Business intelligence with MicroStrategy cookbook

MicroStrategy products allow you to take control of your business intelligence, and this book gives you the know-how to undertake successful data analysis. With over 90 practical recipes, it’s a fully comprehensive cookbook. Learn about every step of the BI project, starting from the installation of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Moraschi, Davide (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Birmingham : Packt Publishing 2013.
Edición:1st edition
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook
  • Table of Contents
  • Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy Cookbook
  • Credits
  • Foreword
  • About the Author
  • About the Reviewers
  • www.PacktPub.com
  • Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
  • Why Subscribe?
  • Free Access for Packt account holders
  • Instant Updates on New Packt Books
  • Preface
  • What this book covers
  • What you need for this book
  • Who this book is for
  • Conventions
  • Reader feedback
  • Customer support
  • Downloading the example code
  • Errata
  • Piracy
  • Questions
  • 1. Getting Started with MicroStrategy
  • Introduction
  • Installing SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Installing SQL Server Native Client 11.0
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Installing SQL Server 2012 Command Line Utilities
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • There's more...
  • Setting up the AdventureWorks DW sample database
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 1
  • Installing the .NET Framework 4.0 and the 4.0.2 update
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • Checking whether IIS is enabled and working
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Installing MicroStrategy Suite
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • There's more...
  • Registering the MicroStrategy License
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • There's more....
  • Metadata and data warehouse
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Creating ODBC DSN for metadata and data warehouse
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Modifying the logon account for the Intelligence Server
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works.
  • There's more...
  • Creating the metadata and configuring the Intelligence Server
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Opening the MicroStrategy Desktop application
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • See also
  • 2. The First Steps in a MicroStrategy Project
  • Introduction
  • Creating an empty project
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Setting up a data warehouse connection and selecting tables
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 2
  • Exercise 3
  • Modifying a table structure
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • Using logical tables to create custom views
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 4
  • Generating constants with SELECT statements
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • See also
  • 3. Schema Objects - Attributes
  • Introduction
  • Attribute forms - ID and DESC
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Using functions in an attribute form
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Parent-child relationship I
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 5
  • Parent-child relationship II
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 6
  • Other attribute forms
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 7
  • Selecting which forms are displayed
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Building Data Explorer Hierarchies
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 8
  • Exercise 9
  • Exercise 10.
  • Creating an attribute-only report
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Parent-child relationship in a report
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Filters on attributes
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 11
  • See also
  • 4. Objects - Facts and Metrics
  • Introduction
  • Creating a simple counter fact and metric
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 12
  • Exercise 13
  • Using SQL View to inspect SELECT statements
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 14
  • Understanding the GROUP BY clause
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 15
  • Adding more facts
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 16
  • Exercise 17
  • Exercise 18
  • Filters on metrics
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Creating ranking metrics
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 19
  • Grouping at a different level (level metrics)
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 20
  • Embedding filters inside metrics
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 21
  • Using Metric Join Type in reports
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • More Info
  • Creating a previous month metric (transformation)
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 22
  • See also
  • 5. Data Display and Manipulation - Reports
  • Introduction
  • Going deeper into data with drill down
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more.
  • More Info
  • Manipulating grids - Pivot and page-by
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Dynamically adding and removing objects in reports
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • More Info
  • The bottom line - customizing subtotals
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • More Info
  • Avoiding missteps - NULL values in facts
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • How to sort data in grids
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Sorting NULLs
  • Emphasizing numbers with conditional formatting
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Printing and exporting reports
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Restricting results with view filters
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 23
  • See also
  • 6. Data Analysis and Visualization - Graphs
  • Introduction
  • Displaying both grid and graph in the same view
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • More Info
  • Drag-and-drop objects using drop zones
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Beautify your chart
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Display multiple metrics with dual axis charts
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Conditional formatting with thresholds
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 24
  • See also
  • 7. Analysis on the Web - Documents and Dashboards
  • Introduction
  • Setting up MicroStrategy Web
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • More Info.
  • Creating your first "Hello World" document
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Adding data to a document - the dataset
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Modifying the grouping in a document
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 25
  • Stepping up to dashboards
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Using the editable mode to fine-tune the design
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Adding interactivity with panels and selectors
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Embedding images, HTML, and links
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Switching to Adobe Flash mode
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • See also
  • 8. Dynamic Selection with Filters and Prompts
  • Introduction
  • Restricting rows - compare an attribute to another attribute
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Exercise 26
  • Restricting rows - evaluate on moving dates
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • More Info
  • Exercise 27
  • Changing the level of a metric filter
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Adding interactivity to filters using prompts
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • More Info
  • Using prompts as object selectors
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • See also
  • 9. Mobile BI for Developers
  • Introduction
  • Setting up the Mobile Server
  • Getting ready
  • How to do it...
  • How it works...
  • There's more...
  • Setting up a mobile connection.
  • Getting ready.