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Discovering Business Intelligence using MicroStrategy 9

You're reading from   Discovering Business Intelligence using MicroStrategy 9 The MicroStrategy platform can make your Business Intelligence (BI) activities so much more communicative and collaborative. With this book you'll learn the capabilities of the platform and how to use them to revolutionize your BI.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782170044
Length 142 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Discovering Business Intelligence Using MicroStrategy 9
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. The Value Proposition of MicroStrategy 2. Mapping Typical Business Needs FREE CHAPTER 3. Reporting – from Excel to Intelligent Data 4. Scorecards and Dashboards – Information Visualization 5. Sharing Your BI Reports and Dashboards 6. MicroStrategy and the Cloud 7. BI Reports at Your Hands MicroStrategy Express Visualization Index

Index

A

  • account, MicroStrategy Express
    • activating / Activating your account
  • advanced analytics / Advanced and predictive analytics
  • Area / Visualization types
  • attributes / Understanding the business needs
    • about / Advanced metrics and attributes

B

  • Bars / Visualization types
  • big data / Big Data
  • BI model
    • strategy, defining / Understanding the business needs
  • Bubbles / Visualization types
  • business needs
    • mapping / Understanding the business needs

C

  • closed-loop BI / Closed-loop BI
  • configurations, scorecards and dashboards / Advanced configurations

D

  • dashboards / Scorecards and dashboards
    • vs, scorecards / Scorecards versus dashboards
  • data
    • uploading, in MicroStrategy / Understanding the business needs
    • value, searching in / Finding the values
    • including / Including and excluding data
    • excluding / Including and excluding data
    • displaying / Showing the total value of the results
    • sorting / Sorting data
    • ranking / Ranking
  • data analysis
    • about / Analyze data
    • metrics / Advanced metrics and attributes
    • attributes / Advanced metrics and attributes
    • drill down / Drill down, Benefits of drill down
    • slices / Filters and slices
    • filters / Filters and slices
  • drill down
    • about / Drill down, Benefits of drill down
    • benefits / Benefits of drill down
  • drill function / Foundation

E

  • e-mail sharing option
    • about / E-mail sharing
  • enterprise reporting / Enterprise reporting
  • Excel
    • characteristics / Visualization objects – graphs and grids
  • Export option
    • about / Visualization object's options

F

  • Facebook option
    • about / The Facebook option
  • filters
    • about / Filters and slices
    • advanced options / Advanced options for filters
    • using / Using filters
  • foundation
    • defining / Foundation

G

  • graph objects
    • about / Visualization objects – graphs and grids
  • grid objects
    • about / Visualization objects – graphs and grids

H

  • Heat/Tree Map / Visualization types
  • high-performance BI / High-performance BI

K

  • Key Performance Indicators (KPI) / Visualization objects – graphs and grids

L

  • layout
    • about / MicroStrategy interface – panels, layouts, and visualizations

M

  • main menu, MicroStrategy / Main menu
    • Share button / The Share button
    • e-mail sharing option / E-mail sharing
    • portable dashboard option / Portable dashboard
    • Facebook option / Sharing on the social media – Facebook and Twitter, The Facebook option
    • Twitter option / Sharing on the social media – Facebook and Twitter, The Twitter option
    • share visualization option, via web / More Share Visualization options via the Web or user blogs
    • share visualization option, via user blogs / More Share Visualization options via the Web or user blogs
  • Maps / Visualization types
  • Matrix / Visualization types
  • metrics / Understanding the business needs
    • about / Advanced metrics and attributes
    • threshold / Thresholds
    • generating / Metrics
  • MicroStrategy
    • data, uploading / Understanding the business needs
    • visualization objects / Visualization objects – graphs and grids
    • characteristics / Visualization objects – graphs and grids
    • features / Designing and formatting the reports
    • main menu / Main menu
    • reports, unsharing / Unshare the report
    • reports sharing, mobile devices used / Mobile devices
  • MicroStrategy BI
    • about / MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite
    • enterprise reporting / MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite, Enterprise reporting
    • scorecards / MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite, Scorecards and dashboards
    • dashboards / MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite, Scorecards and dashboards
    • advanced analytics / MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite, Advanced and predictive analytics
    • predictive analytics / MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite, Advanced and predictive analytics
    • closed-loop BI / MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite, Closed-loop BI
    • high-performance BI / MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite, High-performance BI
    • big data / MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite, Big Data
  • MicroStrategy Express
    • registering / Registering the Cloud service
    • account, activating / Activating your account
  • MicroStrategy Mobile app
    • setup / The MicroStrategy Mobile BI client solution setup
    • usability / MicroStrategy Mobile usability
    • usability, in offline mode / The offline mode
  • mobile devices
    • used, for sharing reports / Mobile devices

N

  • Network / Visualization types

O

  • Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) / Advanced and predictive analytics

P

  • panel
    • about / MicroStrategy interface – panels, layouts, and visualizations
  • Pie / Visualization types
  • portable dashboard option
    • about / Portable dashboard
  • predictive analytics / Advanced and predictive analytics

R

  • reports
    • designing / Designing and formatting the reports
    • formatting / Designing and formatting the reports
    • unsharing / Unshare the report
    • sharing, mobile devices used / Mobile devices

S

  • scorecards / Scorecards and dashboards
    • vs, dashboards / Scorecards versus dashboards
  • scorecards and dashboards
    • designing / How to design a scorecard or dashboard, Scorecard design and construction
    • layout / MicroStrategy interface – panels, layouts, and visualizations
    • panel / MicroStrategy interface – panels, layouts, and visualizations
    • visualization / MicroStrategy interface – panels, layouts, and visualizations
    • features / Features
    • usability best practices / Usability best practices
    • visualization objects / Visualization objects, Visualization objects, Visualization objects
    • visualization, types / Visualization types
    • configurations / Advanced configurations
    • foundation, defining / Foundation
    • metrics, generating / Metrics
    • building / Building a scorecard, Foundation
    • foundation / Foundation
    • metrics / Metrics
    • building process / Dashboard building process
  • Share button
    • about / The Share button
  • share visualization option
    • about / More Share Visualization options via the Web or user blogs
  • slices
    • about / Filters and slices

T

  • threshold
    • about / Thresholds
  • Twitter option
    • about / The Twitter option

V

  • value
    • searching, in data / Finding the values
  • visualization
    • about / MicroStrategy interface – panels, layouts, and visualizations
    • types / Visualization types
  • visualization objects
    • graph / Visualization objects – graphs and grids
    • grid / Visualization objects – graphs and grids
    • about / Visualization objects, Visualization objects
    • using, as filter / Using visualization objects as a filter
    • properties / Visualization object's properties
    • options / Visualization object's options
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