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* Report Essentials - Day 1

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Delivery Means

Desktop Web and Mobile (pager,

cellphone)

5 Microstrategy Components

Source Systems
ETL
Data Warehouse
Metadata
Microstrategy Applications

Online Transaction Processing

OLTP

Differences between OLAP and OLTP

"Organization: Workflow per application

vs. Business subject and dimension
Data Retention: short term vs. long term
Data Integration: Minimal or none vs.
high, as part of ETL process
Data Storage: Gigabytes vs. Terabytes
Use: OLTP (Real time, write and update,
evenly distributed usage, transactional
data) vs. OLAP (Batch load, reporting /
read only, spiked usage (based on time of
warehouse loads)"

OLAP Characteristics

Read Only
Uniform Format (Homogeneous)
Aligned by Business Subject
Long term data storage"

OLAP

On line Analytical Processing

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OLTP Characteristics

Read, Write data

Not Uniform data (heterogeneous
formatting)
Aligned by business process
Short term data storage
Short term data

Microstrategy Applications

Organize data logically

Look at data for different angles
Provide a variety of formats
Provide ability to create documents

Objects

Needed to create reports or documents

Components of Desktop

Desktop - report developer

Architect - Facts and object creation;
builds out metadata
Administrative Functions (improve
performance, environment, security,...)

2 Desktop offerings

Analyst (simplified)
Desktop Designer (full)

3-tier Environment includes

Microstrategy Intelligent Server

Test environment could omit

Microstrategy Intelligent Server

Microstrategy Products you can add on

OLAP Services
Multi-Source
Distribution Services

Project Source

Represents a connection to a metadata

database

Metadata data base to Server

1 to 1 basis

Metadata database contains

1 or more MicroStrategy Projects

2-tier Project Source

MicroStrategy Desktop with Metadata

database

3-tier Project Source

MicroStrategy Desktop
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
Metadata data base

MicroStrategy Objects include

"Schema Objects

Application Objects

Used to create other Application Objects

Configuration Objects (connectiveity
objects, users, ODBC, etc.)"

Schema Objects definition

Physical schema of data warehouse

(logical model)

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Schema Objects

Used to create Application Objects

Types of Schema Objects

"Attributes (used to quality a filter, can

be on a report, eg. year)
Facts (used to create caluclations, eg.
Sales)
Hierarchies
Transformations
Partitions

Application Objects

Metric (operator + fact)

Filters
Templates
Customer Groups
Consolidations
Prompts
Searches

Default Project Folders

History
My personal objects
Public objects
Schema objects
Data Explorer

MicroStrategy Desktop Menus

File, Edit, View, Go, Tools,

Administration, Schema, Window, Help

Report is made up of a

Filter and a Template

Report purpose

Focus of Business Intelligence

Request for a specific formatted data
from data warehouse

What do you want displayed (attributes,

metrics)?

Template Purpose

Types of Templates

Cross-tab layout - useful for

multidimensional analysis
Tabular layout - simple lists of
information"

Attribute - representation of a specific

level of data, calculation or aggregration

Templates contain any of the following

objects, in any combination

Consolidation

"virtual" attribute that is created based on

existing attribute elements; data levels do
not explicitly exist in the data warehouse

Filter in SQL

The "where" clause

Yes

Is an Empty Filter on a report a filter?

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5 Display Views are

Design View
Grid View
Graph View
Grid / Graph View
SQL View

What does drilling do?

Enables you to see data at levels other

than that of the original grid or graph

Types of Drilling Methods

Up (eg. month to year)

Down (eg year to month)
Across (eg to another hierarchy

What options are there for drilling wrt to

Parent?

Keep parent
Do not keep parent

What does Page-By enable you to do?

Enables you to select and display subsets

of reports

On which objects can you Page-By?

Attributes
Metrics
Hierarchies
Consolidations
Custom Groups
Object Prompt (attribute)
Object Prompt (hierarchy)
Object Prompt (consolidation)
Object prompt (custom group)

Best practice for displaying attributes in

the same attribute group

Display highest level on left, then lower

level attributes

Data Pivoting Characteristics

Moves objects from row header to

column header
Moves objects from column header to
row hearder
Change order of objects in row header
Change order of objects in column
header
Move objects from row or column header
to page-by
Move objects from page-by to row or
column
Quickly rearranges objects on the fly
Creates no new SQL

Subtotals created at 3 levels

"By Position (suppress all totals

producing Grand Total)
By Levels (selected attribute totals)
Group By (attributes)

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2 Sorting Types

Quick Sort (grid view (one column at a

time)
Advanced Sort - Grid, Graph,
Grid/Graph View

Advance sort consists of :

"Sort By: name of row or column or

page-by field
Criteria: If sorting on an attribute, you
can choose the attribute form by which to
sort the attribute data
Order: Order in which to sort: ascending
or descending
Total Position: Bottom of report, top of
report, or mixed

Parent Position: Available for Custom

Groups only.

Enable you to govern where the customer

group header label appears wrt its data
elements"

Yes

Are subtotals required for Outline mode

to work properly?

7 Print Options

Excel
Word
Access
Plain Text
HTML
PDF
SQL View

No

Are Notes the same as Change

Journaling?

Use of notes

Explanatory information for subsequent

readers for a specific report (no
notification that there are notes)

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