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MicroStrategy Price ?? Trade Secret

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MicroStrategy pricing is highly secretive and any one having license is barred from making any comment/information about the pricing they negotiated for license for 3 year from the date of acquiring the product license.

I was searching for product that will generate price-list and stumbled upon this page. Oracle has given DETAILED price list of the license with Named User, CPU with Feature List.

When MicroStrategy, Inc would do this. I know they have differential pricing for various Geographical Regions, but the price is a closely guarded secret. If you have anything to share on license/pricing, please share.

How MicroStrategy, Inc. can change positively to MicroStrategy World

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The bloggers’ conference hosted by MicroStrategy, Inc was a part of marketing campaign. Staged was opened to ask question by bloggers but was too little time.

My demands from MicroStrategy, Inc (some of them have been said in the older posts) a reason behind that.

  1. Make the evaluation serial valid of 3 months by default. It is open secret that serials are extended twice w/o questions asked, how about making it by default, so that some clients can evaluate MicroStrategy peacefully.
  2. All other BI vendors have a their own Marketplace (tool/utilities market based on BI tool), but MicroStrategy has willfully not done anything for such a Marketplace to come into existence. You charge USD 200 and up for custom tools to be created for MicroStrategy license holders, but fail to understand that non-ready-availability of Server and Web SDK guys hurts your client very much.
  3. Make a SDK specific free license in line with Free MicroStrategy Reporting Suite, so that MicroStrategy Marketplace gets generated in the next 2 years at least. give the SDK license for free, charge a commission from Tool maker having free SDK license. I hope that make sense.
  4. One of things that MicroStrategy did after me criticizing the USD 650 for a certification exams was lowering the fees to USD 250, but that’s still too costly. It should be USD 100, at par with Cognos.
  5. MicroStrategy must tie-up with Prometric or some examination center so that  taking certification exams is easy. Few exams are partly paper based and they should be made online.
  6. By keeping a high cost of certification and eduction, MicroStrategy has entered into low acceptance spiral as
    Low number of MicroStrategy experts -> less availability to MicroStrategy customers -> Delayed/less implementation -> Low number of MicroStrategy expert.
    But probably, it really doesn’t matter to MicroStrategy as they are happy with consulting fees and are blind to the high revenue that they can generate by availability of good/expert professionals.
  7. companies those who have long term relationship with MicroStrategy have lower support cost but they are pissed off as having implemented MicroStrategy for long, they do not generate support call and still pay for good. How about a “charge for support” type of fees for licensing.
  8. Object Manager MUST be part of MicroStrategy Reporting Suite.
  9. You are trying to break into Indian market, but here you won’t be used for BI at all. Most of my friends who are into BI implementation at different clients are mere making Statutory Reports. BI is greek latin. You holding a BI meet explaining the difference between 8 and 9 was a stupid idea as there were just 1 ( or 2) companies having MicroStrategy.
  10. You NAMED USER license is still complex to understand. Didn’t I get get 100 user license 😳
  11. MicroStrategy is the prime BI implementation for ~80 out of Fortune 100 due to only one reason – scalability. After the recent change in BI market, other BI tool would catch up with you sooner than expected.  No one has patent in scalability, though I’m sure by the time they achieve what you are doing now, you would be much ahead.
  12. Make a Web customization ket. I know it is useless but sells like hot cake.
  13. MicroStrategy must agree that future (of implementation) lies with India. If you are not serious about educating Indian about MicroStrategy, Inc you are a big loser. You started free MicroStrategy CDs in US Universities with lot fanfare but never saw a traction on that.
  14. Make Education videos available as torrents hosted specifically to the MicroStrategy online account users.

Cease and Desist letter from MicroStrategy, Inc

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Few friends wanted to see a copy of the letter received from MicroStrategy, Inc. Here is the copy.

MicroStrategy Cease and Desist

MicroStrategy Cease and Desist

This is the biggest pain reliever I’ve in my life. Whenever I feel sad, I open copy of this letter to forget everything and laugh. Simply can’t believe MicroStrategy, Inc would do such a thing to me. Sometime legal/para legal ways are not the best way to do things. I pity on MicroStrategy, Inc having hired visually handicapped people, miserably unfit to do their jobs, reached position of VP and para legal. 😐

Last but not least, never received the promised letter by FadEx, something extremely critical to pursue the case against the current domain name holder.

Reply to MicroStrategy about domain Cease and Desist

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This one is from archive. Totally missed. Someone holding the position of VP at MicroStrategy, Inc. sent me the cease and desist letter about owing domains – microstrategy.co.in and microstrategy.in. I was totally shocked about having received such a warning and I was very much laxed about a reply thinking what can they do. Even if NIXI (manages the .IN Registry) awards the domain to, I would take a court stay. But that was a wrong thinking. I was just browsing the ICANN site about replying a domain name C&D notice and I came to know that mere not replying (in 20 calendar days – as per set rules) to C&D notice is sufficient for a domain owner to lose the domain forever, which could not be challenged to the domain registry or ICANN (rare of rare exception). One can read the site of ICANN about how to answer a domain name cease and desist letter. As per ICANN, all the allegation must be replied, else you may lose your case. A complainant may have several charges and all should be replied.

BTW, as per letter received from MicroStrategy, Inc. they had sent the cease and desist letter to my postal address, which I happen to have left just a month before. I have duly notified my registrar about the domain, but whois is still shows the old addresses Said offline letter was never received to the address and thus as per ICANN rules they loose the case. A complainant must send the cease and desist online (which they did) as well as offline, a very strict rule of ICANN. They will have to show the Registrar a proof of delivery of offline notice, who will arbitrate the domain ownership dispute.

Have a look at the reply of cease and desist letter received from MicroStrategy, Inc.

MicroStrategy Ceased and Desist REPIED

MicroStrategy Cease and Desist REPIED

Something I would never forget that there was 20 time increase in the spam on my MicroStrategy forum which coincided reply to the cease and desist letter. Since February and till June, I’ve spent considerable amount of time deleting spam from forum. It is very hard alone handling lot of things. MicroStrategy, Inc also started allowing any register user with support  account, accessing the official MicroStrategy forum too, only after the above sent reply. :mrgreen: . I had to go to extent of allowing post to contain spam and I’ve found that to be the best ant-spam too for a forum based on phpBB. Worst impact, the forum lost the popularity and MicroStrategy official forum gained very much; but now the trend has got reversed in last 2 months. Something to be happy.

P.S. – Don’t get annoyed by the reply. As per ICANN domain name dispute. cease and desist notice must be replied with specific words and sentences.

Finally Indian Govt dept uses MicroStrategy

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I was searching about the presence of MicroStrategy in India and I stumbled upon this page. Snaspshot of the page is as below:

Science Direct Library Service usage by NIC

Science Direct Library Service usage by NIC

After some browsing I also came to know how to browse to this page too. It is Home -> Statistic -> Y (for NIC).

Now look closely to the report, it is a MicroStrategy grid graph report. Grid auto-style is small. Grid look and feel is exactly like a MicroStrategy report. I really don’t know that’s a legal installation of MicroStrategy. The reports is of year 2006 and the site is never updated after that. Indian govt employees are like; they would sell the free stuff to Govt too (to corner tax payer’s money). Finally there is one more MicroStrategy client in India.

If you have any idea about this, do share.