We are halfway through our journey in MicroStrategy Suite. During the preceding chapters we learned the basics of creating projects, reports, and graphs. It's time to step up and see the results of our work on the Web; after all, the vast majority of our users are consuming data via some sort of Internet browser.

MicroStrategy has a web interface, which is quite powerful and allows the user to explore the data in many different ways; unlike the Desktop application that has a fairly traditional look (very "VisualBasish"), the web interface is changing with every major release of the product. More features are added and the trend is to mimic the modern data discovery tools nowadays on the market.

While this is perfectly understandable, I would prefer to consider MicroStrategy as a complete enterprise-oriented BI suite, not just another Flash-based colorful Pivot table. But that's my personal point of view.

As I am writing, the Version 9.3.1 is generally available, with some important changes that please the non-IT user by steering the focus onto the Visual Insight part of the system, which we'll cover in Chapter 12, In-Memory Cubes and Visual Insight.

During the course of this book—anyway—I'll continue using the Version 9.3.0 to be consistent with what we have learned until now.

When I started writing the skeleton of the book, Version 9.3.0 was brand new; so apparently I am writing at a slower speed than they code, I blame the word processor for this.