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 - Brossura

Moraschi, Davide

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ISBN 10: 1782179755 ISBN 13: 9781782179757

Casa editrice: Packt Pub Ltd, 2013

Riassunto

Business intelligence is becoming more important by the day, with cloud offerings and mobile devices gaining wider acceptance and achieving better market penetration. MicroStrategy Reporting Suite is a complete business intelligence platform that covers all the data analysis needs of an enterprise. Scorecards, dashboards, and reports can be explored and delivered on desktop, the Web, mobile devices, and the Cloud. With the latest Visual Insight tool, MicroStrategy brings the power of BI to the business users, allowing them to discover information without the help of IT personnel.

Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook covers the full cycle of a BI project with the MicroStrategy platform, from setting up the software to using dashboards in the cloud and on mobile devices. This book uses step-by-step instructions to teach you everything from the very basics to the more advanced topics. We will start by downloading and installing the software and a well-known sample SQL Server database. Then, one brick at a time, we will construct a fully-featured BI solution with a web interface, mobile reporting, and agile analytics.

The chapters are ordered by increasing difficulty, and each one builds on top of the preceding chapter so that the learning process is progressive. The examples given in this book are practical, and you will be able to see the immediate result of your efforts. We will first cover setting up the platform, including the creation of the metadata and the different objects that are part of a BI project: tables, attributes, and metrics. Then, we take a look at how to create and analyze reports, charts, documents, and dashboards, as well as how to manipulate data with the desktop application, the web Interface, and an iPad device.

The last part of the book is dedicated to advanced topics like the new agile analytics technology from MicroStrategy, where we cover both Visual Insight and MicroStrategy Cloud Express. Whether you are a database developer, data analyst, or a business user, Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook will get you up to speed with one of the most powerful BI platforms on the market with the smallest possible investment of time and money.

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L'autore

Davide Moraschi

Davide Moraschi is a Business Intelligence contractor and trainer. He is a MicroStrategy Certified Engineering Principal, specialized in healthcare data. Born in Italy and married to a Japanese woman, he now lives in what is probably the hottest city in Europe, Seville. He speaks English, Spanish, and fluent SQL.

Since the early nineties hes been working as a Database Developer and BI specialist for multinational companies (Microsoft, Novartis) or public institutions like the European Commission.

Hes the author of the blog http://blog.eurostrategy.net, and an active member of the MicroStrategy group on LinkedIn.

He can be reached at davidem@eurostrategy.net.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Packt Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1782179755
• ISBN 13: 9781782179757
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 334