MicroStrategy Reporting Suite gives companies an easy entry point for initiating small , departmental reporting applications , along with a seamless path to build and expand BI deployments without creating independent silos of BI . Some departmental reporting tools create individual islands of BI that cannot be integrated into the larger BI system , resulting in inconsistent data and undermining the system 's credibility . With MicroStrategy , organizations can efficiently merge departmental applications into a cohesive BI environment to ensure data consistency across the enterprise .