Discovering Business Intelligence using MicroStrategy 9电子书

Discovering Business Intelligence Using MicroStrategy 9

Table of Contents

Discovering Business Intelligence Using MicroStrategy 9

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. The Value Proposition of MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite

Enterprise reporting

Scorecards and dashboards

Advanced and predictive analytics

Closed-loop BI

High-performance BI

Big Data

Summary

2. Mapping Typical Business Needs

Understanding the business needs

Summary

3. Reporting – from Excel to Intelligent Data

Visualization objects – graphs and grids

Designing and formatting the reports

Analyze data

Advanced metrics and attributes

Thresholds

Drill down

Benefits of drill down

Filters and slices

Advanced options for filters

Finding the values

Including and excluding data

Showing the total value of the results

Sorting data

Ranking

Summary

4. Scorecards and Dashboards – Information Visualization

Scorecards versus dashboards

How to design a scorecard or dashboard

MicroStrategy interface – panels, layouts, and visualizations

Features

Usability best practices

Visualization objects

Visualization types

Advanced configurations

Using filters

Using visualization objects as a filter

Scorecard design and construction

Foundation

Metrics

Visualization objects

Building a scorecard

Foundation

Metrics

Visualization objects

Dashboard building process

Summary

5. Sharing Your BI Reports and Dashboards

Reaching your audience

Main menu

The Share button

E-mail sharing

Portable dashboard

Sharing on the social media – Facebook and Twitter

The Facebook option

The Twitter option

More Share Visualization options via the Web or user blogs

Unshare the report

Mobile devices

Summary

6. MicroStrategy and the Cloud

The MicroStrategy Cloud portfolio

Personal

Personal edition

Express

Express edition

Platform

Express edition in action

Data sources

Security

Applying security

Personalize

Deliveries

Refresh data

Summary

7. BI Reports at Your Hands

The MicroStrategy Mobile BI client solution setup

MicroStrategy Mobile usability

The offline mode

Summary

A. MicroStrategy Express

Registering the Cloud service

Activating your account

B. Visualization

Visualization object's properties

Visualization object's options

Index