MicroStrategy allows Dicks employees to create different types of reports. For example, canned reports are reports with settings frequently used by other employees. If an employee needs a report with commonly requested parameters, canned reports save workers the time and energy required to expressly set those parameters. On the other hand, self-service reports have customized inputs and puts for instances when a unique piece of formation is sought. Processes that once took hours now take mere minutes because of the system's interaction with the master database, which consists of multiple terabytes of data