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