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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

Understanding the business needs


Let's assume for a moment that you are the commercial director of a retail chain with a massive growth during the last two years, and we need to identify our top five / bottom five stores in terms of revenue, cash flow, and sales representative's rotation, and totalize the profit, operative and net income, and most importantly, determine what is the rationale for identifying the top and bottom performers.

You need this information as soon as possible as your Regional VP is asking for those reports, and you can't wait for your IT fellows or consultants to deliver the reports because your institutional BI platform is under construction or definition, and you do not have any platform in your company for BI or is already in production but requires several processes, documents, testing, and validation in order to meet your requirement.

The business need is already defined, the question to answer is set by your Regional VP, and you have already enabled the MicroStrategy...

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Discovering Business Intelligence using MicroStrategy 9
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Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781782170044
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