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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

Chapter 3. Basic Reporting - Building Your First Reports

After learning about the MicroStrategy Project foundation and the main types of objects, it is time to build your first Report. To accomplish this, it is necessary to learn a few new concepts and some additional objects. This chapter will introduce you to the Public Objects, also known as Application Objects. Then we will build some basic Public Objects, including a Report, Filters, and Metrics. We will end this chapter with some fundamental Report manipulations.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Understanding MicroStrategy Public Objects
  • Explaining MicroStrategy Reports and how to create one
  • Explaining MicroStrategy Templates and how to create one
  • Explaining MicroStrategy Filters and how to create one
  • Explaining MicroStrategy Metrics and how to create one
  • Performing Report manipulations