Once upon a time, business intelligence (BI) vendors sold entire Enterprise stacks, including back-end servers, data integration, query, visualization, dashboarding and maybe a planning/corporate performance management module. These big stacks made for big Enterprise agreements...and big price tags. But for IT shops at big companies, it made sense.
At the departmental level, meanwhile, some users found the Enterprise data visualization tools to be cumbersome, and they wanted the ability to bring in their own data. So-called self-service BI tools addressed this by providing friendlier user interfaces, without all the baggage and expense of the rest of an Enterprise BI stack. They also provided connectivity to a range of databases, big data platforms, file formats and Web service APIs, so business users could do their own thing.
MicroStrategy(mstr) is a client side tool which is also known as "mstr".MicroStrategy is a Business Intelligence software, which offers a wide range of data analytics capabilities.It can connect to data warehouses, relational systems, flat files, web services and a host of other types of sources to pull data for analysis. Features such as highly formatted reports, ad hoc query, thresholds and alerts, and automated report distribution makes MicroStrategy an industry leader in BI software space.