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Microstrategy to make self - service BI available
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 21 April 2011, 23:43 IST
Bangalore: Microstrategy, one of the leading providers of business intelligence software introduces a brand new tool called Visual Insights.
Visual Insight is a part of Microstrategy 9.2 which was generally made available on March 30, 2011. This new tool visual insight helps business people explore data to get the answers they need quickly and without assistance from their information technology (IT) teams.
It also allows organizations to implant even more information in rich interactive dashboards and share them with co-workers with more visualization and information, while Microstrategy's security measures block individuals from seeing data they aren't authorized to view. And it further extends MicroStrategy's performance at the highest scales of user populations and database sizes.
A view demonstration in Microstrategy website was conducted where the company showed how a worker can make use of visual insight to analyze on-time performance of airports in the U.S. The demonstration then shows how the airport pins could be color-coded based on their on-time percentages. It goes on to crunch the data down further, segmenting the airports by state and the number of flights, and also shows how the same data can be viewed in other forms, such as a graph index or "heat map."
Visual Insight can tap data in a few different ways, including directly through Microstrategy's ROLAP (Relational Online Analytic Processing) engine. It's also compatible with the company's MDX (multidimensional expression) engine.
Microstrategy is touting the browser-based tool's ease of deployment, saying customers can deliver it as internal software as a service.
Visual Insight gives business people a better way to analyze data that is simple, powerful, and fast. Hence it gives immediate answers to business operations, Access Data from Across the Enterprise, Anyone Can Become an Information Publisher and gives Insight-as-a-Service.
