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200+ Hours of Free Online Education Courses for BI Professionals

MicroStrategy provides free and convenient 24/7 access to 200+ hours of online courses for Business Intelligence professionals, from novice to expert. If the dates and locations for MicroStrategy’s instructor-led courses do not fit within your project plan, your budget is restricted, or you are looking for a quick educational advancement, take advantage of the wealth of free online training available to you. Choose from hundreds of topics across four series in this free curriculum – whether you are new to MicroStrategy or an expert, there is a convenient online course for you.

Core Series — Version 9

The Comprehensive Series contains online courses that serve as the foundation for introductory training:

Project Design Essentials Online

  • Introduction to MicroStrategy Architect
  • Designing the Local Data Model
  • Designing the Data Warehouse Schema
  • Creating a Project in MicroStrategy Architect
  • Working with Tables
  • Working with Facts
  • Working with Attributes
  • Working with User Hierarchies
  • Introduction to the Architect Graphical Interface

Dynamic Dashboards Online

  • Introduction to Dashboards
  • Creating Dynamic Dashboards
  • Flash Mode and Widgets
  • Designing Multipanel Dashboards
  • Graphs in Documents
  • Widgets II
  • Document Performance Considerations

Document Essentials Online

  • Introduction to Report Services
  • Creating Documents
  • Document Basics
  • Document Design Concepts
  • Documents and MicroStrategy OLAP Services
  • Document Design Methodology
  • Useful Design Techniques
  • Linking from Documents
  • Multiple Dataset Considerations
  • Document Performance Considerations
  • Report Services in MicroStrategy Desktop

Advanced Reporting Online

  • Introduction to Advanced Reporting
  • Advanced Metrics
  • Advanced Filters
  • Consolidations and Custom Groups
  • Advanced OLAP Services
  • Derived Elements
  • Report Data Options
  • Drill Maps
  • Report Developer Tools
  • MicroStrategy Tutorial
  • Additional Topics

Introduction to BI with MicroStrategy

  • Introduction to MicroStrategy Business Intelligence
  • The MicroStrategy Platform
  • MicroStrategy Reporting Terminology
  • Versions of MicroStrategy Web and Introduction to the MicroStrategy Web Interface
  • Executing Reports and Documents
  • Basic Report Manipulators in MicroStrategy Web
  • Overview of Report Services
  • Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards

MicroStrategy Distribution Services Online

  • Key Features
  • Distribution Services for End Users
  • Administering Subscriptions in Web
  • Configuring Distribution Services
  • Monitoring and Managing Subscriptions

MicroStrategy Mobile for Blackberry® Devices

  • Introduction to MicroStrategy Mobile
  • Working with MicroStrategy Mobile
  • Analyzing Reports and Documents
  • Designing Reports and Documents
  • MicroStrategy Mobile Administration

Reporting Essentials Online

  • Introduction to MicroStrategy Business Intelligence
  • Introduction to MicroStrategy Desktop
  • Reports in Desktop
  • Report Manipulators in Desktop
  • Filters
  • Metrics
  • MicroStrategy OLAP Services in Desktop
  • Prompts and Searches
  • MicroStrategy Tutorial
  • Report Developer Tools and Project Preferences

Core Series — Version 8

The Comprehensive Series contains online courses that serve as the foundation for introductory training:

Report Services Online

  • Introduction to Report Services
  • Document Basics
  • Document Design Concepts
  • Useful Design Techniques

Administrator Online

  • Application Lifecycle Management
  • MicroStrategy User Merge Wizard
  • MicroStrategy Command Manager
  • MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager

Advanced Reporting Online

  • Introduction to Advanced Reporting
  • Advanced Metrics (Parts I - III)
  • Advanced Filters (Parts I and II)
  • Consolidations and Custom Groups
  • Advanced Prompts
  • Advanced OLAP Services
  • Drill Maps
  • Derived Elements
  • Report Data Options (Parts I and II)
  • Report Developer Tools
  • MicroStrategy Tutorial
  • Additional Topics

Data Mining Services Essentials Online

  • Introduction to Data Mining
  • Data Mining with BI Applications
  • Creating Predictive Models with MicroStrategy
  • Importing Predictive Models Created with Third-Party Data Mining Applications

Dynamic Dashboards 100 Online

  • Introduction to Dashboarding
  • Creating Dynamic Dashboards
  • Flash Mode
  • MicroStrategy Dashboard Design Recommendations

Enterprise Manager Essentials Online

  • Introduction to MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager
  • The Enterprise Manager Project
  • Extending the Enterprise Manager Project
  • Configuring and Maintaining Enterprise Manager
  • Upgrading Enterprise Manager

Freeform SQL Essentials Online

  • Introduction to Freeform SQL Reporting
  • Creating Freeform SQL Reports
  • Prompts in Freeform SQL Reports
  • Advanced Topics for Freeform SQL Reports
  • Security for Freeform SQL Reports

Integrity Manager Essentials Online

  • Introduction to Integrity Manager
  • Integrity Manager Operational Modes
  • Analyzing Integrity Manager Test Results
  • Implementation Scenarios of Integrity Manager

Intelligence Server Administration Online

  • Introduction to MicroStrategy Administration
  • Architecture and Query Flow
  • Configuration and Administration Interface
  • Startup and Connectivity
  • Security
  • Intelligence Server Administration
  • Caching and Scheduling
  • Clustering
  • Data Marts

Intelligence Server Universal Edition Online

  • Implementing Intelligence Server Universal Edition
  • OLAP Cube Reporting Essentials Online
  • Introduction to OLAP Cube Reports
  • Working with SAP® BW Cubes
  • Working With Microsoft® SQL Server™ Analysis Services Cubes
  • Working with Hyperion Essbase Cubes

MicroStrategy Office Essentials Online

  • Introduction to MicroStrategy Office
  • Using MicroStrategy Office
  • Using Advanced Features of MicroStrategy Office
  • MicroStrategy Office Best Practices

Narrowcasting Essentials Online

  • MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server Overview
  • Information Sources
  • Creating a Simple Service
  • Message Contents
  • Message Recipients
  • Message Delivery
  • Personalization
  • Subscription Portal Functionality
  • Web Delivery and Administration

OLAP Cube Reporting Essentials

 

Project Design Online

  • Introduction to MicroStrategy Architect
  • The Logical Data Model
  • The Physical Warehouse Schema
  • Advanced Data Modeling and Schema Design
  • Introduction to Project Creation and MicroStrategy Architect
  • Facts
  • Attributes
  • Hierarchies
  • Project Optimization and Maintenance

What's New Series

With built-in simulations of the MicroStrategy products, the What's New Series lets you experience new features of the latest MicroStrategy software release. These courses highlight key software changes and improvements:

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.2 for Administrators

MicroStrategy Administration

  • Executing a Test Under Multiple MicroStrategy User Accounts
  • Running a Report Using Multiple Prompt Answers
  • Support for UNIX to Windows File Delivery
  • Understanding New Features of Command Manager
  • Understanding New Features of Configuration Wizard
  • Understanding New Features of Object Manager

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.2 for Mobile Users

MicroStrategy Mobile for iPhone and iPad

  • PDF Reader
  • Printing Reports and Documents

MicroStrategy Mobile for Web Users

  • Push Notification Support
  • Calendar Widget for iPad

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.2 for Web Users

MicroStrategy Web

  • Shortcuts Can Be Renamed
  • Exporting Links for Reports and Documents
  • Prompts Don't Need to Be Answered Before Opening a Report in Design Mode
  • Multi-Select Cells in Grids
  • Additional Web Browser Support
  • Exporting Documents to Excel 2007
  • Exporting to Microsoft Mac Office 2011
  • Access Control Lists Can Be Edited
  • Assign Colors to Metrics in Graphs Instead of Series
  • MDX Objects Available in Report Sidebar
  • ESRI Map Widget Can Display Metric Values as Bubbles

Data Import

  • Mapping to Project Attributes
  • Subscribe and Scheduled Data Import Republish
  • Freeform SQL Enhancements
  • Set ACLs and Roles on Intelligent Cubes and Other Objects from MicroStrategy Web
  • Increased Limit for Microsoft Excel Import from 30 MB to 150 MB

MicroStrategy Report Services

  • Interactive Visual Data Insight
  • Interactive Visual Data Insight Capabilities
  • Multiselect Drilling in Express View Mode
  • Title Bar for Stand-Alone Selectors
  • Scrollable Panel Stacks
  • Selector Targeting Another Selector in Web
  • Auto Selector on Panel Stacks
  • Replace Dataset
  • Metric Condition Selectors
  • Not in List Attribute Element Selectors
  • Information Window in Express and Flash Mode
  • Google Maps Widget

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.2 for Office Users

MicroStrategy Office

  • Create Filters Using MicroStrategy Office
  • Create Prompts Using MicroStrategy Office
  • Understanding Other Updates to MicroStrategy Office

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.2 for Project Architects

MicroStrategy Architect

  • MultiSource Options
  • Progress Bar
  • Usability Improvements
  • Sample Data in Hierarchy View
  • Logical Size Editor

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.2 for Data Mining Analysts

MicroStrategy Data Mining Services

  • Create Derived Training Metric
  • Using an Attribute as Input for Predictive Metric
  • New and Enhanced Statistics in the Predictive Model Viewer
  • Non-Scoring Models

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.2 for OLAP Services

MicroStrategy OLAP Services

  • Incremental Refresh
  • Dynamic Sourcing for Intelligent Cubes from MDX Sources
  • Incremental Fetch for Element Browsing Against Intelligent Cubes
  • Setting to Control Incremental Cube Size Growth

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.2 for SDK Developers

MicroStrategy SDK

  • Web SDK Enhancements
  • Visualization SDK Enhancements

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.0.2 for Administrators

Intelligence Server

  • Understanding the New Performance Counters
  • Understanding the New VLDB Settings
  • Governing Intelligence Server Memory

Health Center

  • Using the Health Center for System Checks
  • Understanding the Data Collector Improvements

Object Manager

  • Understanding Update Package Enhancements and Undo Update Packages

Command Manager

  • Encrypting Scripts

Internationalization

  • Understanding the New Linguist Role

Data Access Enhancements

  • Understanding Security Filter Enhancements

Upgrading to 9.0.2

  • Upgrading to MicroStrategy 9.0.2

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.0.2 for Analysts

MicroStrategy Data Mining Services

  • Creating Predictive Metrics Through Scheduled Reports
  • Understanding Enhanced Descriptive Statistics
  • Understanding the Separate Icon and Sub-Type for Training Metrics
  • Understanding the Enhanced Logistic Regression Algorithm
  • Understanding the New Model Quality Statistic for Regression Models
  • Understanding PMML Support Enhancements

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.0.2 for Desktop Developers

Report Services

  • Understanding Enhancements to Dynamic Sourcing
  • Understanding Portable Documents

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.0.2 for Mobile Users

MicroStrategy Mobile for iPhone and iPad

  • Understanding the New Widgets for MicroStrategy Mobile for iPhone
  • Understanding the New Widgets for MicroStrategy Mobile for iPad

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.0.2 for Office Users

MicroStrategy Office

  • Understanding Updates to MicroStrategy Office

What's New in MicroStraegy 9.0.2 for Project Architects

MicroStrategy Architect

  • Understanding Updates to Improve Hueristics for Data Modeling
  • Understanding Usability Improvements
  • Supporting Multi-User Architecting

Data Access Enhancements

  • Using the New MDX Cube Source
  • Using Freeform XQuery Access to Consume Data From from Web Services

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.0.2 for SDK Users

MicroStrategy SDK

  • Understanding the Updates to the MicroStrategy Web Customization Editor
  • Understanding Updates to Visualization SDK
  • Customizing Ribbons
  • Understanding Updates to the Mobile SDK

What's New in MicroStrategy 9.0.2 for Web Users

MicroStrategy Web

  • Creating or Modifying Existing Custom Groups
  • Understanding the New Express Mode
  • Creating Metric-to-Metric and Attribute-to-Attribute Filters
  • Understanding Updated Portal Support
  • Opening Links from Widgets
  • Understanding Enhancements to the Microchart Widget
  • Importing Data as an Intelligent Cube
  • Exporting Flash Files as PDF or MHT
  • Understanding the New Features Added to Selectors
  • Understanding the New Flash Grid Interactivity

MicroStrategy Distribution Services

  • Sending Flash Documents

MicroStrategy Mobile for iPhone and iPad

  • Understanding the New Widgets for MicroStrategy Mobile for iPad
  • Understanding the New Widgets for MicroStrategy Mobile for iPhone

Hot Topic Series

Hot Topics are short, online lessons that provide tips, tricks, insights into more advanced settings or tools, and answers to frequently asked questions.

Hot Topics with MicroStrategy Software

  • Conditional Logic Metrics
  • Dynamic Rolling Date Filters
  • Finding Last Orders for Customers
  • Graph Formatting Tips
  • How Timeout Settings Affect MicroStrategy Web Users
  • Missing Lookup Elements
  • Narrowcast Server Repository Copy Tool
  • Project Duplication
  • Random Sampling of Data
  • Scan MD
  • Using Report Services Documents To Join Data from Multiple Sources

Companion Series

The Companion Series introduces you to companion technologies to the MicroStrategy platform such as SQL, Unix, and Universal Web Tuning, as practice for the MicroStrategy Certified Engineer Program. Explore today:

MicroStrategy Universal Tuning

  • MicroStrategy Intelligence Server Universal Tuning
  • MicroStrategy Web Universal Tuning

UNIX Companion

  • UNIX Fundamentals
  • UNIX Shell and UNIX Basics

SQL Essentials Companion

  • Introduction to SQL and RDBMS
  • Basic Data Access
  • Advanced Data Access
  • Modifying Data and Structures

Benefits of Online Education Courses:

  • Provides self-paced, interactive training, enabling you to learn at your own pace
  • Convenient for the learning professional -- timely access to courses available 24/7
  • Offers an alternative to instructor-led courses for individuals who cannot attend live instruction due to budget or time constraints
  • Provides refresher training on instructor-led courses, serving as the perfect follow-up
  • Educates individuals on the latest product releases and version changes without having to attend class