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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 6. Security - Managing Your Users and Their Access

So far in MicroStrategy, we have covered a good amount of Schema and Public or Application Objects. It is time now to switch gears and explore objects that will allow administrators to deploy a security layer in MicroStrategy by controlling user privileges and user access to Projects and to specific objects. These objects are part of the MicroStrategy Configuration Objects.

The following topics will be covered:

  • MicroStrategy Configuration Objects
  • MicroStrategy Users and User Groups and how to create them
  • MicroStrategy privileges
  • What a MicroStrategy Security Role is and how to create one and assign it
  • What a MicroStrategy Security Filter is and how to create one and assign it
  • MicroStrategy permissions