Companies Can Freely Mix and Match BI Styles as Needed
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is the industry's first and only business intelligence server to provide all 5 Styles of BI on a single, unified architecture using a services-oriented architecture (SOA). Companies using Intelligence Server for their BI applications can freely mix and match different styles of BI as needed. New Intelligence Server plug-ins allow companies implement only the BI Styles they need and gradually add the functionality of other BI Styles as their needs expand and users master the new capabilities.

Common Set of Backplane Services Facilitate Rapid Deployment
With advanced security and management tools, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server provides cost effective solutions to deploy and manage BI applications at large scale. With current generation IT architectures, organizations often find that as applications become successful and widely adopted within the enterprise, associated administrative and management costs often escalate. Fragmented architectures result in multiple development teams with little to no reuse between applications, multiple security models and user groups to maintain and multiple administrators to deploy and support these applications. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server's integrated and flexible architecture provides the lowest total cost of ownership as it allows organizations to create a BI environment with a single security model, advanced parameterized reports and a common object repository, resulting in rapid deployments and reduced administrative and development overheads.

Ultra-High Performance with High User or Data Volumes without Increased Hardware Expenses
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server has been benchmarked to provide industry-leading performance while supporting the largest user populations and data volumes. Over the last decade, the average data volumes and number of users accessing BI applications has seen an exponential growth. System architects can be assured that their BI architecture based on MicroStrategy Intelligence Server will scale seamlessly with any future growth, and their technology investment will never become obsolete. With intelligent four-level caching, automatic load balancing and a unique ROLAP architecture optimized for each major database; MicroStrategy Intelligence Server supports transaction level analysis of terabytes of data for user bases in the 10's or the 1,000,000's.

Database Size	MicroStrategy Customers
0-25GB
250GB -1TB
1-5TB
>5TB

Perform Detailed Analysis Against High Data Volumes
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server's patented ROLAP architecture seamlessly accesses terabytes of data by fully harnessing the processing power of the database. Combining transaction-level data access with advanced built-in Analytic Services delivers the richest reporting and analysis in the industry. Intelligence Server supports this powerful transaction-level analysis with the following key features:

• Patented Multi-Pass SQL Engine: Intelligence Server's SQL Engine generates sophisticated SQL spanning several passes, which increases performance times by moving only the necessary data between the database and the server.
• Automatic Sparse Aggregate Awareness: Using a proprietary optimization algorithm, Intelligence Server automatically choose the tables from a database that will return user results in the least time. All database optimizations such as aggregates, indexes and partitions are fully utilized by the Intelligence Server SQL engine.
• VLDB Drivers Optimized for Every Leading Database Vendor: IBM DB2, Oracle, Teradata, SQL Server
  

Achieve Extremely High System Availability Out of the Box
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server enables organizations to deploy with confidence critical BI applications requiring extremely high uptime. BI applications are slowly but surely becoming a vital component of the business process infrastructure in many organizations. Analysts, managers and executives rely on these applications to make the right decisions on a daily basis, and any failure or lack of availability of these applications results in millions of dollars in lost productivity. MicroStrategy Intelligence Server has been architected from the ground up to allow organizations to deploy these applications with confidence. With built-in features such as clustering, hot failover and self-tuning, MicroStrategy customers can achieve 99.99999% uptime out of the box with little administrative overhead.