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Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

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

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

Hadoop and MicroStrategy


First off, lets look at Hadoop.

Hadoop architecture

The Hadoop framework consists of two main layers:

  • Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)

  • Execution engine (MapReduce)

HDFS is a distributed file system that allows storage of a large volume of data across all the machines in a Hadoop cluster.

MapReduce is a programming model that is used to process the large volume of data that is stored in HDFS. It divides large tasks into smaller tasks and finally joins the smaller tasks together to provide a single result.

The following is the high-level architectural design of the Hadoop architecture:

MicroStrategy Analytics Platform over Hadoop

The following diagram shows how MicroStrategy and Hadoop are tied together:

Hadoop and MicroStrategy use cases

MicroStrategy is an analytics tool that uses data from Hadoop to perform analysis. There are several use cases that are difficult to implement by using a data warehouse.

Sample use cases are as follows:

  • Analysis of social media posts...