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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

Overview of Web SDK


In this section, we introduce MicroStrategy web architecture, plugin architecture, deploying SDK, and configuring Web Customization Editor (WCE) both in Linux and in Windows, and discuss some best practices for customizations and upgrades.

MicroStrategy Web architecture

The layers that make up the MicroStrategy Web application are as follows:

  • XML API layer

  • Web Objects layer

  • Web Beans layer

  • Web Transforms layer

  • Application Objects layer

  • Presentation layer

Application programming interface (API) is an interface that enables the user to access information from other applications, and allows the user to integrate services to their own applications. A Web Bean is a Java class that contains business logic and accepts no parameters, which includes JavaBean and Enterprise JavaBean:

MicroStrategy plugin architecture

MicroStrategy separates its main codes from plugins. Extra functionalities and customizations are implemented by using plugins, without modifying its main codes. Plugins are...