MicroStrategy Cloud business intelligence cloud service

MicroStrategy Cloud is a cloud-based platform-as-a-service.

It is intended to enable development of business intelligence (BI) and mobile and social apps, with the ability to scale to support hundreds of thousands of users.

MicroStrategy claims that the service can be deployed within 48 hours, and can support a range of cloud use cases, including tactical BI solutions and large implementations that depend on performance.

The service is optimised for large data volumes and high concurrency.

Subscribers have access to a suite of technology for reporting and analysis, enabling them to tap into enterprise data from their desktop or mobile device, improving insight and business decision making.

The service can scale dynamically in response to demand, from tens of users to multiple thousands of users.

Users can connect directly to their on-premises or cloud-based data sources via multisource capabilities. In addition, customers can opt to build and host their own database on the MicroStrategy Cloud through integrated database and data integration options.

The service’s architecture uses secure virtualised BI environments, data encryption, hardened network infrastructure including secure customer VLANs, and multilayer authentication and access control to secure customer information.

Physical hardware environments are maintained in secure, SAS-70 compliant cloud-based facilities with physical security and multifactor access control.