Preface

According to Forrester and Gartner, MicroStrategy is one of the leaders in the Enterprise Business Intelligence (BI) market. MicroStrategy constantly improves their BI product in order to meet the requirements of all sizes of businesses, from small businesses or startups and to worldwide international companies.

MicroStrategy 10 is an absolutely new product and has lots of new capabilities. It allows companies to quickly analyze their data and find business insights. It has rich functionality for all kinds of users, such as powerful desktop clients, in-memory technologies, and great visualizations capabilities. In addition, it supports modern trends of machine learning and data science because it can be integrated with analytical vendors such as SAS and IBM, and open source technologies, such as R and Python. Moreover, it allows us to use extended visualization libraries such as D3.js and others in order to create dashboards with the best user experience ever. In addition, MicroStrategy is a leader in mobile analytics, and offers the best solutions for mobile devices. Finally, MicroStrategy 10 was designed specifically for working with big data and big data technologies.

This book will be focusing on providing an extensive guide to plan how to design and develop complex BI architecture for real-world scenarios using MicroStrategy 10, best practices, and collected experience working with BI, predictive analytics, MicroStrategy, and big data.