MicroStrategy Incorporated Announced Upgrades to its DSS Web and DSS Server Products

MicroStrategy Incorporated announced upgrades to its DSS Web and DSS Server products, two of the main components used for the development and deployment of enterprise-wide decision support solutions. MicroStrategy designed DSS Web 5.5 and DSS Server 5.5 to provide organizations a comprehensive front and back-end platform to optimize their DSS solutions, offering world-class reporting flexibility on top of an advanced analytical processing engine.

"As we solidify our position as a leading platform for enterprise decision support applications, it is imperative to deliver products that benefit everyone in the organization, from the end-user community to the system administrators," said Michael J. Saylor, president and CEO of MicroStrategy Incorporated. "The new versions of DSS Web and DSS Server ensure that organizations have the products required to develop a world-class solution that can be deployed to thousands of users and deliver tremendous business benefits."

To develop successful decision support projects, organizations need an interface with report formatting to meet the needs of all levels of end-users, combined with high-performance, low-cost per user back-end functionality that delivers efficient management and maintenance capabilities to a DBA. New features in DSS Web 5.5 and DSS Server 5.5 benefit organizations by helping them reach theses requirements.

The new features can be grouped into the categories of:

Presentation Quality Report Formatting, Usability, Enhanced Performance and Efficient, Large-Scale Administration.

Presentation Quality Report Formatting

Combined grids and graphs on the same report -- Providing users with more reporting flexibility to easily spot data trends.

Individual Cell Formatting -- Providing users with complete formatting freedom, allowing them to focus on communicating the value of the information, not its presentation. Other features that lead to presentation quality report formatting include Multiple Report Workbooks, Grid Format Templates, and Print Preview.

Usability

Report Status and Cancel -- Enabling users to check on the status of reports, and cancel unwanted reports. This increases user control and decreases the IT support burden.

Asynchronous Reporting -- Ensuring that reports will continue to run after the web browser is closed, increasing work flexibility and overall productivity. Other features that lead to enhanced performance include a Report History List.

Enhanced Performance

Application Clustering and Consolidation -- Increasing query performance with less hardware.

Different Thread Management Algorithms -- Allowing DBAs to independently optimize for varying system demands, improve query response times, and increase report throughput.

Efficient, Large Scale Administration

Assign interface and warehouse language by user -- Enabling organizations to easily manage multilingual projects.

High frequency Report Scheduling -- Allowing DBAs to distribute reports for improved query response time and throughput, as well as support applications which require frequent data loads. Other features that lead to efficient, large scale administration include Automated Administration, Cache Manager Utility and Log File Viewer.