MicroStrategy 8 can deliver all forms of enterprise reports from detailed multi-page production reports to highly graphical business reports, even statement-type reports and invoices. More importantly, MicroStrategy reports are fully interactive, allowing users to rearrange and reformat the data freely using simple drag-and-drop techniques and formatting toolbars. This puts an unprecedented amount of control in the hands of every business person to tune reports to exactly meet their needs and then to share their new report designs with their colleagues. This business user self-service drastically reduces the time to create the myriad of new reports that every dynamic organization always needs.

Full Range of Enterprise Reports from One Architecture The single MicroStrategy 8 architecture can deliver all three forms of enterprise reports that modern businesses need, and which historically had required multiple technologies. These three forms of reports are:   Print-Perfect Operational Reports Pixel-Perfect Business Reports Page-Perfect Invoices & Statements Create highly structured, densely populated, multi-page reports that are designed to disseminate a large amount of operational performance data. These types of reports become the reference sources of operational performance. MicroStrategy 8 enables business people to easily navigate instantly to specific sections contained within even the largest reports; and it can disseminate 100,000s of reports per hour.     » Via web and print » Easily navigate hundreds of    report pages » Parameter prompting lets    users specify report content Design highly graphical reports suitable for boardroom presentation, customer presentation, and formal publications. The defining characteristic of these kinds of reports is their desktop publishing quality.  MicroStrategy 8 employs a desktop publishing paradigm for report layout that makes these richly formatted reports easy to design and powerful in their presentation.       » Created by business users    rather than IT » Integrated tables & graphs   Easily reproduce repeating documents designed according to precisely-formatted pages and particularly suitable for printing on fixed stationery or for massive online access by individual external parties. MicroStrategy 8 report designers use our powerful page-layout tools to create high-precision layouts without the need for any programming required by other technologies.       » On-line billing applications » Customer notifications » Other print-perfect forms Deploy Many Reports Efficiently and Quickly With MicroStrategy 8, a single report design can produce 100s of variations controlled by the business user made possible by the industry’s most extensive parameterized reporting technology. With MicroStrategy 8, not only can users choose the range of fixed items to be displayed on a report (e.g., show only stores in the northeast, or show only products with sales greater than forecast), but it can even specify which fundamental elements will appear on the report (showing profit, or revenue, or cost, or forecast, or all 4 items). This extraordinary user ability is possible only with a dynamic query engine like MicroStrategy’s ROLAP engine that can design a new database query every time a report is run. Introducing “Interactive Reporting” Provide your business users with an unprecedented amount of self-service with Seamless Integration of Reporting and Analysis:    WYSIWYG Self-Service Save Time on New Report Creation Integrate Reporting And Analysis For the first time in the BI industry, MicroStrategy 8 allows business users to fully interact with their reports in a (WYSIWYG fashion) over a Web browser interface. Re-arrange data and formats freely using simple drag-n-drop actions & formatting toolbars as in Excel or PowerPoint. Instantly see the effects of any changes, and undo or redo design ideas as much as needed. This unprecedented level of self-service allows every business person to tune all of their reports to present the data exactly as they want, without requiring assistance from IT. The simple WYSIWYG report design ability radically reduces the time it takes to create new reports. In the past, IT personnel and power users needed to develop the entire report design through seemingly endless iterations with the business user. Now, with WYSIWYG design interaction, business users can now easily take over 70% of the design process by tuning the data location, spacing, graphs, background coloring, fonts, subtotals, headers, labels, and even excel-like calculations without any assistance from IT. As business users interact more and more with MicroStrategy 8 reports, they can seamlessly cross the line from Reporting to Analysis – from consuming the data, to interacting with the data. With MicroStrategy 8, business users have the ability to rearrange and display new data in their reports as their questions expand. They can do things as simple as sorting the rows, reorganizing the roll-up of data, adding new and different subtotals, and even drill back to the databases to display greater and greater levels of detail simply by right-clicking on any part of the report. With MicroStrategy 8, companies no longer have to design and deploy separate reporting and analysis technologies. With MicroStrategy 8, every report and scorecard is fully interactive with the databases, and become the one-click jumping off point for further analysis.