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Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

You're reading from   Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Master Business Intelligence with Microstrategy 10

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785884405
Length 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Neil Mehta Neil Mehta
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Himani Rana Himani Rana
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Ning Ma Ning Ma
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Dmitry Anoshin Dmitry Anoshin
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Preface 1. Getting Started with MicroStrategy FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up an Analytics Semantic Layer and Public Objects 3. Building Advanced Reports and Documents 4. Advanced Visualization Techniques 5. Customization of MicroStrategy 6. Predictive Analysis with MicroStrategy 7. Accelerating Your Business with Mobile Analytics 8. Data Discovery with MicroStrategy Desktop 9. MicroStrategy System Administration 10. Design and Implementation of the Security Model 11. Big Data Analytics with MicroStrategy 12. MicroStrategy Troubleshooting

Drill maps


Drill maps provide users with the capability of viewing data that is not available on the report. It allows analyzing the data within the same or a different context of data on the report. Let's say report 1 is created to view the annual sales of a company, but then the user wants to view the quarterly sales of the company; this can be achieved by drilling.

The user can drill on any object by right-clicking or double-clicking via the developer, or by a single click via the Web, and selecting the direction of the drill. If the user right-clicks on an element, it will drill for that particular element only, whereas if the user selects the header, it will drill for all the elements on that column. If user hierarchies are not defined, then system hierarchies create a default drill map. The drill path includes the destination of the drill, which could be an attribute, a hierarchy, or a template.

Creating drill maps and paths

You can open the drill map editor in various ways, as follows...

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