
Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy
Master Business Intelligence with Microstrategy 10
Packt Publishing
Published on 29. July 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
396 pages
978-1-78588-440-5 (ISBN)
Description
Build world-class enterprise Business Intelligence solutions with MicroStrategy 10
Key Features
[*] Fix the gap between BI tools and implementation/integration processes with big data and predictive analytics using this comprehensive guide to MicroStrategy 10
[*] Highly practical, example-rich guide that lets you implement business intelligence with MicroStrategy 10 in your organization
[*] Create the best user experience with BI dashboards using MicroStrategy using this up-to-date, comprehensive guide
Book DescriptionBusiness 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.What you will learn
[*] Explore various visualization techniques for presenting analyzed data
[*] Customize MicroStrategy in order to meet your business requirements
[*] Develop and design mobile dashboards
[*] Use the advanced techniques such as designing reports, documents and interactive dashboards for building dashboards
[*] Understand the concepts of data discovery and Desktop capabilities
[*] Explore the best practices for Microstrategy system administration
[*] Find and fix issues based on connections, environment or documents
[*] Integrate third party ESRI map tools with MicroStrategy to create geo based reports
Who this book is forThis book is intended for BI, DWH, ETL developers, BI/DWH/Analytics managers, analysts, and business users who already have MicroStrategy in their organization and want to take it to the next level in order to increase performance and improve user experience. In addition, it helps the reader to migrate from MicroStrategy 9 to MicroStrategy 10 and to start using the new capabilities.
Key Features
[*] Fix the gap between BI tools and implementation/integration processes with big data and predictive analytics using this comprehensive guide to MicroStrategy 10
[*] Highly practical, example-rich guide that lets you implement business intelligence with MicroStrategy 10 in your organization
[*] Create the best user experience with BI dashboards using MicroStrategy using this up-to-date, comprehensive guide
Book DescriptionBusiness 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.What you will learn
[*] Explore various visualization techniques for presenting analyzed data
[*] Customize MicroStrategy in order to meet your business requirements
[*] Develop and design mobile dashboards
[*] Use the advanced techniques such as designing reports, documents and interactive dashboards for building dashboards
[*] Understand the concepts of data discovery and Desktop capabilities
[*] Explore the best practices for Microstrategy system administration
[*] Find and fix issues based on connections, environment or documents
[*] Integrate third party ESRI map tools with MicroStrategy to create geo based reports
Who this book is forThis book is intended for BI, DWH, ETL developers, BI/DWH/Analytics managers, analysts, and business users who already have MicroStrategy in their organization and want to take it to the next level in order to increase performance and improve user experience. In addition, it helps the reader to migrate from MicroStrategy 9 to MicroStrategy 10 and to start using the new capabilities.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78588-440-5 (9781785884405)
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Persons
Dmitry Anoshin is a data-centric technologist and a recognized expert in building and implementing big data and analytics solutions. He has a successful track record of implementing business and digital intelligence projects across retail, finance, marketing, and e-commerce. Dmitry possesses in-depth knowledge of digital/business intelligence, ETL, data warehousing, and big data technologies. He has extensive experience in data integration and is proficient in various data warehousing methodologies. Dmitry has consistently exceeded project expectations across the financial, machine tool, and retail industries. He has completed a number of multinational full BI/DI solution life cycle implementation projects. With expertise in data modeling, Dmitry also has a background and business experience in multiple relational databases, OLAP systems, and NoSQL databases. He is also an active speaker at data conferences and helps people to adopt cloud analytics. Himani Rana is a senior data scientist and has been working as database developer and MicroStrategy specialist for multinational companies since 2007. She is currently pursuing her PhD in data mining and big data. She completed her master's in data mining and vehicular ad hoc networks. She has to her credit the following publication: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6557928. Himani possesses in-depth knowledge of Business Intelligence and big data technologies. She specializes in insurance and financial data analysis because of her Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP) designation. In addition, she was a committee member and reviewer of Information Systems, Technology and Management (http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642291654) and 2011 Third International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC) (http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6156880). Ning Ma is an experienced data analyst working in an insurance company. He is experienced with statistical modeling, creating executive dashboards, fraud detection, text mining and teaching. He is also knowledgeable about implementing predictive analysis in MicroStrategy. He enjoys helping business users discovering knowledge from data, by visualizing data patterns and testing hypotheses. He is passionate about producing easy-to-use data products to support business decision making. Prior to his current position, he worked in China doing IT and investment jobs. He did his computer science and economics undergraduate studies in Beijing, economics and finance graduate studies in Canada, and did research on quantitative finance in Canada. In his free time, he loves reading, electronic arts, and all kinds of outdoor activities. Neil MehtaBSc (Hons) has 20 years of experience as a developer, analyst, and
program manager and has spent the last 7 years specifically implementing business
intelligence solutions to help companies leverage their corporate data. Trained in
all aspects of analytics from data modeling to system architecture and reporting,
Neil currently manages a large team of data architects, ETL developers, and report
designers for a large insurance company.He has extensive experience with business
analytics, administration, and dashboard design and has helped develop programs
to establish super user communities and develop training plans. He has worked in
multiple business segments, including financial, oil and gas, transportation, and
retail industries.
program manager and has spent the last 7 years specifically implementing business
intelligence solutions to help companies leverage their corporate data. Trained in
all aspects of analytics from data modeling to system architecture and reporting,
Neil currently manages a large team of data architects, ETL developers, and report
designers for a large insurance company.He has extensive experience with business
analytics, administration, and dashboard design and has helped develop programs
to establish super user communities and develop training plans. He has worked in
multiple business segments, including financial, oil and gas, transportation, and
retail industries.
Content
Table of Contents
Getting Started with MicroStrategy
Setting Up an Analytics Semantic Layer and Public Objects
Building Advanced Reports and Documents
Advanced Visualization Techniques
Customization of MicroStrategy
Predictive Analysis with MicroStrategy
Accelerating Your Business with Mobile Analytics
Data Discovery with MicroStrategy Desktop
MicroStrategy System Administration
Design and Implementation of the Security Model
Big Data Analytics with MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy Troubleshooting
Getting Started with MicroStrategy
Setting Up an Analytics Semantic Layer and Public Objects
Building Advanced Reports and Documents
Advanced Visualization Techniques
Customization of MicroStrategy
Predictive Analysis with MicroStrategy
Accelerating Your Business with Mobile Analytics
Data Discovery with MicroStrategy Desktop
MicroStrategy System Administration
Design and Implementation of the Security Model
Big Data Analytics with MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy Troubleshooting