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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

Monitoring MicroStrategy


In order to monitor MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, we have two options:

  • MicroStrategy monitors

  • Operations Manager

Let's start with MicroStrategy monitors. We should open MicroStrategy Developer, where we can find Project monitors:

These monitors are very useful and can give a quick overview of what is going on with our MicroStrategy server. For example, one of the most useful is User Connections, which helps to understand who is logged on now. In addition, if we have enough rights, we can kill the session of a particular user. Another one is Jobs - this shows us reports that are executing or in a queue waiting to execute. On our small training server, there isn't lots of information, but if you have a production MicroStrategy, you can get lots of insights from these monitors.

One of the main new features of MicroStrategy 10 is MicroStrategy Operations Manager, which is a web-based tool for administrative tasks. It allows us to monitor all environments in one place...