Recognizing the growing tension between IT departments and enterprise users eager for more self-serve analytics tools, MicroStrategy has added heightened security and governance capabilities to the latest version of its namesake BI platform.

MicroStrategy 10 Secure Enterprise, which arrives a full six years after version 9 of the platform, promises to combine enhanced business-intelligence functionality with data discovery, mobile analytics and enterprise-grade security.

“The idea is to empower business users with strong self-service access to analytics but in way that’s governed,” said Paul Zolfaghari, the company’s president.

As easy-to-use analytics tools have become more commonly available, some organizations are experiencing problems associated with the lack of enterprise-level oversight, including data-quality issues, inconsistencies and data silos.

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