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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

Summary


At the end of this chapter, you should be able to differentiate the three main object types or categories. You should be familiar with the MicroStrategy Developer interface and default Project structure. At this point you should understand and be able to create the following objects:

Configuration Objects:

  • Project

Schema Objects:

  • Table
  • Fact
  • Attribute
  • Hierarchy
  • Transformation

In the next chapter, we will create and manipulate our first Report but not before understanding some of its component objects: Templates, Filters, and Metrics.