XML 24 R10.htm IDEA: XBRL DOCUMENT
v3.3.1.900

Organization | 12 Months Ended
--- | ---
Dec. 31, 2015
Organization | (1) Organization MicroStrategy is a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms. The Company’s mission is to provide enterprise analytics, mobility, and security platforms that are flexible, powerful, scalable, and user-friendly. MicroStrategy 10 consolidates analytics, mobility, and security in a single integrated platform, available both as on-premises software and as a hosted service offering in MicroStrategy Secure Cloud. MicroStrategy’s enterprise platform combines traditional business intelligence functionality with data discovery, mobile analytics, and powerful enterprise security. MicroStrategy 10 builds on proven enterprise capabilities to make sophisticated, high-performance analytics more accessible, easier to use, and faster. MicroStrategy 10 consists of MicroStrategy Analytics, MicroStrategy Mobile, and Usher. MicroStrategy Analytics empowers large organizations to analyze vast amounts of data and securely distribute actionable business insight throughout an enterprise, while also being able to cater to smaller workgroups and departmental use via MicroStrategy Desktop. MicroStrategy Analytics delivers reports and dashboards, and enables users to conduct ad hoc analysis and share insights anywhere, anytime, via mobile devices or the Web (via MicroStrategy Web). It also combines the agility and productivity of self-service visual data discovery with the security, scalability, and governance features of enterprise-grade business intelligence. MicroStrategy Analytics is available both as on-premises software and as a hosted service offering in MicroStrategy Secure Cloud. MicroStrategy Desktop is a standalone, on-premise visual data discovery tool designed to enable business users to analyze and understand their data. With MicroStrategy Desktop, smaller departments or individual business users can create stunning data visualizations and dashboards that provide new insight and new understanding in just minutes. MicroStrategy Mobile enables organizations to rapidly build custom business applications that deliver analytics combined with transactions, multimedia, mapping, and custom workflows to mobile devices. The powerful code-free platform approach is designed to reduce the costs of development and enable organizations to quickly deploy powerful mobile business apps. MicroStrategy Mobile is an easy, fast, and cost-effective vehicle for mobilizing an organization’s information systems, including its data warehouses, business intelligence, ERP, CRM, and Web applications that are currently accessible only on the desktop. With MicroStrategy Mobile, businesses can transform their entire workforce into a connected and more productive mobile workforce using information-driven mobile apps that are significantly more robust and secure than their Web-only counterparts. With mobile access to critical corporate data and systems that drive the business, employees can have a virtual office in their hands at all times. MicroStrategy Mobile is available both as on-premises software and as a hosted service offering in MicroStrategy Secure Cloud. Usher, MicroStrategy’s security solution, is a powerful mobile security platform designed to dematerialize traditional forms of identity verification (such as passwords, tokens, and physical badges) and replace them with a single mobile identity badge that is cryptographically linked to its owner’s smartphone and dynamically linked to an enterprise’s existing identity repositories. Usher works on standard smartphones running on iOS or the Android platform, and also boasts an Apple Watch integration. By delivering strong, multi-factor authentication that can be extended to nearly every corporate system, Usher’s enterprise mobile security solution addresses some of the biggest challenges facing corporations today - including authentication, identity and access management, and resource authorization - while applying industry leading business intelligence and analytics to an enterprise’s security infrastructure. Through the use of Bluetooth, QR codes, biometrics, push notifications, time-limited PIN codes, and other authentication methods, Usher users can log into applications, VPNs, and workstations, unlock doors and other physical gateways, and validate each other’s identities. Usher can also be used as a powerful workforce management resource because it is designed to enable managers to gain a new real-time window into the activity of their distributed workforces, while providing powerful interactive features to manage or direct them. With the addition of Usher Professional, administrators can track user activity on a real-time map and communicate with users from the Usher application. Usher is available both as on-premises software and as a hosted service offering in MicroStrategy Secure Cloud. MicroStrategy Secure Cloud is a platform for organizations that want to harness the power of data through MicroStrategy’s enterprise solutions via the cloud. Compared to traditional on-premises approaches, MicroStrategy Secure Cloud is architected to deliver best-of-breed MicroStrategy software via the cloud, with pre-configured, ready to go servers, coupled with the required supporting infrastructure with metadata databases, relational databases, and big data storage. With MicroStrategy Secure Cloud, customers can launch enterprise analytics environments within minutes and use the full MicroStrategy 10 offering on a subscription basis. MicroStrategy Analytics, MicroStrategy Mobile, and MicroStrategy Secure Cloud, together with related product and support services, continue to generate the vast majority of our revenue. During 2015, 2014, and 2013, we did not generate significant revenues from Usher.

X
- Definition The entire disclosure for the nature of an entity's business, major products or services, principal markets including location, and the relative importance of its operations in each business and the basis for the determination, including but not limited to, assets, revenues, or earnings. For an entity that has not commenced principal operations, disclosures about the risks and uncertainties related to the activities in which the entity is currently engaged and an understanding of what those activities are being directed toward. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 275 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51801978&loc=d3e6003-108592 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 275 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2A -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51801978&loc=SL51803626-108592 + Details
Name: | us-gaap_NatureOfOperations
Namespace Prefix: | us-gaap_
Data Type: | nonnum:textBlockItemType
Balance Type: | na
Period Type: | duration