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Top 10 Reasons Why OEMs Choose MicroStrategy for Analytics

Organizations are always on the lookout for ways to stay competitive, enhance their service offerings, and generate new

revenue streams. In today’s data-driven business environment, the most popular applications are those that deliver fact-

based insights to users. From personal and commercial banking services, to travel websites, online stores, social media sites,

and more, the opportunity to use data to enrich applications is everywhere. By leveraging data, organizations can deliver

more than just a “good experience.” They can deliver truly value-added services in their applications and uncover valuable

new insights about app usage patterns and customer behavior.

Build vs. Buy Decision

Organizations looking to embed analytics and reporting into

their applications face the choice of building their own in-house

solution or customizing and embedding an existing analytics

product. For many organizations, the cost and expertise needed

to build an in-house application can be overwhelming. That’s

why rather than building from scratch, organizations today are

increasingly either customizing open source software or going

with the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) approach to

inject analytics into their products and services. OEM partners

who specialize in business intelligence can provide a cost

effective, thoroughly tested, highly secure, and scalable solution.

Why MicroStrategy?

We at MicroStrategy have invested heavily in our customers

by having:

1. Focused long term vision that helps organizations around the

world pursue our vision of intelligence everywhere.

2. Access to a vibrant eco-system of experts, certified partners,

MicroStrategy developers, training professionals.

3. Commitment to innovation across our comprehensive product line

4. Dedicated on-boarding programs with dedicated sales support,

joint marketing programs, and expert services.

MicroStrategy provides a robust enterprise-grade platform

that enables OEMs and other technology companies to avoid

the massive investments in time and money needed to build

a custom reporting and analytics layer for their enterprise

applications. Our open framework delivers support for multiple

platforms and devices, as well as hundreds of optimized

connectors to relational databases, cloud sources, big data

sources, and more. It provides sophisticated administration

and data connectivity tools, a unified metadata layer, and

an unparalleled in-memory architecture. It’s everything an

organization needs in an analytics platform: enterprise-grade

security, high performance, scalability, and data governance—all

delivered with the lowest total integration cost in the industry.

Read about the top 10 reasons why OEM partners choose

MicroStrategy to deploy embedded analytics into their solutions.

Our customer needs are constantly changing,

and MicroStrategy is always changing with us

and there to deliver outstanding support. We

work with MicroStrategy on a week-to-week basis,

helping to make sure that they take our needs into

consideration, and getting the enhancements and

bug fixes we need to help our client base.

—Scott Frye, Manager Development

Care Coordination, & Analytics, Allscripts

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1. Comprehensive Analytics: Dashboards, Data Discovery,

Mobile, Predictive Analytics, and Transactions

OEMs looking for an embedded analytics solution need more

than just a subset of analytical capabilities provided by a point

solution. They need a future-proof platform that allows them to

grow incrementally.

MicroStrategy provides a single, cohesive offering that empowers

both IT professionals and business users to fully harness the

power of their data. MicroStrategy is the only analytics platform

on the market that combines enterprise-grade performance,

scalability, and security with easy-to-use interfaces and workflows.

Users can build any type of information application, from banded

reports and interactive dashboards, to data discovery applications

and sophisticated mobile apps. MicroStrategy offers a powerful

range of analytical capabilities that can scale to meet the

requirements of any IT professional, data analyst, or business user.

Dashboards—MicroStrategy provides the capabilities needed

to build production-ready dashboards that enable faster, more

informed decision-making and can be used by thousands of users

across an organization.

Data Discovery—MicroStrategy supports enterprise-grade data

discovery that’s fast, easy, and governable. These capabilities make

it easy for business users to quickly connect to nearly any source

and start analyzing data through intuitive workflows and interfaces.

Mobile—MicroStrategy Mobile is the fastest, easiest, and most

affordable way to mobilize existing information systems and web

applications currently trapped on the desktop. These mobile

capabilities are fully integrated into the MicroStrategy platform, so

it’s easy to leverage existing visualizations, reports, and dashboards

to instantly deploy them via the MicroStrategy Mobile app.

Predictive Analytics - While MicroStrategy offers a strong set of

native analytical functions, the platform also allows organizations

to leverage third-party statistical and data mining software

within their enterprise applications. The R Integration Pack allows

analysts to deploy R analytics as standard MicroStrategy metrics.

Transactions – MicroStrategy provides mobile write-back

capabilities that let users update systems of record from the field.

Users can change data on the fly, insert new information, and view

updated reports and dashboards—all from their mobile device.

Beyond these, there are many other capabilities—such as

banded reports, distribution, alerting, and geospatial analysis—

that organizations can leverage to transform their data into

real-world intelligence.

MicroStrategy offers a comprehensive set of enterprise analytics capabilities in a single unified platform, from data discovery to enterprise reports, predictive analytics, real-time transactions, and mobile analytics.

MicroStrategy Enterprise Analytics

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2. Extensive Customization with Workflows

A true enterprise-grade platform should give organizations the

ability to modify and extend out-of-the-box functionality to meet

their unique needs. It is common for organizations to invest in

multiple technologies that need to interface with one another,

and embed analytics that deliver a consistent, branded look and

feel across multiple platforms.

The MicroStrategy platform provides a sophisticated service-

oriented architecture that delivers the flexibility and extensibility

organizations need to deploy and grow applications as their

business evolves. MicroStrategy makes it easy to customize

applications by providing access to all its functionality through an

extensive set of APIs.

OEM partners can use their industry expertise to create custom

analytics applications that leverage the powerful functionality of

the MicroStrategy platform. They can customize MicroStrategy

and reskin applications on both web and mobile with SDK toolkits

to deliver a consistent experience that leverages their own

unique, branded workflows. OEM partners can also inject analytics

into a completely white-labeled application in order to deliver

fully customized applications to customers.

Additionally, OEMs can embed MicroStrategy into their own

enterprise portals. MicroStrategy offers out-of-the-box portlets

designed to take advantage of the mechanisms of various portal

applications, without requiring any adjustments or changes.

With the portal integration, organizations can provide BI content,

portlet-to-portlet communication, single sign-on, interactivity with

MicroStrategy Web, enhanced personalization, and much more.

In this live application, users can find detailed information on schools and districts, such as student performance metrics, enrollment rates, and funding levels.

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3. Open Framework and Unmatched Extensibility with Rich APIs

A platform that includes open APIs gives organizations the

flexibility to extend out-of-the-box functionality to meet custom

requirements—such as creating custom connectors to data sources

not natively supported by the platform, consuming data via custom

applications, and pushing external data into applications.

With RESTful APIs, organizations can use MicroStrategy as a data

source to quickly extract subsets of pre-processed data in JSON

format. This addresses a key need for large enterprises and OEM

partners that consume data through MicroStrategy’s governed

and secured architecture via customized business applications.

Organizations can also use RESTful APIs to push external data

in JSON format into in-memory cubes on the MicroStrategy

Intelligence Server. This way, users can readily consume, process,

and analyze data—unlocking new end-user workflows and

opportunities for partner integrations.

As data sources evolve and new ones become available,

organizations need to be able to quickly tap into data stored in

these locations. Using MicroStrategy, organizations can leverage

HTML and JavaScript to build custom connectors for these

sources. By doing so, users can gain access to any data source

without waiting until it is officially certified on the platform.

MicroStrategy also integrates with third-party and open source

JavaScript visualizations, so users can tell even more compelling

stories with their data. MicroStrategy provides APIs, tools,

samples, and documentation to help users build custom HTML5

visualizations using open source and commercial libraries like D3

and Google Charts.

Deliver top-notch custom applications with embedded analytics

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VISUALIZATION SDK

D3 | GOOGLE CHARTS | ...Build a new HTML5 visualization

using open-source libraries like D3

and Google.

WEB SDK

PORTAL INTEGRATIONUse MicroStrategy

reports/dashboards as

components in your portal.

REBRANDINGCustomize MicroStrategy and

reskin applications on Web

to include unique and

branded workflows.

WEB SERVICES APPLICATIONS100s of out-of-the-box APIs to

connect to applications via

web services

HTTP

XML

REST API

CUSTOM WEB APPLICATIONExtract subsets of

pre-processed data to be used by

external applications.

JSO

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HTT

P

PUSH API

THIRD PARTY DATAAS MICROSTRATEGY DATASETPush datasets directly into the

MicroStrategy platform and

populate it with data using

RESTful API calls.

3rd party application

MicroStrategy cube

MOBILE SDK

WHITE LABELINGMatch your corporate branding

to a tee with custom app, splash

screens, and login screens.

MICROSTRATEGY WIDGET IN CUSTOM APPExtend the MicroStrategy Mobile

app to embed MicroStrategy in

an existing custom app.

CUSTOM WIDGET IN MICROSTRATEGY APPBuild a custom widget, with its

own custom properties, that

automatically consumes and

displays MicroStrategy data

in a mobile device.

DATA CONNECTOR SDK

BUILD CUSTOM CONNECTORSBuild your own connectors to

custom data assets and provide

users access to any data source

without waiting for them to be

certified by the platform.

DATAIMPORT

and more...

EMBEDDING API

EMBED VISUALIZATIONS IN YOUR WEB APPSCustomize interactivity with

charts and graphs inside

third-party web applications.

CLOUD API

CLOUD DEPLOYMENTCustomize admin portals

with your brand to manage

your project.

S M T W T F S

A list of all the APIs that customers can use to leverage existing technology investments and build custom branded applications.

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4. Object-oriented Metadata That Delivers a Single

Version of the Truth

An object-oriented architecture is critical for any analytics

platform as it catalogs every aspect of the business. Data assets,

KPIs, dimensions, users, reports, and dashboards, are all stored in

a central location as unique logical objects to support reusability.

For OEMs designing embedded BI applications, this metadata is

key because it helps to anchor multiple floating points to set the

stage for a secure and governed application.

The core of a MicroStrategy deployment is the centralized

metadata repository, which is a collection of objects, as defined

by developers, that can be reused across the BI project. Objects

can be combined to create higher level objects, like reports,

dashboards, and applications. With this resource, developers can

reuse objects hundreds of times across the enterprise, without

any duplication of effort. Changes or modifications made to

any object in the metadata automatically proliferate to all other

dependent objects, which eliminates the need to manually

update changes across multiple reports and documents—a

critical capability for large deployments. This model not only

permits the deployment of applications without any duplication

of effort, but also enables secure object reuse across the BI

deployment. The unified metadata is the key to ensuring fast

development times, seamless platform scalability, efficient

application management, and a single version of the truth. 

MicroStrategy makes it easy to quickly develop BI applications while reducing maintenance burdens with its object-oriented, reusable, and fully dynamic metadata repository.

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5. Architecture for Flexible Multitenant Deployment

The increased adoption of cloud computing and virtualization

technology has made multitenancy a critical requirement in

today’s IT environment. In a multitenant environment, multiple

customers share the same application, running on the same

operating system and hardware, with the same data storage

mechanism. Advantages of this type of multitenant environment

include easy upgrades, fast deployments, and overall cost savings.

When deploying multitenant applications, organizations

are faced with the task of giving each tenant a personalized

experience while minimizing administrative and infrastructure

overhead. With MicroStrategy’s multitenancy capabilities, OEM

customers can benefit from powerful, custom applications that

are built on a single architecture. The MicroStrategy platform

enables organizations to efficiently share a single application

across thousands of tenants, create tenant-specific applications, or

combine both approaches. In shared application deployments, it’s

easy to tailor a single set of dashboards so content is personalized

for each customer in terms of data security, branding, and naming

conventions. For instance, a single dashboard might refer to

“Guests” when viewed by one company and “Customers” when

viewed by another in a different industry. Sharing resources

can result in more efficient administration, reduced resource

consumption, and lower overall TCO.

Multitenancy enables an OEM’s various customers to experience custom applications, all built on a single architecture.

Complete isolation

(rare with MicroStrategy)

Server sharing (Partial Isolation)

(common with SaaS vendors with <100 tenants)

Application sharing (Partial Sharing)

(common with SaaS vendors with data separation requirements)

Complete sharing (Optimum TCO)

(common with SaaS vendors with large data sets)

Hybrid

(Large/unique customers may have their own databases or

projects. SaaS vendor likely charges extra)

KEY:

Intelligence Server

Project

Database

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6. Enterprise-grade Performance and Scalability

OEMs require exceptional performance from applications so they

can deliver speed-of-thought reporting regardless of data volume,

report size, or other variables. An ideal enterprise platform should

leverage sophisticated query, caching, and computing techniques

to ensure internal processes are completed with maximum speed

and efficiency. A platform that fails to maintain high performance

in the face of increasing data volume can gradually erode your

business by reducing internal productivity and frustrating users.

Designed from the ground up for unmatched performance,

MicroStrategy delivers sub-second response times, even on

the industry’s largest datasets. A key component of this is

MicroStrategy’s support for push-down analytical functionality,

which drives computations intelligently to the database when

needed. This shortens overall response times and improves the

end user experience. Also, MicroStrategy can create multiple,

parallel threads to the database, further increasing the speed

at which data is fetched from the warehouse. The platform is

based on an in-memory architecture that can partition cubes and

process data in parallel, which lets organizations process larger

cubes, faster.

Compared to other large international BI vendors

and large enterprise BI platforms, MicroStrategy

has been a market leader in computing large data

volumes for several years. Survey results confirm

that MicroStrategy is not only used in large

scenarios but it is also able to handle very large

data volumes.

—The BI Survey 16, BARC

MicroStrategy is optimized for speed at enterprise scale, supporting

high-performance reporting and analytics for hundreds of

thousands of users across the enterprise. Organizations can ensure

performance and reliability across the entire user population with

work- and user-fencing, as well as clustering of up to eight nodes.

Additionally, with MicroStrategy, there are no restrictions on data

size for either direct or in-memory sources. Today, MicroStrategy

customers can leverage in-memory cubes with over 2 billion

rows while delivering sub-second response times to end-users.

MicroStrategy is also the only comprehensive analytics vendor

that supports big data analytics with native connectors to HDFS to

access petabytes of data in real time.

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7. Exceptional User Experience with Governed Self-Service

Self-service analytics is an essential requirement for OEMs. To be

truly impactful, these self-service applications need to provide

user-friendly access to the same types of powerful analytical

tools and sophisticated interfaces typically used by developers.

In addition, they need to include automated data management

features that allow business users to selectively access, blend,

and explore enterprise data on their own. This functionality needs

to be available without IT assistance, and the platform needs

governance procedures that help ensure business users can align

their personal data with trusted enterprise sources in order to

avoid reporting conflicts.

Unlike data discovery point solutions, MicroStrategy combines the

ease of data discovery with enterprise capabilities like scalability,

performance, security, and governance—all in a single platform.

The MicroStrategy metadata model makes it possible for anyone

with the right privileges to promote new and external content

to the server and tie it to a certified data model with ease. Users

can map the metadata at the dimension level, as well as the

cube level, so they have the flexibility to control the data that is

published to the model. The platform supports governance for

data from disparate sources, even external non-certified sources.

This enables organizations to build a system of record that users

can trust, while also delivering the speed and flexibility business

users demand. 

The MicroStrategy platform allows anyone with the right privileges to promote new and external content to the server and easily tie it to a certified data model.

Genesys empowers some of the world’s most powerful customer experiences and MicroStrategy plays a

key role in helping us differentiate ourselves in the market through its extremely easy-to-use interface and

world-class platform. —Praphul Kumar, Senior Director Design & Analytics, Genesys

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8. Support for Multiple Platforms, Multiple Devices,

Multiple Interfaces, and Hundreds of Data Sources

Organizations need access to a wide variety of data sources, while

ensuring data reliability and consistency. Users must also be able

to explore this data on any platform, device, or interface without

roadblocks or limitations.

With MicroStrategy, organizations can roll out analytics across

the enterprise using on-premises, cloud, or hybrid deployment

options. The platform is supported on both Windows and Linux,

and can be clustered with up to eight server nodes. By partnering

with AWS, the leading cloud vendor, MicroStrategy allows

organizations around the world to spin up their own instances in

minutes, giving companies the freedom to start small and expand

as needed. Users can consume and interact with data on iOS and

Android devices, on the web, or even offline.

MicroStrategy provides instant access to nearly any type of data

with out-of-the-box connectors to sources including personal

spreadsheets, enterprise data warehouses, and big data systems.

MicroStrategy delivers optimized connectivity to 80+ RDBMS,

MultiDimensional eXpressions (MDX) cube sources, Hadoop

systems, and cloud-hosted data sources. The combination of

these powerful connecters with MicroStrategy’s multi-pass SQL

engine, push-down architecture, and data blending capabilities

makes the MicroStrategy platform uniquely suited to provide

optimized performance and unmatched data access.

MicroStrategy’s open architecture supports multiple platforms, operating systems, and devices.

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9. Comprehensive Security with Single Sign-On (SSO) Support

Enterprise BI platforms interact directly with your critical business

data, so it’s essential that these platforms deliver robust security at

every level of the BI architecture. A true enterprise BI system must

be able to: authenticate users, control access to metadata objects,

validate users on mobile devices, and encrypt communications

across the entire analytics ecosystem. Given the increasing frequency

and scale of data breaches, enterprise security should be of paramount

concern for every organization looking for an embedded analytics

solution. Platforms that lack end-to-end security, or have inefficient

workflows for security administration, put your organization’s critical

enterprise data at risk.

Many corporations have a single, centralized security directory

which governs user access to internal systems and applications

across the entire enterprise. MicroStrategy integrates seamlessly

with security directories through linked authentication, also called

external authentication. Benefits of linked authentication include

reduced administration and maintenance of users in the BI system

and increased ease of use for end users. With automatic, linked

authentication, users typically use a single login to access both the

network and the MicroStrategy platform. Business users can move

freely between all BI and other enterprise applications without

maintaining multiple logins and passwords. This single sign-on

capability further simplifies administration and maintenance of security

profiles and groups. MicroStrategy helps implement single sign-on

by leveraging a company’s existing security infrastructure to deliver

a seamless experience for end users. Identity management systems,

portals, and other third-party applications that are part of a company’s

larger security infrastructure can all be integrated with MicroStrategy.

The MicroStrategy security model is built around the concepts of

users and user groups, which are represented as logical metadata

objects. These objects help to ensure that data is secured at the most

granular levels. Role-based security filters ensure that individuals

can only see data that is relevant to them. This eliminates the need

to build multiple versions of the same application, which saves

development time and simplifies large-scale deployments. With

MicroStrategy, administrators can also apply Access Control Lists

(ACLs) to large user groups, restricting the range of data objects they

can access or actions they can perform.

MicroStrategy’s security model provides granular control for administrators and personalization for end users.

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10. Powerful Automation and Administration Tools that

Reduce TCO

Sophisticated automation and administration tools are essential

for any OEM deployment. These tools should reduce the

complexity of managing a production system and include

workflows for automating manual tasks, including: life cycle

management, data integrity checking, and platform monitoring.

Platforms with inefficient, non-unified administrative systems will

become more difficult to monitor and manage as a deployment

scales. This can lead to poor performance, security vulnerabilities,

and increased TCO.

MicroStrategy delivers a centralized administration console and

powerful tools that let organizations monitor, automate, and

control deployments with fewer administrators. These tools allow

administrators to monitor every environment in a MicroStrategy

deployment, across multiple projects and servers, both on-

premises and in the cloud.

In a single interface, administrators can quickly and easily view

usage patterns, system resources, uptime, and alerts related to

all their projects and environments. They can easily maintain

and upgrade systems, automate workflows, manage objects and

migrations, do regression testing, and ensure superior data quality

and security — all without the need for any redundant work.

Thus, administrators can reduce the time and effort spent on

routine maintenance and administrative tasks, like moving assets

from test to production environments, checking data quality, and

scheduling health checks.

For over 25 years, MicroStrategy has been building software

that helps organizations transform their data into real-

world intelligence. Our software helps people discover new

opportunities, make better decisions, and drive real results. We

believe analytics is the key to unlocking a smarter enterprise and

transforming the way people work.

For more information about partnering with MicroStrategy, visit

our OEM page microstrategy.com/us/company/partners/oem

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