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Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook

You're reading from   Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook Over 90 practical, hands-on recipes to help you build your MicroStrategy business intelligence project, including more than a 100 screencasts with this book and ebook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782179757
Length 356 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Davide Moraschi Davide Moraschi
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Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Getting Started with MicroStrategy 2. The First Steps in a MicroStrategy Project FREE CHAPTER 3. Schema Objects – Attributes 4. Objects – Facts and Metrics 5. Data Display and Manipulation – Reports 6. Data Analysis and Visualization – Graphs 7. Analysis on the Web – Documents and Dashboards 8. Dynamic Selection with Filters and Prompts 9. Mobile BI for Developers 10. Mobile BI for Users 11. Consolidations, Custom Groups, and Transformations 12. In-Memory Cubes and Visual Insight 13. MicroStrategy Express Solution to Exercises Where to Look for Information Cloudera Hadoop HP Vertica Index

Creating ranking metrics


Now we know Touring-1000 Yellow is to blame; but there are also other underperforming products (so to speak). The bikes Product Manager and the Sales Manager are very curious to know the 10 less profitable products in our shop, in order to review the catalog, and come up with a creative way to cover losses. You are tasked with the "10 most money-losing products of all time" report. How would you do it? Well, yes, sort them and print just the first 10 lines could be an easy fix; but there's a more elegant solution. Use the Rank function.

Getting ready

My opinion is that in BI there is not only one "single" solution to reporting requests. Everyone has his/her preferences, we can get to the same results from different path and, as long as the numbers are true, there is no wrong or right way of doing things. There may be different performance issues and different levels of complexity, but the message is: if you can provide the correct number one way or the other it's...

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