Latest Release Delivers New Data Connector
SDK, Support for Intelligent Narratives, and Improvements for Big
Data Analytics and Mobile App Development
MicroStrategy® Incorporated (Nasdaq: MSTR), a leading worldwide
provider of enterprise software platforms, today announced the
general availability of MicroStrategy 10.7, the newest feature
release to the company’s MicroStrategy 10™ platform. This release
delivers a new set of APIs that will allow MicroStrategy customers
to build custom connectors to almost any data source. MicroStrategy
10.7 also adds integrations with Natural Language Generation (NLG)
providers Automated Insights and Narrative Science, letting users
add Intelligent Narratives to their dashboards alongside their
reports, graphs, and visualizations. With NLG, MicroStrategy users
can read narratives that explain the patterns and trends in the
data, making the platform more accessible to an even wider audience
of business users. To see how MicroStrategy 10.7 supports
Intelligent Narratives, watch this video.
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“Enterprises need both horsepower and flexibility to deploy
business intelligence and data analytics solutions at scale,” said
Tim Lang, CTO of MicroStrategy Incorporated. “MicroStrategy 10.7
extends the types of technologies that can connect to the platform
by giving our customers direct pathways to the data resources they
need. With this greater level of accessibility, our customers can
draw more value from their existing investments to improve
productivity, customer engagement and operational
efficiencies.”
The company’s latest release and its new capabilities will be
featured at MicroStrategy World™ 2017 taking place from April 18 to
April 20 in Washington, D.C. MicroStrategy customers, including
eBay, Cisco Systems, Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Four Seasons Hotels
and Resorts, Toys“R”Us, Whole Foods Market and others, will discuss
their achievements with the MicroStrategy 10 platform and how they
are using its latest capabilities to build innovative solutions to
digitally transform their organizations. To learn more about the
agenda and register to attend MicroStrategy World 2017, click
here.
To see a detailed list of features available with version 10.7,
register for our upcoming live webcast "What's New in MicroStrategy
10.7."
New Data Connector SDK
MicroStrategy 10.7 offers a set of APIs to build almost any data
connector and an extensive SDK to support the Data Connector API.
With new and updated data sources being published by database
vendors almost weekly, organizations need fast access to connect to
and use the data stored in these various data locations. Adding to
MicroStrategy 10’s extensive library of native supported drivers,
the Data Connector SDK enables MicroStrategy customers and partners
to use a proprietary REST API or standard web technologies to
access additional and new sources of data.
The Data Connector SDK opens a more extensive list of options
for both IT and business users, allowing access to data sources
including Eloqua, Amazon S3, OneDrive and more – all on top of
secure authentication modes. The SDK includes documentation and
instructions to make it easy to build and deploy new
connections.
Real-time Intelligent Narratives Explain Analytics to
Users
Through technology partnerships with leading NLG platform
providers Automated Insights and Narrative Science, MicroStrategy
10.7 supports the use of artificial intelligence to produce
intelligent narratives that describe the analytics users are
viewing. This new feature interprets charts and graphs into clear
and meaningful narratives that explain the context of hidden
insights in data. By allowing users to understand and readily share
a narrative explaining a visualization, this feature also makes
MicroStrategy 10.7 easily accessible to a wider audience of
business users at extraordinary scale.
Version 10.7 also certifies integrations with Automated Insights
and Narrative Science, and makes extensions available to both
technologies, enabling end users to leverage NLG to translate
structured data to text in order to facilitate data discovery.
Pre-configured plugins for both Automated Insights and Narrative
Science are available in the Visualization Library on MicroStrategy
Community.
“Our seamless integration with MicroStrategy reflects our common
vision of empowering enterprises with data-driven intelligence.
Narratives for MicroStrategy broadens the accessibility of this
intelligence by automatically providing it in natural language,”
said Mauro Mujica-Parodi, General Manager, Integrated Narrative
Solutions & Applications at Narrative Science. “This technology
partnership enables MicroStrategy clients to instantly receive and
report Intelligent Narratives comprised of insights that matter
most to their organizations.”
“The technology partnership between MicroStrategy and the
Wordsmith® NLG platform is exciting because it gives MicroStrategy
users control over the automation of narrative insights derived
from their dashboards. Key metrics and data points that
MicroStrategy users need to know are highlighted and summarized in
a narrative form, updating in real-time as users explore their
visualizations,” said Adam Smith, Chief Revenue Officer and Head of
Partnerships at Automated Insights. “Now, MicroStrategy users can
easily complement their complex dashboards with the most important
takeaways condensed into a narrative that any user can understand,
utilizing company-specific language.”
Enhanced Native Hadoop® Gateway
MicroStrategy 10.7 delivers a completely re-architected native
connector, called the Hadoop Gateway, that leverages Apache Spark™
to increase scalability and performance while accessing data
directly from HDFS. The new release also makes the Hadoop Gateway
setup process easier and more seamless with the rest of the
analytics platform. Also with version 10.7, the Hadoop Gateway will
be able to access more file types, including Parquet, Avro, and
JSON formats. This functionality is in addition to previously
supported .csv and text file formats.
Additional new features for MicroStrategy Desktop™,
MicroStrategy Web™, and MicroStrategy Mobile™ in version 10.7
include:
- New Certifications for Data
SourcesMicroStrategy 10.7 supports even more data sources and
meets a number of new certification standards. New certifications
available in version 10.7 include:
- MSAS 2016 (certified as a data
warehouse)
- Amazon Aurora, MySQL Edition (certified
as a data warehouse and metadata)
- Custom Shapes on iOS
DevicesMicroStrategy 10.7 delivers a consistent user experience
in maps on iOS devices by allowing organizations to deploy custom
shapes and area maps, supporting both .KML and .SHP files.
- AppConfig Support in Android™In
addition to native integration support with AirWatch®,
MicroStrategy 10.7 supports the implementation of AppConfig
(formerly known as ACE) for standardized enterprise mobility
management processes. This configures and helps secure applications
on Android devices based on AppConfig guidelines. The integration
with AppConfig facilitates more consistent, open, and simple ways
to configure and help secure mobile applications.
MicroStrategy Releases 10.4 Hotfix 3
Alongside the MicroStrategy 10.7 feature release, MicroStrategy
10.4™ Hotfix 3 is generally available to customers today. This
hotfix improves overall product stability and includes 120
customer-reported enhancements and fixes across the platform.
Furthermore, the hotfix is certified on SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 12, in addition to being available for Windows®, AIX™, and
Solaris. For more information about MicroStrategy 10.4.3, please
visit the MicroStrategy Community.
About MicroStrategy Incorporated
Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy (Nasdaq: MSTR) is a leading
worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms. The Company's
mission is to provide enterprise customers with a world-class
software platform and expert services so they can deploy unique
intelligence applications. To learn more, visit MicroStrategy
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MicroStrategy, MicroStrategy 10.7, MicroStrategy 10,
MicroStrategy World, MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy Web,
MicroStrategy Mobile and MicroStrategy 10.4 are either trademarks
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respective owners.
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