MCLEAN, Va., July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- MicroStrategy(R) Incorporated , a leading worldwide provider of business intelligence (BI) software, today announced that its latest release of MicroStrategy 8(TM) software offers rich enhancements to MicroStrategy Integrity Manager(TM). MicroStrategy Integrity Manager is used to automatically detect inconsistencies and inaccuracies in reports and dashboards that can be inadvertently introduced into a BI ecosystem.
Using MicroStrategy Integrity Manager, IT personnel can detect and correct anomalies in reports and dashboards before business users see them, giving the business users greater confidence in the accuracy of their reports. Integrity Manager can be used by IT to regression-test tens of thousands of reports and dashboards automatically during major upgrade events, including BI software version upgrades, database version upgrades, database vendor changes, BI application upgrades, and ETL script changes. With Integrity Manager, organizations can decrease the amount of time spent during regression-testing from weeks down to hours, dramatically reducing administrative costs of BI and enabling a more nimble BI environment.
"Managing change in a large, complex BI environment like ours is labor intensive with sometimes lengthy and tedious regression-testing," said Lori Klump, Vice President of IT, VHA Inc. "We are excited about the expected gains in productivity and improvements in quality from our BI team as a result of using Integrity Manager."
In the latest version of MicroStrategy 8 software, released on July 18, 2008, enhancements to Integrity Manager include highlighting specific inconsistencies found in SQL generation, grid reports, graphs, dashboards, and Excel reports. In addition, IT personnel can now compare performance statistics for every report or dashboard run, including average, minimum, and maximum report execution times, and compare the variances to baseline statistics.
"Since we introduced Integrity Manager last year, customers have embraced its contribution toward helping them maintain healthy enterprise BI applications," said Sanju Bansal, MicroStrategy COO. "In addition to saving time and resources for organizations, Integrity Manager gives users confidence in the integrity of their data, which is critical to the success of their BI applications."
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Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy is a global leader in business intelligence (BI) technology. MicroStrategy provides integrated reporting, analysis, and monitoring software that helps leading organizations worldwide make better business decisions every day. Companies choose MicroStrategy for its advanced technical capabilities, sophisticated analytics, and superior data and user scalability. More information about MicroStrategy is available at http://www.microstrategy.com/.
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