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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

Visualization objects – graphs and grids


The following figure shows a graphical representation of information:

By graphically representing the information in one single view, we can respond to business questions and detect trends and behavior of the information. In this case, we are looking at sales by region, where region 2 is the most profitable.

The following screenshot gives a detailed account of an object that is ideal for data analysis (store in this example) in order to detect specific behavior and review specific values in a grid representation:

We can use a combination of graphs and grids in one single view for a quick review of the data without the need to navigate to separate pages; this kind of single view is called a dashboard. So far, the concept is quite similar to Microsoft Excel; however, the main difference is the way in which to produce and design this visualization in MicroStrategy and how to exploit, analyze, and share information with key personnel responsible for making...

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