Trends in
MICROSTRATEGY
Analytics
ANALYTICS PLATFORM
Sanju Bansal
Co-Founder
About MicroStrategy
Company
Technology
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Top independent analytics
software platform vendor
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Long-time market leader
and innovator in analytics
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20+ years old, publicly traded
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Approximately $600M revenue in 2012.
No debt, $200M+ cash in the bank
Unique unitary architecture,
known for high performance and scalability
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Revolutionary Cloud-based analytics services
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Innovations in mobile commerce and identity
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Global presence with operations in 23
countries
Analysts
Customers
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Leader for six consecutive
years in Gartner’s BI
Magic Quadrant
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Millions of business users
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Thousands of mission-critical
applications
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Leader in Forrester BI Self Service Wave
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#1 Ranked Mobile BI Vendor by Gartner &
Dresner Advisory
Nearly 4,000 customer institutions globally
across all industries and government
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Top ranking BI vendor in the BI Scorecard
Customers range from Global 500 giants like
Chevron and Carrefour to cutting edge
technology innovators like eBay and LinkedIn
Analytics in Action
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Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)
US Postal Service
US Center for Medicare & Medicaid
eBay
Starbucks
BIG DATA
Unlock Value In Big Data Assets
Taming Big Data
Collect
Transform
Take Action
Capture Atomic Detail
Data from Business
Processes
Manipulate, Transform,
Aggregate, Distill
Do Something
• Volume
• Performance and Scale
• Variety
• MapReduce as a Language
• Velocity
• High Speed Data
Transformation
• Requires Organizational
Resolve
How are you transforming “unactionable
petabytes” into “actionable gigabytes”?
Analytic Requirements in a Typical Organization
Agile
Analytics
Systems of Record
Business Intelligence
Big Data
Analytics
Rapid-fire data
discovery
Operationalize analytics to
elevate performance
The power to unlock your Big
Data assets
• Intuitive Data Exploration
• Unmatched User Interfaces
• Access All Your Data
• Fast Dashboard Development
• Highest Performance and Scale
• Combine Data from Multiple Sources
• 100% Governable
• Trusted System-of-Record Reliability
• Advanced Analytics Transform Big
Data into Insight
• Easy, Cost-Effective Administration
Web or Mobile / On-Premises or Cloud
AGILE ANALYTICS
Rapid-Fire Data Exploration and Dashboarding
Visual Data Discovery is Revolutionary
Lightning Fast Insights, Easy for Everyone, No IT Required
Visual Data Discovery
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Stunning visualizations
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On-screen filtering
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Speed-of-thought in
memory database
Common Use Cases
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Interactive data
exploration and root
cause analysis
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Dashboard creation
Visual Data Discovery takes you from data to dashboard
in less than ten minutes.
A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words
Every User Becomes A Professional Data-Journalist
Self-Service Dashboards
Drag-and-Drop to Build Great Dashboards in Minutes
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Discover new insights.
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Add more visualizations
from any data source.
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Quickly apply formatting
and set up filtering.
Save your finished dashboard.
Great for prototyping or production.
A Dashboard Is Only As Good As Its Underlying Data
Be Wary of Style Without Substance
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Data
Metadata
Metrics
Attributes
Hierarchies
Facts
Transformations
Governance is the soft underbelly of standalone
Visual Data Discovery tools like Tableau and Qliktech
Agility and Governance Can Coexist
Promote Unmodeled Metadata Back to the System of Record
Business User
Enterprise Data with
Governed Metadata
Personal and Cloudbased Data Sources
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Access
system-ofrecord data
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Access local
or Cloudbased data
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Metadata
Promote dashboard
design metadata to
system of record
Harmonize agility and governance.
SYSTEM OF RECORD
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
Operationalize Analytics to Elevate Performance
System of Record Business Intelligence
Operationalize Analytics to Align the Business and Elevate Performance
Unmatched Interface
Web • Mobile • Portals • Office
Dashboards
Reports
Statements
Visual
Discovery
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Production dashboards
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Operational reports
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Build once, deploy
anywhere
High Performance
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Push-down analytics
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In-memory cube
acceleration
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Dynamic sourcing
Flexible, Reliable, and
Easy to Manage
Data From Across the Enterprise
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High-efficiency object reuse
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Powerful SDK
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Comprehensive admin tools
Production Dashboards
Easy, Guided Decision-making for Mass Consumption
* According to BARC’S BI SURVEY 12. “Megavendors” are Oracle, SAP, IBM, and Microsoft.
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Comprehensive
data
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Easy to use
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Guided workflow
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Personalized for
each user
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Online or distributed
via email
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Multimedia
content-enabled
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Transaction-enabled
Production Reports and Professional Statements
Reports
Statements
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Clear and concise data delivery
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Branded, pixel-perfect experience
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Personalized to the viewer
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Interactive capability
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Subscriptions, programmatic refresh
and distribution options
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Powerful mass distribution
capabilities
* According to BARC’S BI SURVEY 12. “Megavendors” are Oracle, SAP, IBM, and Microsoft.
Build Once, Deploy Anywhere
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Build
once
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Web
Browsers
Portals
Deploy via any media
Email
Enterprise
Applications
Email
Mobile
BlackBerry
iOS
Documents
Android
PDF
Office
BIG DATA ANALYTICS
Unlock Value In Big Data Assets
Combine Data from Multiple Sources
Fast Access to Federated Big Data
Business users and developers access the entire Big Data
ecosystem as if it were a single database.
MapReduce
Databases
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Columnar
Databases
Data Warehouse
Appliances
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Relational Databases
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Multidimensional
Databases
User / Departmental
Data
Bring All
Relevant Data
to Decision
Makers,
No Matter
Where It
Resides
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2&3
Advanced Analytics – Analytical Maturity Model
Analytical Maturity
Climb the Analytical Maturity Model to Outsmart and Outperform Competitors
Projections
What is likely to happen based on
past history?
Relationship
Analysis
What factors influence activity or
behavior?
Benchmarking
How are we doing versus
comparables?
Trend Analysis
What direction are we headed in?
Data Summarization
What is happening in the
aggregate?
From Big Data to Business Value
Any Data
Relational
Multidimensional
Comprehensive
Analytics
Projections
Relationship
Analysis
Hadoop-based
Benchmarking
Structured
Semi-Structured
Unstructured
Trend Analysis
Data Summarization
Actionable Insight
Questions?