Comments on: Why MicroStrategy proferssioanl are paid too much (comapred to BO, Cognos, etc)

By: i aM sAyInG

i aM sAyInG — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:23:00 +0000

"Fewer number of employees needed spells a doom as the available market of good MSTR resource also decreases"

Ie the Law of Supply and demand . Keep a lot of people away from diving deep into MSTR from a consulting perspective. As long as there are More jobs than people the Pay for MStr resources is higher.

By: i aM sAyInG

i aM sAyInG — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:19:00 +0000

MSTR licensing is maily of two varities : User based or cpu based. When you get MSTR you are actually buying the license which enable the usage of software. but with other tool you genrally pay for both a client user license and a server license.

By: Ashish Tiwari

Ashish Tiwari — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 07:53:00 +0000

Fewer number of employees needed spells a doom as the available market of good MSTR resource also decreases.

There are different licensing in MSTR too for different purposes. anything specific you are mentioning?

By: i aM sAyInG

i aM sAyInG — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:32:00 +0000

Dude,
Though the cost of TCO is high the business value on return on user time spent is low. also Mstr allows for more users to use the reporting with the lowest level of infrastructure requirements per gigabyte of warehouse. Also most companies need a fewer number of employees to manage and maintain reporting applications. Also the main selling point for mstr is that the customer dont have to buy multiple tools separately from the user licenses, like the other BI Vendors

By: Ashish Tiwari

Ashish Tiwari — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:56:00 +0000

I can very well tell who is this person having openID called "dharkk" and why in recent time he had made so many negative comments on the blogs.

I do not believe about free software and course materials to be distributed to colleges as MicroStrategy will not give anything free to their partners, not a single page. Even if you purchase the license, training material (whose language is easier then manuals) is not provided.

It takes a very long time compared to BO/Cognos to realized TCO ASA MSTR is concerned.

Yeah, MSTR have a customer forum that has less than 1 thread posted a day since May 2004 and more than 60% queries are unanswered. Just access the MicroStrategy Customer Forums or ask your MicroStrategy liaison to check and he will reiterate. The problems posted on the forum are pretty tough ones that's why 70% are unanswered, so it is not really useful as you don't get any knowledge by reading that.

By: dharkk

dharkk — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:40:00 +0000

Microstrategy offers free software and course material to Colleges in the US. So I think your entire blog entry is not only wrong, but also disingenuous and misleading.

Let me guess, still shorting shares of MSTR?

Also, to say that TCO is the only good thing about MSTR is a strange comment. One, you're complaining about their prices and then point out that their TCO is good. Second, you've dedicated a blog to MSTR and you think their only redeeming value is their low cost?

Lastly, to anyone stumbling upon this blog as I have. MSTR has a customer forum with a LOT more useful information then the "education" this forum provides.

By: srik

srik — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:04:00 +0000

I just hope MTSR doesnt contact you to shut down educating on your forum ..

By: Ashish Tiwari

Ashish Tiwari — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:52:00 +0000

What I'm trying to emphasis is that quality consultant are not so easy to come by as far as MicroStrategy is concerned. Peer BI tool's education is less than available at one 3rd cost. Though it may should OK, this has a very big impact on the implementation of MicroStrategy at client side. Just search about BO and Cognos training cost.

My experience of having Power users knowing (they know it half hearted as its not their prime job) MicroStrategy is, it brings more chaos that clarity about the reports. Power user can not have not knowledge level on a full time consultant.

I know clients are free to take up consultation/implementation from MicroStrategy Inc other 3rd party but why would MicroStrategy loose that moolah making opportunity. The Sales consultant would lose its bonus [:)].

I may not be able to strongly put the words, how costly education is hurting MicroStrategy implementation / consulting and in turn MicroStrategy Inc but MicroStrategy Inc is looking for a quick big buck over this.

The blog is full of the TCO things. That's the only thing good about MicroStrategy.

By: Vale

Vale — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:32:00 +0000

I must disagree and give an example of how this is a wrong idea…MicroStrategy Educational offer is very competitive and allow to train a power user by few more then 3.000 USD…this is peanuts comparing to train other software’s power users. This is available for customer and partners, so, if customers don’t want to use MicroStrategy Consulting services, easily can find partners with qualified people for the job or even train is own personnel by this low amount of money.
Expensive for me is the number of consultants, hardware and user’s training that other BI platforms require just to maintain a few under users! If anyone is really interested is cost then you should read more about TCO!