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MicroStrategy

Introduction to Enterprise Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy 8
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Course Introduction
Detailed Agenda
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This one-day, hands-on introductory course discusses enterprise BI architecture, demonstrates business user interactivity, details BI application development, and covers BI application administration. Students will spend about one-half of the class exploring MicroStrategy 8 software with hands-on, instructor-driven exercises.

AGENDA SCHEDULE:

Registration: 8:30AM–9:00AM
Morning Session: 9:00AM–12:30PM
Afternoon Session: 1:30PM–5:00PM
The class starts with the business user experience in the morning and finishes with the BI developer, architect, and administrator experience in the afternoon. A complimentary lunch will be served.


A synopsis of the one-day curriculum is below:

MORNING SESSION:  Using BI for Better Decisions Every Day
Understanding the range of popular BI applications
Learning about enterprise-caliber BI architecture
Discovering scorecards, dashboards, operational reports, and alerts
Interacting with enterprise data by slicing-and-dicing, pivoting, exporting, printing, and more
Sharing critical information with your colleagues immediately
Investigating data by drilling anywhere in the database
Personalizing reports by selecting the information you want to see from convenient prompts
Analyzing data by adding business calculations, zeroing in on areas of concern, and performing time-series analysis
Creating your own analytical reports intuitively
Designing pixel-perfect reports, scorecards, and dashboards
AFTERNOON SESSION:  Developing and Administering Enterprise BI Applications
Modeling the business to the data warehouse
Defining key business terms and their relationships
Building business metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), data filters, prompts, thresholds, and reports
Performing advanced analysis with Data Mining and Predictive Analysis functions
Accessing many data sources: databases, SAP BW, Microsoft Analysis Services, Hyperion Essbase
Extending BI to other systems using an open software development kit (SDK)
Managing enterprise BI: scalability, performance, security, governing, and system monitoring