MicroStrategy Seminar Series

Best Practices for Administering and Tuning the MicroStrategy Platform
Course Duration: 1 day
Debut Dates:

• June 26 – McLean, VA
• July 2 – San Francisco, CA

Course Prerequisites:

• MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials
• MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Administration
• MicroStrategy Administrator

This course provides best practices guidelines for administering and tuning the MicroStrategy platform. Participants will learn the recommended methodology for migrating objects across different environments and migrating metadata and data warehouses to different database platforms. In addition, participants will learn best practices related to security, cache management, schedule management, clustering, system monitoring, and governing. Below is a sample of topics that will be covered in this course - download the PDF file to view the full agenda:

• Project Release Management and Lifecycle Implementation
• Metadata Version Control
• Security and Licensing Considerations for Different Environments
• Best Practices for Object Manager, Project Merge, ScanMD, and Metadata Doctor
• Best Practices for Metadata Creation, Backup and Cleanup
• Migrating Metadata and Data Warehouses Across Different Database Platforms
• MicroStrategy User Management Concepts and Security Inheritance Model
• Best Practices for Assigning User Privileges and Object-level Security
• Best Practices for Enterprise-wide Report Distribution
• Encryption Methods in MicroStrategy
• Strategies for Optimizing Cache and History List Management
• 64-bit Environment Considerations
• Best Practices for Improving System Performance
• Automating Administrative Tasks Using Command Manager

Best Practices for Deploying and Tuning MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server
Course Duration: 1 day
Debut Dates:

• July - McLean, VA
• July - San Francisco, CA

Course Prerequisites:

• MicroStrategy Narrowcasting Essentials
• MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Administration
• MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager Essentials

This course provides best practices guidelines in deploying and tuning Narrowcast Server as recommended by MicroStrategy Technical Support and Technical Advisory Services (TAS). By following the guidelines presented in this course, customers will be able to avoid the most common issues encountered when configuring and using Narrowcast Server. Below is a sample of topics that will be covered in this course:

• Recommended Hardware and Software Requirements
• Configuring NT Accounts
• Configuring DCOM Permissions
• Benefits of 4 GT Mode
• Leveraging Intelligence Server Clusters
• Analyzing Delivery Engine and Upgrade Logs
• Tuning Strategies for Personalized Report and Personalized Page Execution Services
• Using Segmentation Prompts
• Integrating Narrowcast Server and Enterprise Manager

Applying MicroStrategy in Retail: Category Management
Course Duration: 1 day
Debut Dates:

• July 15 – Chicago, IL
• July 29 – San Francisco, CA

Course Prerequisites:

• MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials
• MicroStrategy Desktop: Advanced Reporting 100
• MicroStrategy Report Services: Dynamic Dashboards 100

This course is designed to provide practical applications of MicroStrategy in addressing common category management requirements encountered in the retail industry. The course begins with an overview of core concepts in retail category management. You will also learn how to develop static MicroStrategy Desktop reports that satisfy common category management questions. You will then learn how to combine related reports in MicroStrategy Report Services documents and finally, how to enrich the user experience by incorporating Flash-based interactivity in the form of a dynamic dashboard. Below is a sample of topics that will be covered in this course:

• Common Category Management Business Questions
• Common Retail Metrics and Measurements
• Creating Basic Category Management Reports:
  • Sales Report
  • Profitability Report
  • Inventory Report
  • Statistical Report
• Creating Consolidated Category Management Documents:
  • Seasonal Hindsight Meeting
• Designing an Interactive Category Management Dashboard

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Applying MicroStrategy in Healthcare: Quality
Course Duration: 1 day
Debut Dates:

• July 29 - Nashville, TN
• July 31 - McLean, VA
• August 19 - San Francisco, CA

Course Prerequisites:

• MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials
• MicroStrategy Desktop: Advanced Reporting 100
• MicroStrategy Report Services: Dynamic Dashboards 100

This course is designed to provide practical applications of MicroStrategy in addressing one of today’s most pressing healthcare issues: Quality. The course begins with an introduction to the business drivers, opportunities, and issues that are developing in the healthcare industry. Through a combination of lecture and exercises, you will then learn how to develop healthcare quality metrics, reports, documents, and dynamic dashboards in MicroStrategy Desktop. Finally, you will see how the depth and breadth of your healthcare project are increased through the use of MicroStrategy Office and MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server. Below is a sample of topics that will be covered in this course:

• Measuring Quality In Healthcare
  • Medicare’s role in quality measures
  • Challenges and opportunities for providers
  • Emerging regulatory governance
• Advanced dashboarding visualizations for common quality measures including
  • Medication Errors
  • Patient Falls
• Using MicroStrategy Office and Narrowcast Server To Increase the Reporting Audience
• Using MicroStrategy Report Services Documents and Flash-based Dynamic Dashboards

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