Analyst praise for the MicroStrategy Reporting Suite...

“Given the product capabilities, migration path, and support, it seems like a deal too good to be true…. [T]he appealing aspect [of the MicroStrategy Reporting Suite free offering] is that it provides customers with an easy entrée into BI, without that entrée being a total throw away. If customers later want to add dashboards or multi-source, for example, they don’t have to start over or migrate to a new product as is often the case with many departmental BI tools.”

–Cindi Howson, Founder, BIScorecard
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“MicroStrategy recently created a major stir in the industry by offering its fully functional MicroStrategy Reporting Suite for up to 100 business users at no charge! This bold move will allow MicroStrategy to change the market perception that it only offers high-end BI tools, expand its footprint into smaller applications and thereby grow the number of companies it does business with.”

–Wayne Eckerson, Director, TDWI Research

“MicroStrategy is dramatically simplifying the adoption of enterprise strength reporting by providing organizations the ability to download and quickly deploy a set of free reporting software that is easy to use. By providing departments and workgroups with a reporting package that is quick and easy to deploy, MicroStrategy allows organizations to start small and easily transition to more advanced and sophisticated BI applications as their needs grow beyond their initial deployment and require more robust analytics.”

–Mark Smith, CEO & EVP of Research, Ventana Research

“Now MicroStrategy is taking the concept of free BI one step further. MicroStrategy announced that it is making its Release 9 software available for up to 100 users/consumers of info at no cost! Now that’s a whole different story. Now we are talking about not just individual components, but a complete BI solution. We are also not talking about a small use case for just testing groups or QA or prototyping. With 100 users you can roll a BI application out for free to a whole department in a large enterprise or to a small business.”

–Boris Evelson, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
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