# Page 2 | MicroStrategy Analytics Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is MicroStrategy Analytics the right Business Intelligence solution for you? Explore 62 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/250435/MicroStrategy-Analytics/reviews --- MicroStrategy Analytics 4.3 (62) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of MicroStrategy Analytics ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 62 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Mário P. manager Leisure, Travel & Tourism Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Lots of functionalities. We have more than 10 year for 100 users" February 22, 2019 4.0 Reports to stackholders. Reports to clients. Pros Versatile - Dashboard, charts and lists: analyze from a more macro perspective or go to the line detail • Flexible - Receive reports by email and create alerts (datamining). Use dynamic filters or create your own personal analysis online • Available - access via Web, Office andMobile New ways to explore data (Dashboards) Tailor made reports with scheduled deliveries Ability to provide customers with OnLine access to Reports and Dashboards Crossing information from multiple Base Data + creation of new InHouse objects New ways to explore data (Visual Insight, Dashboards, Drills) Accessing OnTheGo Information via Mobile Fast + information + dynamic Cons Sometimes is not an easy learning curve. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer System Analyst Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Outstanding business intelligence assistant without a doubt" January 13, 2023 4.0 Pros In my company, we regularly conduct analytical reviews of various aspects of our business using Microstrategy. I can analyse data in real time thanks to the adaptable nature of this software and the attractive dashboards. One of the many things I liked about it was the ability to use business intelligence for data mining and predictive analytics. Cons This tool's licence fee is quite pricey, which I considered to be a disadvantage. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Project Manager III - Vice President Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great reporting and analytics tool!" October 13, 2017 5.0 Pros The dashboards and reports that MicroStrategies is able to produce are beautiful, insightful, actionable, and informative. We have been using them for portfolio management and production reporting for several years and are pretty happy. Cons The setup can be cumbersome and the software did take awhile to learn. It's not incredibly intuitive like some of the programs I have used in the past, but the results are worth the efforts. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Intelligence Analyst & Developer Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "I studied the competition to see if this product was up to the other BI leaders (gartner). " April 6, 2018 4.0 you can set different user roles and levels easily. I was able to advise on this product Pros It works with the main Operative System, it doesn't need a expensive hardware to run. Excellent training program (not too expensive). It is easy to automate the sending of reports to user lists (great the report tool too because allow you to switch from a table to a chart in real time). It is a web based solution so it is accessible from any device from anywhere. generally user friendly because it helps the user to create the data cloud without having a thorough technical knowledge of SQL or programming. It is compatible with most data sources with connectors. An important and unique feature is that of being able to insert comments, note and share the analysis. Cons It takes a long time to configure the software the first time (installation and connection to server). Old-fashioned design, the Desktop environment can be a bit more intuitive and quick. Has a licensing system that is a bit too complicated. It should be improved data export functionality. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Systems Analyst Gambling & Casinos Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "An Intuitive BI Tool For Building And Deploying Powerful Analytics" September 27, 2020 5.0 MicroStrategy has been very helpful BI reporting tool in the Enterprise Data Warehousing project, due to its features like scalability, data discovery, transnational speed and high availability of data connectors. It makes the generation of weekly/monthly reports and personalized dashboards simpler by offering powerful out-of-the-box customizable reports and ability to leverage visualizations such as Bar Charts, Pie Charts, Histograms, Scatter Plots, Gantt Charts, Treemaps, Geospatial Visualizations etc. Pros In the Enterprise-wide complex Data Warehouse, MicroStragety reporting tool can connect to to the various data sources, may those be Relational or Non-relational and Cloud Systems too. This enables the overall architecture to import/export the data to/from them. The high availability of data connectors is the most helpful feature of the product. Cons The traditional reporting functionality needs little improvisation so that end users will be able to view the reports in the transitional/basic formats as per their requirement. The reports may also need to be broken down to requested granularity by business end users. Review Source Andrew R. Senior Director of Finance Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Love MSTR" July 23, 2019 4.0 Pros Ease of use: as a non-SQL user MSTR allows me to quickly and easily get the data I need in the format I need it in Cons Learning curve can be steep. Also charts and graph functions are lacking in the detailed formatting options you need to make a dashboard presentable for executive presentations Review Source NN Nelson N. Software Developer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "One of the best Business Intelligence and Reporting Software" December 11, 2021 5.0 I use it everyday in my company to manage our data and create reports to evaluate the strengths of our strategies and understand what we can do to improve our business. Pros I have been using MicroStrategy for 5 years and have nothing but good to say about it. Very good reporting and data analytics platform, where I can obtain data from several sources and do my analysis. I like it because I can create a very powerful report, to present to my Team Leader. Cons The only thing it happens is when I am working with large sizes of data it becomes a little slow, but not much of a worry. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Product Design and Industrialization Engineer Automotive Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A very comprehensive data analysis tool" February 5, 2019 4.0 Pros This is a very powerful software that allows us to manipulate mountains of data into usable reports. There are tons of options of how to format and organize the data into various reports for different audiences. The possibilities are basically endless. Cons It's not a very intuitive user interface, and can be very difficult to figure out the best way to accomplish a certain look for the reports you're generating. Often times, trial and error seems to be the best way to go. As I gain experience with the software, I'm sure this will become less of an issue. Review Source EC Eduardo C. BI Architect Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy to use and very appealing interface" September 6, 2017 5.0 We have a reliable and appealing platform to report our daily results. MicroStrategy also allow to implement changes and add new data and objects in a matter of minutes into our production platform. Pros It is faster to implement and do not require too much customization. Most of the widgets and features are ready to use. The admin and user interfaces are intuitive and they do not generate errors or bugs during installation or heavy use by the end users. Very stable and reliable platform. Cons Price. They initial investment is higher comparing to another bundle software (Power BI, Tableau). However, the extra licensing is not very expensive since we can pay by active user. There is also a free end-user product (Desktop) that is focus on analytic end-users that do not require to modify objects but accessing dashboards and reports. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer BI Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Greate performance kind of expensive" October 20, 2020 4.0 It is a really useful tool and love the way you can customize a lot of stuff. Also the way they manage the creation of dimensions and metrics. One thing to keep in mind is the manage of the historical changes, it can be a mess Pros It really have a lot of features and customization you can make. From metrics level and aggregations to web plugins. Cons The pricing, it is really expensive if in the organization doesn't use it really often. Need a really good server for grand amount of information Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Analyst - Financial Services Analytics Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Really Improved with recent updates " November 22, 2018 5.0 Pros I used to not be a fan of microstrategy’s analytics / BI software, but they seem to really listen to their customers and improve their software with every release. I especially like the enhancements to the geographic data features and visualizations in their recent release. Turning GIS data into an aesthetic map chart is simple now. Cons While microstrategy’s software has improved greatly in recent releases, I still think the forecasting functionality could be improved. You can’t do as much with forecasting in this software than you can in some competing software. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer President Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "In-depth Product, Great for Enterprise, Too Heavy for Small Business" March 8, 2019 4.0 Overall it's a great tool, and is best served in a large organization when you can spend time setting up an in-depth project. I have used most major components of the tool for business intelligence and reporting projects at large organizations and the users have been satisfied. For a small or medium sized business who does not have time to invest heavily in the infrastructure, I would recommend a "lighter" program. Pros It has an immense amount of features, functionality, integrations, and plug-ins that can be used to better analyze data. It also has a strong analytical engine. It covers just about every need for enterprise business intelligence. Cons It is a heavy platform to setup, requiring dedicated servers, and in-depth knowledge on the application itself. It is not easy to architect a project without having specific training of the tool. It is fairly complex for developers. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Lab Tech Biotechnology Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A well organized and useful software that could use some aesthetic improvement " April 2, 2019 4.0 MicroStrategy is a powerful analytic tool that we use to pull anything from lab data to customer service performance stats. It is customizeable and has a great multitude of functions. Pros I use this software to run reports on DNA samples that I process at my job. It is intuitive and well organized. I learned how to use it very quickly. It has convenient features such as labels that appear when you hover over an icon. I also have not had any issues with it such as lagging or crashing or other functional failures. Cons The only room for improvement is the web design. Adding some colors, bigger icons, and reorganizing the display of options would make it easier on the eyes and brain and more delightful to use. Review Source SA Saurabh A. Manager Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Microstrategy" October 22, 2019 4.0 Its pretty easy and compatible product to learn and my client used it extensively for Reporting and Dashboard Pros Excellent User Interface Lot of Drag and Drop features so new Users can learn this pretty easily Lot of default virtualization and dashboards are present Cons Data cache memory is not large enough to hold terabytes of data Join across different databases is not straighforward Review Source SC Sara C. Sr HR Compliance Food & Beverages Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A Million Applications" May 8, 2019 5.0 Pros This software is so versatile. It let's me slice and dice data from a variety of sources into user friendly dashboards and reports. Cons Building a new dashboard can be tedious but I'm not a programmer by trade. I have been able to isolate the reporting sources and fields and build my own dashboards it just hasnt been as fast or simple as I had hoped. Review Source PA Pierre A. CIO Logistics and Supply Chain Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great tool" November 2, 2016 5.0 Hello, Microstrategy is a great tool for Business Intelligence. Many years after the beginning of the company, they knew how to follow up their product. Best product in terms of self-service bi, vizualization, reporting and scalability ! We've tested a lot of reporting tools ( BO, Qkvw, Tableau, Oracle) but none of them are better on the full list of functionalities of Microstrategy. Pros Number of functionnalities compared to challenger Cons Before the v10, Microstrategy was late on specific topics but now they did the good investment for the future. Review Source HJ Henrijs J. BI specialist Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Clumsy BI tool" September 9, 2020 4.0 I have had experience with 5 top tier BI tools and Microstrategy was the poorest (still its better than not top tier tools) Pros Speed of the software when loading multiple dashboards are great once everything has been properly defined. Easy to update DWH and microstrategy connection. Cons Challanging to do metadata and mark the correct dependencies. Design is outdated a bit Hard for end user to learn how to make ad-hoc reports for themselves Review Source ASS Abu Syed S. Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "The ideal software" January 15, 2020 5.0 Pros When i first started to use MicroStrategy, i was skeptical. The reason behind my skepticism was the huge amount of features that they offer. Usually it bounds to make the quality go down. However,for this particular software,it didn't happen. It's a great experience that helped me move up the ladder in the short span of my career. Cons The software can be a little slow sometimes. Sometimes the scaling is not perfect. The slow learning curve is also an issue. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Teaching Assistant Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Helpful tool for Business Analytics" December 5, 2018 4.0 The overall experience was good. I used it for about 1 year while I was working for Business Analytics. Pros I like the desktop version of it more. Its very easy to create metrics and use them in different reports. Multiple people can work together on a particular project. Cons Get small bugs that really trouble sometimes. Also, the customer support is not very robust. There are forums but cannot find trusted answers to all the problem-related queries. Review Source Margaret C. Sales Representative Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great for reporting" January 25, 2019 4.0 Pros This tool is very dependable and easy to customize, has great visualization and very user friendly interface. It is very good for reporting. Cons Its installation was not the easiest and took quite some time. It is also quite pricey. Review Source AM Amanda M. Executive Assistant Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Best Reporting/Analytics Software Ever!" February 10, 2019 5.0 Pros This software is super easy to use and manipulate data for various kinds of reporting. It has helped me find shrink issues more than once. Cons The only con is that it needs to be used in conjunction with a retail software. I would recommend using Mi9. Review Source GN Guy N. Developer Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great BI tool, should be learned first" March 20, 2022 5.0 Pros I liked the schema and shared objects. The way that you can get to the inside of the SQL code and understand how things work is great Cons You have to take the courses to develop correctly, otherwise you could make mistakes Review Source Gökhan C. Real Estate Agent Real Estate Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good presentation but it is slow" August 26, 2019 5.0 It is good for weekly usage but slow for daily usage Pros Visual effects and graphics were brilliant Cons But it processeed data very slowly getting a report for an analysis was time consuming Review Source Simon L. Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "null" July 7, 2016 3.0 Review Source Todd G. Business Intelligence Developer Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "What can't Microstrategy do?" October 29, 2019 5.0 I started using Microstrategy from day 1 at my job and I loved the ease of being able to drag and drop different data points onto a dossier. That was just so amazing. I learned the ins and outs and actually moved my way onto the Microstrategy Team to help develop it and bring it to more people. Pros The thing that I like most about this software is the ability that it has to bring in multiple different sources, from multiple different data types and allow the user to use them and present them in a way that is easily understandable. For example on my day to day job I work with excel files, data warehouse queries, and other kinds of data. I am easily with in a couple of minutes able to put all these different data types into one dossier for easy view and consumption for anyone in my business with a Microstrategy License. Cons There are a couple things that I don't like about Microstrategy. There are somethings that seem like they should have been there the whole time, for example if I wanted to look at trends over day, month, or week previously I would not be able to do that without creating a workaround for it. They are coming out with a release soon that will make that possible and easy to accomplish. I just feel like it should have been ther from the beginning Review Source Similar Products Featured