During this chapter we learned why the Cloud option is a real alternative for our reporting needs today, as well as we understood the complete portfolio that MicroStrategy offers to leverage the Cloud concept, in particular the express option, which has a cost.

The express option offers extra functionality over the personal option, such as access databases as the source of data, security for report access and attributes within the reports, automate report deliveries, and automate the refreshing of data when this data changes.

The personal edition functionality for designing and configuring the reports is exactly the same as that we used in the express edition. In MicroStrategy 9.4.1, the release Cloud platforms are now called analytics platforms.