MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards

A Dynamically Integrated View of All Corporate Data
MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards enable business users to intuitively flip through many different perspectives of corporate performance without ever leaving the dashboard, allowing them to quickly and easily identify problems and diagnose root causes. Dashboard designers can combine data from a variety of data sources onto a single dashboard, providing the user with multi-disciplined, multi-dimensional performance feedback on every dashboard. Visually Engaging Dashboards
By incorporating Adobe® Flash®, MicroStrategy dashboards offer innovative new ways for users of all skill levels to derive insight from their data. The dashboards are highly responsive to users, providing a wide range of information views and increased information exploration options through the unique features of Flash. MicroStrategy Flexible Rendering Architecture lets each user determine whether a dashboard or report is best presented in thin-client AJAX mode or interactive Flash mode. Portable, Self-contained Dashboards
Flash rendering allows MicroStrategy users to create self-contained dashboards that include full interactivity, visualization functionality, and data content. Users can interact with their dashboards on planes, present their dashboards in meetings, or analyze corporate performance at any location regardless of network connection availability.

Deeper Business Insight via Advanced Visualizations
MicroStrategy includes a new library of advanced visualization “widgets” built using the Adobe® FlexTM Builder TM 2 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Flash. These visualization widgets enable dashboards to express data in much more meaningful ways than is possible with traditional graph types. The rich and interactive nature of Flash can express relationships that are not possible with static graphs, such as allowing business users to view time-series data as graphical ‘movies’ that give deeper insight into business trends. Users can rewind and fast forward through the time series and even pause the movie to drill-down to get more detail on areas of interest.

100% Extensible, Allowing Users to Incorporate Any Data Visualization They Can Imagine
For this release, MicroStrategy delivers an extension to the Adobe Flex Builder 2 IDE, which allows MicroStrategy customers to extend their MicroStrategy visualization library in any direction. Using Adobe Flex Builder 2 and the MicroStrategy SDK, users can create any new Flex-based visualization widget they can imagine and insert it into their MicroStrategy visualization library. Customers can also use the Adobe Flex Builder extension to insert 3rd party Flex-based widgets into their MicroStrategy visualization library.

Empowering Business Users to Build Their Own Personal Dashboards
MicroStrategy Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards allow business users to create their own personal dashboards. Using MicroStrategy’s zero-footprint WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) Web interface, business users can create dashboards using simple drag and drop actions. No longer does the IT department need to create all dashboards for the business; users can now build the dashboards they want, increasing the use and adoption of business intelligence systems.

An Integral Component of the MicroStrategy 8 Platform
MicroStrategy’s modular and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has allowed MicroStrategy’s new dashboard functionality to be seamlessly integrated with its reporting, OLAP, ad-hoc, and proactive alerting functionality. MicroStrategy’s Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards inherit the industrial-strength attributes of the MicroStrategy 8 business intelligence platform, including enterprise scalability, pervasive security, and powerful administration, allowing MicroStrategy dashboards to easily serve thousands of users. With automatic personalization and security, a single dashboard can be cascaded throughout an enterprise with each user seeing only their slice of the enterprise and the data that they are allowed to see. MicroStrategy’s dashboards use firewall- friendly DHTML, so that dashboards can safely be shared beyond corporate walls.