Features | Benefits | FAQs

1. What is Enterprise Manager?
Enterprise Manager is a monitoring tool that uses statistics logs generated by business intelligence application usage and provides information about your MicroStrategy environment.

2. What does Enterprise Manager allow administrators to do?
The Enterprise Manager monitoring application assists systems analysts, project managers, and database administrators in performing multi-dimensional analysis on the use of business intelligence systems. Tasks include:

• Allocating system resources according to warehouse usage trends
• Researching efficient aggregation, indexing, and partitioning strategies
• Performing user profiling
• Determining the optimal time to run scheduled jobs

3. What are the benefits of using Enterprise Manager?
Enterprise Manager provides many pre-defined reports and tuning modules, which enable administrators to rapidly perform system-monitoring queries and build applications such as:

• Billing is useful for commercial and inter-departmental implementations of business intelligence applications. Enterprise Manager can provide data for use in creating invoices based on frequency of use, data volume, or server cycles consumed.
• Web Analysis enables administrators to assess the usage from MicroStrategy Web clients compared to other clients, and includes overall trends, query volume compared to desktop clients, and the total number of reports executed.
• Tuning enables administrators to make decisions regarding caching, specifying query governing thresholds, and report optimization.
• Quick Trends show today's usage in relation to performance over the past month. Reports include trending information on web access, job interruptions, user community size and the average number of reports per user.
• Load Balancing details activity on each MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, including high and low traffic periods. This information helps administrators determine optimal time periods for data warehouse loads, scheduled jobs, and server clustering strategies.

4. How long does it take to learn Enterprise Manager?
Enterprise Manager is a MicroStrategy platform project. Users of all the MicroStrategy interfaces will be immediately comfortable with Enterprise Manager.

5. Can we create new reports in Enterprise Manager?
Yes. Enterprise Manager is a standard MicroStrategy project with over predefined 40 reports and 350 report objects. New reports and metrics can be created to suit any business intelligence environment. Full documentation of the monitoring data model and multidimensional model is provided so you can tweak any part of the application.

6. What is the source of the information accessed by Enterprise Manager?
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server statistics logs feed usage data into the monitoring data warehouse. The logs contain information about the system configuration and detailed operations. Reference information for the monitoring data warehouse is extracted from the MicroStrategy metadata repositories. This data identifies the users, data warehouse objects, reports and report objects used in the environment.

7. What is the Enterprise Manager data loading process?
The data loading process is an automated Windows NT service that extracts data from the server statistics logs and metadata and populates the Enterprise Manager monitoring data warehouse on a regular basis.

8. Can I set the time periods that the data loading process runs?
The schedule to execute the data loading process can be fine-tuned using the Enterprise Manager console. Parameters that can be adjusted are:

• The time interval to rerun the data load process
• The time range each day when the data load process will run
• The days of the week to run the data load process
• The date range for which the data load process is valid