Intelligence Server automatically and appropriately processes all business
questions by accessing a report cache or Intelligent Cube, or by generating
dynamic SQL or MDX that is optimized to each data source platform.
Yes. Every component of a BI application can be
translated and presented in multiple languages, including all MicroStrategy
user interfaces, metadata objects such as the names of reports and documents,
and data within a data warehouse.
Yes. MicroStrategy MultiSource Option is a new
and fully integrated add-on component of MicroStrategy Intelligence Server. It
allows users to seamlessly report, analyze, and monitor data across multiple
sources through a single business model.
A cache contains the properties and data of a
report once a report has been run. Caches can be stored in memory and/or on
disk. When users ask for a report that is cached, the Intelligence Server will
retrieve the data from disk or memory instead of running a query on the data
source. Cache creation and usage securely leverages other users’ work,
increases query performance and reduces the workload on the data warehouse.
Intelligent Cubes are in-memory caches stored
by the Intelligence Server. While accessing an Intelligent Cube, users can
easily add or remove report objects (such as attributes and metrics), add new
metric calculations and filter their view of the data — all in an ad hoc
fashion with speed-of-thought response times. Data stored outside an
Intelligent Cube is automatically accessed using the ROLAP engine when drilling
to more details.
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server can
scale to any amount of data by leveraging your database’s strengths. Using Very
Large Database (VLDB) drivers, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server automatically
tunes its operations to leverage the unique strengths of your database software
and hardware.
14. Can MicroStrategy
Intelligence Server scale easily and cost effectively based on my growing
needs?
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides
out-of-the-box clustering capabilities that allow corporations to leverage
their initial investments and gradually scale as more users and data are added
to the system, or when different styles of BI are required.
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides
complete fault tolerance and fail-over support to maximize the uptime of your
application.
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
maximizes system performance at all layers of your system. Intelligence Server:
·
Leverages
the unique strengths of each database software and hardware using VLDB drivers.
·
Uses
four levels of report and dataset caching to optimize performance for
documents, reports, analyses and prompt lists.
·
Increases
analytic performance with its Intelligent Cubes. Users or administrators can
schedule creation or refreshing of Intelligent Cubes during low usage time
periods.
·
Minimizes
network traffic by sending users only the result sets they want to view.
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server users can
easily perform simple to sophisticated analyses such as basic performance
indicators, market basket, churn, retention and decile analyses. Users can make
use of a complete library of statistical, mathematical, financial and OLAP
functions. Other types of analyses include hypothesis testing, regressions,
neural networks, decision tress, clustering and bond calculations.
18. Can I use my homegrown functions
or integrate with existing third-party statistical and data mining software?
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server allows
enterprises to integrate their homegrown functions as well as third-party
software using an advanced plug-and-play architecture. Predictive Models
created by third-party data mining software can also be imported using PMML
(Predictive Markup Language).
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides a
highly robust security model at four different layers in your system:
1.
User
level – Login and ID authentication ensure users have authorization to access
the MicroStrategy system.
2.
Application
level – Access control lists and user privileges ensure proper access to MicroStrategy
objects and functionality.
3.
Data
transmission level – Encryption and dual firewall configuration ensure safe
transmission of data.
4.
Data
level – Security filters ensure users access only the data they have
authorization to view.
20. Can users access
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server using LDAP, data source or Windows
authentication?
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
integrates with LDAP and Windows security systems. Users will only need to
login with their LDAP or Windows login to access MicroStrategy projects through
Intelligence Server.
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server’s
centralized architecture provides one console from which all maintenance and administration
can be performed. In addition, a standardized data dictionary for enterprise
reporting and OLAP analysis is stored in a metadata repository and enables
reusable reporting objects and business rules.
MicroStrategy has both Windows- and UNIX-based
administration tools. UNIX and Linux administration is provided through a
Java-based Control Center. Both the Windows administration tools and the
Java-based Control Center provide local or remote administration and monitoring
of all Intelligence Servers in the BI implementations.
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is available
in English (US and UK), French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
(Brazilian), Swedish, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Korean and
Japanese.
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server integrates
with other system management software. In fact, all inner statistics of
Intelligence Server are published to Performance Monitor and diagnostic logs.
As a result, third-party system management software such as IBM® Tivoli® or
CA’s Unicenter® can remotely monitor these statistics.
Yes, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server supports
time-based and event-based schedules. These schedules automatically trigger
report execution and place a notification message in the user’s History folder
upon completion.
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server wins over its
competitors because it solves all issues that corporations face when implementing
a query, reporting and analysis solution. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
provides the solutions required for a successful enterprise business
intelligence system: full range of analysis, support for any number of users,
support for any amount of data, iron-clad security, world-class reliability,
easy administration and maintenance, and high performance.
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server installs in
minutes and automatically presents a configuration wizard to connect to the
database. Within an hour, the installation and setup can be completed.
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server easily
integrates with your existing data structure with its support for the major
types of schemas like Star, Snowflake, Hybrid, Denormalized, Normalized and
Aggregated Schema. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server also integrates with SAP®
BW InfoCubes and QueryCubes.
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is the
analytical server that processes all requests from all MicroStrategy end users.
Intelligence Server is the central product that links all MicroStrategy
components to the data warehouse.
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server can access
data in all major databases including Oracle®, IBM DB2®, Microsoft® SQL Server,
Microsoft Access®, Microsoft Excel®, Teradata®, Sybase®, Red Brick®, Informix®,
HP NeoView, HP NonStop SQL/MP, Netezza®, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Greenplum, Kognito,
Vertica, Aster nCluster, text files, and other ANSI-92 compatible relational
databases. It can also access multidimensional data sources such as SAP BW,
Hyperion Essbase, and Microsoft Analysis Services. Additionally, Intelligence
Server can access data from EII sources including Composite, Oracle Transparent
Gateways, IBM WebSphere Information Integrator, and MetaMatrix.
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server can
execute multiple reports simultaneously. When report results are ready they are
saved in a personal History folder.
Yes. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server uses XML
to transfer data. This enables organizations to present information from
Intelligence Server to end users through multiple mediums including the Web,
email and web services.
