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MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide

By : Fernando Carlos Rivero Esqueda
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MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide

By: Fernando Carlos Rivero Esqueda

Overview of this book

MicroStrategy is an enterprise business intelligence application. It turns data into reports for making and executing key organization decisions. This book shows you how to implement Business Intelligence (BI) with MicroStrategy. It takes you from setting up and configuring MicroStrategy to security and administration. The book starts by detailing the different components of the MicroStrategy platform, and the key concepts of Metadata and Project Source. You will then install and configure MicroStrategy and lay down the foundations for building MicroStrategy BI solutions. By learning about objects and different object types, you will develop a strong understanding of the MicroStrategy Schema and Public Objects. With these MicroStrategy objects, you will enhance and scale your BI and Analytics solutions. Finally, you will learn about the administration, security, and monitoring of your BI solution.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
Index

MicroStrategy Analytics Modules


When MicroStrategy is installed, there is the option to install MicroStrategy Analytics Modules. Basically, this option will install two sample projects: MicroStrategy Tutorial and Human Resources Analysis Module. These two projects are installed and configured automatically. Both the data warehouse and the metadata databases reside on Microsoft Access. In addition, a 2-Tier Project Source is also created and accessible from MicroStrategy Developer. The login is Administrator with a blank password.

It is recommended to leave these sample projects to perform testing of MicroStrategy Features and self-training in a DEV or System Test environments, never in Production. Otherwise, these could be uninstalled. Throughout this book, we will use these two projects to describe examples and perform exercises.