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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
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Preface

Creating and adding data to the document


A document is an object that displays data from one or more reports, intelligent cubes, or any other external data source. Documents have different visualization modes in different environments.

The visualization modes in Web are as follows:

  • Presentation mode: With MicroStrategy 10, express mode is renamed as presentation mode. It allows you to view the result of the document. In this mode, we cannot make any changes to the document. Before MicroStrategy 10, express mode was used to display the results of the document.

  • Editable mode: Allows you to quickly see the changes made to the document, that is, we can see all the results as we work.

  • Design mode: Allows you create a document, display structure, or placeholder for the document, but not the actual results.

The visualization modes in Desktop are as follows:

  • Design mode: Displays the structure or placeholder for the document object, but not the actual results.

  • PDF mode: Allows you to view the final...