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Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Himani Rana, Ning Ma, Neil Mehta
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Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

By: Dmitry Anoshin, Himani Rana, Ning Ma, Neil Mehta

Overview of this book

Business intelligence is becoming more important by the day, with cloud offerings and mobile devices gaining wider acceptance and achieving better market penetration. MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is an absolute leader in the BI market and offers rich capabilities from basic data visualizations to predictive analytics. It lets you various delivery methods such as the Web, desktops, and mobiles. Using real-world BI scenarios, this book helps you to implement Business Analytics solutions in big e-commerce companies. It kicks off with MicroStrategy 10 features and then covers schema design models and techniques. Building upon your existing knowledge, the book will teach you advanced techniques for building documents and dashboards. It further teaches various graphical techniques for presenting data for analysis using maps, graphs, and advanced charts. Although MicroStrategy has rich functionality, the book will show how to customize it in order to meet your business requirements. You will also become familiar with the native analytical functions that will help you to maximize the impact of BI solutions with powerful predictive analytics. Furthermore, the book will focus on MicroStrategy Mobile Analytics along with data discovery and desktop capabilities such as connecting various data sources and building interactive dashboards. The book will also uncover best practices, troubleshooting techniques for MicroStrategy system administration, and also security and authentication techniques. Lastly, you will learn to use Hadoop for MicroStrategy reporting. By the end of the book, you will become proficient in evaluating any BI software in order to choose the best one that meets all business requirements.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Security model deployment


We are ready to start building a security model. We have folders and reports. Moreover, we have a list of users. Let's create users:

  1. Click on Administration

  2. Click on User Manager

  3. Choose Everyone and create new users:

    • bi_developer, bi_architect

    • sales_australia, sales_europe, sales_canada, sales_us

    • product_analyst

    • finance_analyst

All new users belong to the Everyone group, in other words, they have the Normal Users security role. In other words, they haven't any access. If you want to try to connect using a new user, you will get this message:

The next step is to create groups in order to divide users by their departments. Usually, we should start from groups and then we can create a new user inside of a group. Sometimes a user can belong to several groups. Let's create groups for business departments. According to user access requirements, we will create a Sales group under the MicroStrategy Web Reporter group and Product and Finance groups will be created...