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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

Your analyzing blocks – Public Objects


The MicroStrategy Public Objects are also known as Application Objects. As the name suggests, these objects are used by the users and analysts (Public), and their main purpose is to create analytic and BI applications. There is usually more than one developer maintaining this type of object. Therefore, unlike the Schema Objects, it is not necessary to perform an update schema after any Public Object creation or change.

Some Public Objects are built upon the foundation that the Schema Objects have created. In other words, some have, as components, other Schema Objects such as Attributes or Facts. There are also other Public objects that are built entirely using other Public Objects or a mix of these and Schema Objects. The following diagram depicts both Schema and Public Objects and which objects are used to build them: