• 1. Tools called MicroStrategy System Manager and System Manager, which can “flow chart” job of Command Manager, Object Manager, Architect and Windows components. Personally very excited to get my hands on this.
  2. Search has feature suggestion like Google search. nah.. not that excited. I know what I do but good for people with bad memory.
  3. Reports can be subscribed to emails/DLs not stored in the metadata (currently it requires). Need to check, but expect a late reply on this.
  4. Different users would get different copy of same file in same location using a better slicing logic.
  5. File import from Salesforce.com w/o ODBC driver, LAN locations. Direct import of cross tab excels files. Fire up your visualization.
  6. Data mach-up/selection during file import. Pretty good.
  7. Testing of multipass SQL. For developers, this feature would help a lot in troubleshooting the reports. Wow.
  8. More integrated to R, best statistical model programming language.
  9. Crap feature called “Derive metric” available in Visual Insight too. This feature makes BA waste their time in “Self serviced BI”.
  10. Synchronized drilling in dashboard. Pretty good. My current client was expecting this to accomplish this in current MicroStrategy.
  11. Ability to export potion of dashboard instead of whole.
  12. Ability to save personalized view of Dashboard. Business user will ove this, as different users create copies of same report for their connivance of view.
  13. Native connector for Apache Hadoop.
  14. SAP HANA supported minus Partition Tables.
  15. For first time, Multi pass SQL will execute in parallel. But looks like this is good only for multi source reports.
  16. Bloody cool feature of MicroStrategy Health but they will not advise/advertise this. IF you are a MicroStrategy customer, you must use it. Free and excellent feature to track your MicroStrategy implementation.
  17. Better data valiation in Transaction Services. Very select few client for this feature. No word from MicroStrategy on this if same would work from iDevices.
  18. Passing prompt answers between dashboard. I believe this feature was already available. Old wine in new bottle.

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Feature missing

1. Transformation Prompt is under pipeline for last SIX years.
2. Metric creation/manipulation in MicroStrategy Web was highly expected in this build itself. May be another year.