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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

Widgets


Widgets provide the user with a visual and interactive look for their data. In this section, with MicroStrategy 10 we will discuss DHTML widgets. We will also talk about replacing Flash widgets with other components, such as graph or selectors.

The following screenshot shows the types of DHTML widget available with MicroStrategy 10:

Perform following steps to create widgets:

  1. In MicroStrategy Web, open the document in Design Mode.

  2. Click Insert | Widgets | DHTML and select the appropriate widget.

  3. Click on the location in your document where you want to place the widget. The grid/graph containing the widget is displayed. A small icon at the bottom-right corner of the grid/graph identifies the type of widget you have added to the document.

  4. Add objects to the grid/graph from the Dataset Objects panel on the left, select objects, and drag them on top of the widget, based on the requirements of a selected widget type.

Date selection widget

This is a calendar selector that lets the user view data...