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Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

By : Dmitry Anoshin, Rana, Ma, Neil Mehta
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Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

3.7 (7)
By: Dmitry Anoshin, Rana, Ma, Neil Mehta

Overview of this book

Business intelligence is becoming more important by the day, with cloud offerings and mobile devices gaining wider acceptance and achieving better market penetration. MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is an absolute leader in the BI market and offers rich capabilities from basic data visualizations to predictive analytics. It lets you various delivery methods such as the Web, desktops, and mobiles. Using real-world BI scenarios, this book helps you to implement Business Analytics solutions in big e-commerce companies. It kicks off with MicroStrategy 10 features and then covers schema design models and techniques. Building upon your existing knowledge, the book will teach you advanced techniques for building documents and dashboards. It further teaches various graphical techniques for presenting data for analysis using maps, graphs, and advanced charts. Although MicroStrategy has rich functionality, the book will show how to customize it in order to meet your business requirements. You will also become familiar with the native analytical functions that will help you to maximize the impact of BI solutions with powerful predictive analytics. Furthermore, the book will focus on MicroStrategy Mobile Analytics along with data discovery and desktop capabilities such as connecting various data sources and building interactive dashboards. The book will also uncover best practices, troubleshooting techniques for MicroStrategy system administration, and also security and authentication techniques. Lastly, you will learn to use Hadoop for MicroStrategy reporting. By the end of the book, you will become proficient in evaluating any BI software in order to choose the best one that meets all business requirements.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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MicroStrategy Desktop interface


Let's run the Desktop application for the first time by clicking on it:

From this moment we can start to build a new dashboard using one of the following options:

  • Add new data by acquiring external data from flat files, relational databases, or any other data source

  • Add datasets from a server, for example, connect to an existing MicroStrategy Intelligence Server and choose grid objects

  • Browse objects on the server: choose attributes, metrics, and so on, in order to build dashboards

Let's try to build our first visualization using a Microsoft spreadsheet with data:

  1. Click on Add New Data.

  2. Choose File from Disk.

    Tip

    You can find all related files in an attachment to this book that you can download from the www.packtpub.com website.

  3. Find Dataset1.xls and click Finish. The data will be imported. Attributes and metrics will appear in the DASHBOARD DATASETS toolbar.

  4. In order to create a visualization, we should simply drag and drop the Product Subcategory attribute to the...

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