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MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   MicroStrategy Quick Start Guide Data analytics and visualizations for Business Intelligence

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136241
Length 218 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fernando Carlos Rivero Esqueda Fernando Carlos Rivero Esqueda
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Architecture - Installing and Configuring MicroStrategy FREE CHAPTER 2. Project Design - Creating Your Project Foundation 3. Basic Reporting - Building Your First Reports 4. Advanced Reporting - Interacting with and Improving Your Reports 5. Dashboarding - Creating Visual Reporting 6. Security - Managing Your Users and Their Access 7. Administration - Maintaining and Monitoring Your Project 8. Quick Reference Tables by Object Type 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Your main analysis tool – Reports

All Public / Application Objects serve one purpose: to build Reports or Documents (Dashboards) that will allow users to perform analysis. Reports are the primordial analytical assets in any organization.

The following is a quick reference table for this MicroStrategy Object:

MicroStrategy Reports are Application Objects that serve the purpose of allowing final users to visualize, analyze, manipulate, and discover information and trends. Reports are made of two main components: one Template and one or more Filters.

Creating a MicroStrategy Report is a fairly simple task. It just requires combining a Template with a Filter. We will learn in the following sections that the majority of time spent designing a Report is actually time that the developer requires to build the underlying objects such as Filters, Metrics, and Templates.

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