Features | Benefits | FAQs

1. What is MicroStrategy Web?
MicroStrategy Web is a web-based query and reporting software.

2. What can a user do with MicroStrategy Web?
Through the Internet, users can query a data warehouse and view the results in clearly formatted tables or graphs, also called reports. They can further manipulate the results through sorting, pivoting and drilling. Users can then save, print and export these reports.

3. Who could use MicroStrategy Web?
Company employees and business partners can use MicroStrategy Web to access and understand information. Through the interactive web pages, they can analyze market trends, manage inventory, collaborate and run marketing campaigns.

4. What are the business benefits of using MicroStrategy Web?
MicroStrategy Web allows companies to distribute information to their employees and partners quickly and cost effectively. As a result, these employees and partners will have the information they need to improve processes and revenues, significantly impacting the bottom line.

5. What kind of information can users access with MicroStrategy Web?
Users can access any corporate information in the data warehouse. They can also access both summary and detailed level information depending on their security profile.

6. How can users build reports through MicroStrategy Web?
Through an intuitive wizard, users are guided through the steps in building a report. These steps are presented as simple questions with familiar business terms and phrases. When the reports are completed, users can format their reports.

7. How can users manipulate the reports in MicroStrategy Web?
As a query and reporting software, MicroStrategy Web offers a wide range of manipulation functionality. Users can sort, pivot, group by and page through the results.

8. How do users make reports and documents look professional?
Users can choose to view their data using more than 30 different chart types. Different presentation styles for the reports are available out-of-the-box. Users can pick the most appropriate one or create their own style.

9. How does MicroStrategy Web integrate with the rest of the MicroStrategy platform?
MicroStrategy Web is the web-based solution of the MicroStrategy platform. MicroStrategy Web sends query requests to the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server to build queries, create reports and deliver high quality documents.

10. How does MicroStrategy Web integrate with my system?
Through the XML API, MicroStrategy Web can be easily customized to integrate into an existing web site. Moreover, MicroStrategy Web can integrate with the existing security model such as Windows or LDAP authentication.

11. What do users need to access MicroStrategy Web?
Users only need to have a browser installed on a machine connected to the Internet. MicroStrategy Web uses only pure HTML and does not require any downloads or plug-ins.

12. What is the recommended hardware configuration for my Web Server to run MicroStrategy Web?
The recommended hardware configuration for a Web Server is a PC compatible with a 300 MHz Pentium Processor or equivalent with 128 MB of RAM and 2 GB of available hard drive space.

13. How does MicroStrategy Web provide a secure environment?
Security experts recommend double firewalls for the highest security. This architecture efficiently protects corporate data from external attacks. MicroStrategy supports this architecture as security has always been one of our major concerns. Our customers in Finance and Healthcare have the most exacting requirements.

14. How long does it take to learn MicroStrategy Web?
MicroStrategy Web uses widely accepted elements found on popular web pages such as Yahoo! and Google. As a result, MicroStrategy Web is highly intuitive and customizable. The training effort is minimal.

15. How much effort is required to build a customized web interface?
There are two ways to customize the interface. The current MicroStrategy Web interface can be simply modified. Otherwise, a customized web interface can be built using MicroStrategy Web API. Both should be fairly straightforward for someone familiar with web technologies, HTML and ASP in particular.

16. What printing capabilities are available in MicroStrategy Web?
MicroStrategy Web offers industry-standard postscript printing via PDF to compensate for the limited printing capabilities of browsers. Users can preview the reports before sending it to the printer. The number of rows and columns on each page can be easily changed by users.

17. What exporting capabilities are available in MicroStrategy Web?
Users can export their reports to Excel, Lotus, plain text or HTML. The reports can then be integrated into larger documents or used into different applications. If users require access to data from Microsoft Office then the project would benefit from using MicroStrategy Office.

18. What types of graphing capabilities are available in MicroStrategy Web?
MicroStrategy Web offers all the major graphing capabilities available in Microsoft® Excel. There are more than 30 different charts that can be used.

19. How many users can access the MicroStrategy Web at the same time?
MicroStrategy Web is built upon a highly scalable architecture. We have shown in a whitepaper that MicroStrategy Web can easily accommodate 400,000 users with only three 4-CPU web servers.

20. Can MicroStrategy Web display multiple tables, images and other information on the same page?
Yes. Users can create documents using MicroStrategy Desktop which are then viewable in MicroStrategy Web. A document contains pictures, Internet hyperlinks, text, charts and tables. Users have complete freedom to create and design the document that they need.

21. To what extent can MicroStrategy Web be personalized?
Each MicroStrategy Web user has a unique security profile. Access to some application functionality, or specific reports and data can be defined on a per user basis. The MicroStrategy Web pages will adapt and display only what each user is allowed to see.

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