Harnessing the power

of data for

competitive advantage.

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MicroStrategy Analytics

is enterprise-ready
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Comprehensive dashboards

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Data discovery

Mobility

in a Security

single
Big Data

cohesive
Cloud deployment

in a single cohesive platform.

 The Data Discovery revolution is here.
Supercharged insight. Dashboards in minutes. Analytics for everyone.

Adobe Systems
”We are putting live data for the first time in
the company’s history in front of key executive
decision makers at a moments notice.”
– Jeremy Hadley, Sr. Manager, Business Intelligence
and Master Data Management

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Brilliant visualizations.
Discover patterns, trends, and relationships hidden
in your raw data with a suite of intuitive, interactive
data discovery tools. Stop looking at grids and start
visualizing your data.

Effortless dashboards.
Building self-service dashboards has never been
faster or easier. Quickly turn visualizations into an
enterprise-ready, pixel-perfect dashboard without
the need to start from a blank canvas.

Connect with a click, no IT needed.

Analyze any data regardless of where it’s stored.
No complex scripting, modeling, or SQL coding
needed. Create dashboards containing advanced
analytics and powerful visualizations in minutes, all
without the help of IT.

Data you can trust.

Get the best of both worlds. MicroStrategy
combines self-service productivity with the
security, scalability, and governance of enterprise-
grade business intelligence, which means there’s
no need to compromise between business agility
and data reliability.

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 Mobile apps powerful

enough for any job.

Secure enough for any data.

Build once, deploy anywhere.

Business users access and consume information
in many different ways. MicroStrategy makes it
Better access to data drives better easy to build and deploy analytics applications
business decisions. for the web, smartphones, and tablets without
writing a single line of code.
Most decisions are not made sitting behind a
laptop. They are made on the go—in executive And once you have set up your data
boardrooms and face-to-face with clients. environment and built your grids, graphs,
Mobile business intelligence brings information reports, and dashboards—deploy them as
to people wherever they are to help them beautiful, information-rich mobile apps with just
consistently make better decisions. a few clicks.

Lowe’s
”Thanks to the MicroStrategy platform, our store managers have access
to the sales data they need, from anywhere at any time, empowering
them to make vital strategy decisions on the fly. The [time and money]
savings have been considerable.”

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Finally, a mobile platform secure enough
to put highly sensitive data into the
hands of your mobile workforce.

Authentication – Multi-factor authentication via

Touch ID, passcode and certificate.

Device security – Native hardware security

including passcode, auto-lock, failed attempt limits.

Data protection – AES encryption for data at rest

and TLS encryption for data in transit.

Authorization – Access managed dynamically

based on profile and privileges.

firewall

Platform security – Multi-tier architecture to

MicroStrategy
mobile and web server ensure integrity of mobile computing / BI data.

firewall

MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy delivers the most secure commercially
intelligence server
available mobile platform in the marketplace. For
almost all mobile security requirements, customers
have everything they need within the MicroStrategy
platform: encryption of data in transit and at rest,
remote access revocation, support for certificate
server, single sign-on, credential management, user-
level security controls, and much more.

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 Sophisticated analytics on supersized
Big Data. Made simple.

Unlimited analytical power

Data summarization Trend analysis Benchmarking Relationship analysis Projections Optimization Predictions

Any data source

Enterprise applications Relational databases Cloud-based data Personal, departmental Big Data and Hadoop

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Big performance for Big Data
MicroStrategy makes it easy to transform your Big Data into
business insights. Analyze data located anywhere, regardless of
shape and size. Blend data from multiple sources and present it
clearly and cohesively. Leverage a vast array of advanced analytics
and predictive models to make intelligent decisions faster than
ever before. In-memory analytics ensures blazing speed and
performance, so you can fearlessly analyze the largest data sources
through intuitive, appealing interfaces.

Transform Big Data to agile data

Big Data can move slowly. Even the most heavily optimized Hadoop
queries may not deliver the speed-of-thought interactivity needed
for some users. MicroStrategy Analytics intelligently transforms
and aggregates petabytes of big data into targeted gigabytes of
in-memory data, ripe for agile data discovery. Preserving enough
detail to support deep investigation and find business insight, while
solving the performance challenges of Big Data.

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 MicroStrategy Secure Cloud:
Revolutionizing everything you know about business intelligence.

12:30 PM 100%

MicroStrategy Secure Cloud is the fastest,

easiest, and most cost-effective way
to deploy enterprise-grade, scalable
solutions that enable organizations
to work at the speed of business.
MicroStrategy Secure Cloud delivers
a comprehensive analytics platform,
mobile application framework, and
enterprise security platform that allows
customers to build powerful applications
quickly and at a low cost of ownership.

An enterprise-ready solution for analytics, mobility, and security.

Maintenance-free Uptime guarantees

Complies with industry standards 24x7 monitoring

Flexible pricing Vulnerability testing

Elastic and scalable Pre-configured and ready

in minutes

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 Enterprise-grade analytics meets

unlimited computing power.

Spend less. Get more.

MicroStrategy Secure Cloud delivers powerful
savings with zero capital expenditure on
infrastructure, making BI more cost-effective than
ever before. With MicroStrategy Secure Cloud, there
is no software or hardware to maintain, no costly
set up or configuration, and no facilities to manage.
Our team of experts manages every customer
environment at optimal efficiency.

Get a comprehensive platform.

MicroStrategy Secure Cloud brings together
world-class enterprise BI, analytical database, and
data integration capabilities in one integrated
service. It’s the full breadth of the MicroStrategy
platform, on-demand and optimized for the most

Speed to value demanding enterprise applications.

MicroStrategy Secure Cloud is

provisioned once you order and Be secure.
ready in minutes, so you can start
Securing customer data is our top priority.
building applications right away
The MicroStrategy Secure Cloud is built on a
without the wait of managing a
foundation of security from top to bottom, starting
complex infrastructure. Connect
with the platform infrastructure and extending
to existing on-premises or cloud
to our revolutionary mobile identity platform,
databases immediately with the
MicroStrategy Usher. MicroStrategy Secure Cloud
Direct Connect feature.
was designed to exceed even the most stringent
security requirements.

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 Enterprise analytics +
enterprise-grade cybersecurity

The MicroStrategy Analytics platform is designed to ensure the

security of valuable enterprise information. It offers a real enterprise
solution by seamlessly integrating robust security capabilities into
every business process and application.

Password-free user validation

Multi-level authentication

Touch ID access

Geo-fenced environment access

Time-based access restrictions

256-bit AES encryption

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MicroStrategy combines the world’s
most sophisticated analytics
platform with Usher, a revolutionary
mobile identity platform. It’s a
simple, seamless, and secure way to
verify user identity when accessing
and sharing critical corporate
information and insights.
Usher builds on the MicroStrategy
Convenient
Analytics platform, which already
offers best-in-class security features, Users can easily and quickly log into

including centralized security MicroStrategy using their favorite device,

administration, object-level access without typing in login credentials.

privileges, and more.

MicroStrategy takes enterprise
security to the next level.

Secure
Usher badges replace MicroStrategy user IDs
and passwords with secure biometrics, device
validation, and dynamic security codes.

Intelligent
Administrators get 360-degree visibility into
all network identity actions to analyze and
control user authorization patterns.

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 Thousands of industry leaders rely on MicroStrategy.

Analysts agree.

Product Capabilities — Q4 2014

Business Visual Interactive OLAP Public
Ease of Use Query Discovery Dashboards Mobile BI Administration
Reports Platform Cloud BI

SAP
Business Objects
BI Platforms

IBM
Cognos

Oracle BI
EE

MicroStrategy

QlikView
Specialty

Tableau

© BI Scorecard 2014
Legend: Excellent Good Limited Minimal/None Does not compete in this segment

BI Scorecard® evaluations are the only independent reviews of analytics solutions based on hands-on product testing, digging into
the details that most affect BI deployments. For more information, please visit www.biscorecard.com.

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 Brilliant, easy-to-use self-service visual analytics.
Download MicroStrategy Desktop and in minutes create stunning,
interactive data visualizations and data-driven stories.

Start an AWS Instance.

Get up and running in a matter of minutes,
with MicroStrategy Analytics running on
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.

To learn more visit:

microstrategy.com
info@microstrategy.com
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