I recently took a new position at a company as a Full Time Employee (FTE as we're called now ), ditching the consultant life of going from one client to another, and trying to take what I've learned and experienced over the years with Business Intelligence and OBIEE and applying them to this company.

The platform they are using is Microstrategy, which as some of you (or most of you astute readers) will know to be one of the oldest ROLAP Business Intelligence tools in the market. It's on version 9 now so I'll have quite a bit of exposure to the Intelligence Server architecture, the platform itself, the Reporting engine and the Administration portion of it to compare with OBIEE's similar parallel offerings.

I've already noticed a few differences between the 2 platforms but am surprised at the amount of similarites. In the next several posts, I'll probably do some comparisons of the 2 platforms and invite comments about the pros and cons of each one of these comparisons.

All things being equal, OBIEE and Microstrategy aren't that far apart in terms of what they actually offer and provide businesses: the ability to visualize their data and gain value and insight into their organization in order to manage their business more effectively and efficiently. It's just in HOW they go about taking care of business that will be interesting to compare with.

Oh, and BTW, why aren't there more resources on Microstrategy (such as blogs and forums) than there are available for OBIEE?