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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

Chapter 7. Accelerating Your Business with Mobile Analytics

Nowadays, smart phones and tablets are popular. Mobile devices enable us to do tasks traditionally only achievable by using a computer, such as checking e-mails and browsing web pages anywhere, anytime. The advantage of mobile devices is that they are more accessible; you may have access to your iPhone 24/7, but you are probably not able to access your office computer all day long. When you are away from the office traveling to another city, or doing your work in the field, and you need to access MicroStrategy, you can do so through your iPhone. Mobile Analytics enables users to harness the power of MicroStrategy from their mobile devices on the go.

In this chapter, we will discuss how to install and configure Mobile Server, how to create mobile applications that enable users to view information and provide inputs, and how to administrate mobile services. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to MicroStrategy...