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Project Design - Creating Your Project Foundation

Technically speaking, MicroStrategy's core task is to translate business questions into the language that databases speak: SQL. In other words, MicroStrategy offers a logical bridge between business users and the data. This bridge is possible because of MicroStrategy's Objects, which in turn reside in its metadata database.

This chapter will establish the base for designing and building a MicroStrategy project. It will first define and explain the concept of MicroStrategy Objects and then describe the main object categories. Then the main Schema Objects, such as Attributes and Facts, will be covered. The following topics will be the focus of this chapter:

What is a MicroStrategy Object?
Which are the main object categories?
Understanding a MicroStrategy Project and how to create one
Understanding a MicroStrategy Schema...

Key benefits

Learn the fundamentals of MicroStrategy

Use MicroStrategy to get actionable insights from your business data

Create visualizations and build intuitive dashboards and reports

Description

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.

What you will learn

Set up the MicroStrategy Intelligence Server and client tools

Create a MicroStrategy metadata repository and your first Project

Explore the main MicroStrategy object types and their dependencies

Create, manipulate, and share Reports

Create and share Dashboards

Manage Users and Groups

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