| Vendor |
MicroStrategy |
SAS |
| Business Intelligence Comparison |
| Vendor Bio |
MicroStrategy Incorporated is a worldwide provider of business intelligence software that enables companies to report, analyze and monitor the data stored across their enterprise. MicroStrategy provides sophisticated analytical performance to every business user in the format that suits them best, from high-level dashboards to custom reports and advanced analysis via e-mail, Web, fax, wireless and voice communication channels. |
Since 1976, SAS has been the driving force behind innovative and powerfully driven business analytic software and services. They equip thousands of users with the key facts to successfully transform data into profit for companies of all types around the globe. SAS is a leader in the business analytics market and continually is evolving with further innovative solutions to empower its customers to fluently organize data from their current customers, financials, and product performance into knowledge that leads to greater decision making and profitable management. |
| Vendor Highlights |
- Rated a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008.
- Strong, comprehensive and unified BI functionality – reporting, real-time business monitoring, integration, and analysis.
- On-demand BI solution was built from the ground-up by MicroStrategy.
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- Exceptionally strong in advanced analytic analysis.
- Full analysis power revealed in the hands of uses with knowledge of SAS programming.
- Subscription-based pricing model.
- Rated a leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence Platforms, 2008.
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| Business Intelligence Solution |
MicroStrategy 8 Business Intelligence Solution |
- SAS Business Intelligence Solution Suite
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| Business Intelligence Solution Highlights |
- Provides advanced reporting technology with a more intuitive user experience and delivery via the Web, giving more users access to report information.
- Delivers the detailed information that impacts decision-makers throughout the enterprise. Individuals at all organizational levels and job functions, as well as supply chain partners and customers, rely on powerful, flexible enterprise reporting systems that present targeted data in the most consumable format for day-to-day operations.
- With easily configurable dashboards, scorecards, and portals, MicroStrategy 8 provides the ability to deliver detailed data on current and historical operational performance so people can see what is happening across the enterprise, and how well the business is operating
- Supports advanced and predictive analysis capabilities, enabling users for the first time to perform analyses such as hypothesis testing, churn prediction and customer scoring models within a single unified web interface.
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- Delivers self-service reporting, a robust business user view of data, intuitive and familiar wizard-driven interfaces, and unlimited report authors and consumers.
- Provides ad-hoc and managed reporting, and integration of analytic results and processes.
- Provides an integrated environment for predictive analytics and descriptive modeling, data mining, text mining, forecasting, optimization, simulation, experimental design and more.
- Gives you a range of techniques and processes for the collection, classification, analysis and interpretation of data to reveal patterns, anomalies, key variables and relationships, leading ultimately to new insights for guided decision making.
- Presents data in charts, graphs and maps integrated within multiple BI applications
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| Customer Focus |
MicroStrategy serves thousands of the world’s leading companies, including 7 of the top 10 global retailers, 9 of the top 10 global pharmaceutical companies, and 8 of the top 10 global telecommunications companies. |
SAS solutions are used at 45,000 sites in 109 countries. Customers include 91 of the top 100 FORTUNE Global 500 companies. |
| Happy Customers |
Lowes, Netflix, Healthcare Partners, Samsung, Borax, Herbalife, Comcast, Hallmark, Amlin, Astra Zeneca. |
1-800-Flowers.com, Kraft, Affinity Health Plan, Nedbank Retail, Nationwide, OMV, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, Redcats USA, Canada Post, Steelcase. |
| Business Intelligence Technology |
MicroStrategy’s on-demand BI solution is built and delivered from MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, the industry’s most advanced, scalable secure and robust business intelligence server. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides the core analytical processing and job management for all reporting, analysis and monitoring applications. Employing a Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA), MicroStrategy Intelligence Server makes it easy to standardize on a single, open platform for all an enterprise’s reporting and analysis needs through a number of access channels: Web browsers, Microsoft Office, Desktop clients, and emails. It is the first and only BI server to provide the full range of BI applications through a unified metadata and a single integrated server running on Windows®, UNIX, or Linux. |
SAS technology is state-of-the-art and while they are evolving better and faster business solutions for companies around the globe, they are also staying in tune with the latest technology in delivering those solutions. SAS offers OnDemand and various options in SaaS hosting solutions for companies. They are committed to your enterprise and what it requires to stay on the competitive edge of business. |
| SaaS Delivery |
Yes |
Yes |
