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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 main analysis tool – Reports


All Public / Application Objects serve one purpose: to build Reports or Documents (Dashboards) that will allow users to perform analysis. Reports are the primordial analytical assets in any organization.

The following is a quick reference table for this MicroStrategy Object:

MicroStrategy Reports are Application Objects that serve the purpose of allowing final users to visualize, analyze, manipulate, and discover information and trends. Reports are made of two main components: one Template and one or more Filters.

Creating a MicroStrategy Report is a fairly simple task. It just requires combining a Template with a Filter. We will learn in the following sections that the majority of time spent designing a Report is actually time that the developer requires to build the underlying objects such as Filters, Metrics, and Templates.

Understanding the Report Editor

The Report Editor has three main sections. Other sections not visible can be accessed via the View menu...