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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 management blocks – Configuration Objects


MicroStrategy Configuration Objects are objects that share one or more of the following characteristics:

  • They don't reside in a specific Project but instead can be shared among all Projects in the metadata
  • They are created, maintained, and managed by MicroStrategy Administrators or Platform teams as opposed to architects, developers, or final users
  • They allow administrators to establish security, connectivity, data refresh and/or information delivery

As with the Application Objects, it is not necessary to perform an Update Schema after any Configuration Object creation or change.

So far, we have explored only one Configuration Object: the Project. This chapter will focus on security-related Configuration Objects.

MicroStrategy Developer Administration

Within MicroStrategy Developer, there is a section that allows users to manage Configuration Objects. This section is Administration, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Administration tree is common...