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MicroStrategy Features and Functionality – Introductory
MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials
This two-day course provides students with an overview of the extensive reporting capabilities of MicroStrategy Desktop. Participants leave with an understanding of report creation and the numerous data and style report manipulations in MicroStrategy Desktop, including auto-style creation, drilling, data pivoting, page-by, outline mode, grid and graph formatting, and thresholds.
Additionally, participants become versed in the creation of basic components that are essential in the creation of reports, including report filters, metrics, MicroStrategy OLAP Services features, prompts, and searches. Students also discover report design principles that leverage the capabilities of MicroStrategy Desktop.
All lectures are reinforced with hands-on exercises.
Topics:
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Introduction to MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Introduction to MicroStrategy Desktop Reports Data manipulations Style manipulations Filters |
Metrics MicroStrategy OLAP Services
Prompts and searches |
| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Desktop, Microstrategy OLAP Services |
| Course Duration: | Two days |
| Who Should Attend: | Project architects, desktop developers, administrators, and SDK developers |
| Prerequisites: | Familiarity with using Windows interfaces |
MicroStrategy Architect: Project Design Essentials
This two-day course provides students with an overview of the project design process, from designing the logical data model and physical schema for the data warehouse to creating a project in MicroStrategy Architect.
Students first learn about the role of MicroStrategy Architect in supporting various project functions. Next, students discover ways to design a logical data model and physical schema in preparation for creating a MicroStrategy project. Finally, students learn about the project creation process, including how to work with tables, facts, attributes, and user hierarchies to create a fully-functioning MicroStrategy project.
Throughout this course, students get hands-on practice with designing and creating MicroStrategy projects via a series of exercises.
Topics:
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Introduction to MicroStrategy Architect
Designing the logical data model
Designing the data warehouse schema
Creating a project in MicroStrategy Architect
Introduction to the Architect graphical interface
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Working with tables
Working with facts
Working with attributes
Working with user hierarchies
Automatic schema recognition
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Architect |
| Course Duration: | Two days |
| Who Should Attend: | Project architects and anyone else with an interest in designing and creating projects with MicroStrategy |
| Prerequisites: | Desktop: Reporting Essentials |
MicroStrategy Report Services: Document Essentials
This one-day course provides an overview of document creation using MicroStrategy Report Services™ in MicroStrategy Web™. The course introduces the many features that enable report designers to create sophisticated, boardroom-quality documents. Participants learn the features of Report Services, the Document Editor’s structure and properties, techniques for formatting documents, document performance considerations, and more. Students gain hands-on practice through a series of exercises.
Topics:
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Introduction to Report Services
Creating documents
Document design concepts
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Documents and OLAP services
Linking from documents to other websites, reports, and documents |
| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Report Services |
| Course Duration: | One day |
| Who Should Attend: | Document developers and anyone who has an interest in creating boardroom-quality documents with MicroStrategy Report Services |
| Prerequisites: | MicroStrategy Web for Reporters and Analysts and
MicroStrategy Web for Professionals OR MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials |
MicroStrategy Report Services: Dynamic Dashboards
This two-day course explores the features and functionality of Report Services Dynamic Enterprise Dashboards™. These dashboards are a specific style of Report Services document. The course begins by introducing participants to dashboard design best practices. Students then learn about the individual features, such as panel stacks, selectors, and advanced visualizations, which make it possible to create fully interactive dashboards. Participants also study best practices for including graphs in dashboards. The course covers documents that display in DHTML (AJAX) modes and Flash Mode and explores document performance considerations for these modes. Finally, students get to explore the features and capabilities of Visual Insight, MicroStrategy’s newest document product. Throughout the course, students will get hands-on practice through a series of exercises.
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Introduction to dashboards
Creating dynamic dashboards
Graphs in documents
Flash mode and widgets
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Flash selectors and formatting
Dashboard design considerations
Document performance considerations
Visual Insight
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Report Services |
| Course Duration: | Two days |
| Who Should Attend: | Document developers and anyone who has an interest in creating dynamic enterprise dashboards with MicroStrategy Report Services |
| Prerequisites: | MicroStrategy Report Services: Document Essentials |
Implementing MicroStrategy: Development and Deployment
This two-day course is designed to provide an intensive overview of the MicroStrategy platform. In this course, you will learn about the functionality MicroStrategy provides for creating projects, developing reports, and designing documents, analyses and dynamic enterprise dashboards. You will also learn about deploying reports and documents through a variety of interfaces and delivery mechanisms. In addition, you will learn about administering and maintaining projects over time. Through a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises, this course provides examples of the core capabilities of the MicroStrategy platform and how you can use it to deliver enterprise reporting and analysis to your users.
A portion of this course is dedicated to hands-on learning. Each day focuses on a different group of MicroStrategy products:
| Module | Products | Role |
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| Project Design, Basic Desktop Reporting, Advanced Desktop Reporting, MicroStrategy Web Reporting | MicroStrategy Architect, Desktop, OLAP Services, MicroStrategy Web | Project Architects, Desktop Developers, Web Report Developers |
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| Basic Documents, Dynamic Dashboards, Visual Insight Analyses, Office and Mobile Deployment, Transaction Services, Report Distribution, and Administration | MicroStrategy Web, Report Services, Transaction Services, MicroStrategy Office, Intelligence Server, MicroStrategy Mobile, Distribution Services, Object Manager, Integrity Manager, Command Manager, and Enterprise Manager | Document, Dashboard and Analysis Developers, Mobile Users and Developers, Project Administrators |
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Day 1: Project Design, Basic Reporting, Advanced Reporting, and Web Reporting
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Day 2: Basic Documents, Dynamic Dashboards, Office and Mobile Deployment, Transaction Services, Report Distribution, and Administration
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| Course Duration: | Two days |
| Who Should Attend: | Project leads, new customers who want an introduction to the MicroStrategy platform, and existing customers who want to gain hands-on practice with creating a complete MicroStrategy business intelligence solution |
| Prerequisites: | None |
MicroStrategy Mobile for App Developers
This two-day course provides an overview of the features and functionality available in MicroStrategy Mobile for Apple® iPad™, Apple iPhone®, and Android™ devices. It teaches students how to configure and interact with MicroStrategy Business Intelligence data using the MicroStrategy Mobile apps, as well as available security options. The students will learn how to design and implement holistic MicroStrategy Mobile applications using a combination of Report Services documents and reports. They will learn how to design grid and graph reports as well as Report Services documents for optimal display on mobile devices, with a heavy emphasis on iPad and iPhone. Students will also explore Mobile widgets. Lastly, students will acquire hands-on experience with a workshop. The course assumes that you are already familiar with MicroStrategy Web and MicroStrategy Report Services functionality and related terminology. Throughout the course, you will gain hands-on practice through a series of exercises.
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MicroStrategy Mobile Architecture and Apps
Mobile Interface Functionality
Configuration and security
Designing MicroStrategy Mobile applications
Application Interconnectivity and Linking
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Designing reports and documents
Designing widgets
MicroStrategy Mobile workshop |
| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Mobile MicroStrategy Report Services |
| Course Duration: | 2 days |
| Who Should Attend: | MicroStrategy power users or report/document developers who want to create applications for MicroStrategy Mobile end users |
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MicroStrategy Web Essentials
This half-day course provides a high-level overview of MicroStrategy Web. It also introduces students to several products, such as Report Services, Distribution Services, and OLAP Services, which work within the MicroStrategy Web interface to provide additional features. The course is designed for all new MicroStrategy Web users or project leads who want to learn the basics, and are not quite ready for the in-depth training delivered through other courses, such as MicroStrategy Web for Reporters and Analysts and MicroStrategy Web for Professionals. Students will first learn about the MicroStrategy BI architecture and how MicroStrategy Web provides access to a variety of interactive reporting capabilities. They will then review specific MicroStrategy WebTM capabilities by learning how to use dynamic dashboards, Visual Insight, documents, and reports in MicroStrategy Web. They will also learn how to use OLAP Services features, various document manipulations, and prompts. The course concludes with an introduction to MicroStrategy Mobile. The course covers the features available for the Web Reporter, Web Analyst, and Web Professional roles.
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Introduction to MicroStrategy Business Intelligence Introduction to MicroStrategy Web Dynamic Dashboards
Visual Insight
Other Documents
Reports in MicroStrategy Web
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OLAP Services in MicroStrategy Web
Prompts in MicroStrategy Web
Manipulating and Distributing Grids and Documents
Introduction to MicroStrategy Mobile |
| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Web, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy OLAP Services, MicroStrategy Mobile, MicroStrategy Distribution Services |
| Course Duration: | Half day |
| Who Should Attend: | Project Leads, Project Managers, MicroStrategy Web Users |
| Prerequisites: | None |
MicroStrategy Web for Reporters and Analysts
This two-day course is designed for end users of MicroStrategy Web™. Specifically, this course covers functionality available to users at the Web Reporter and Web Analyst levels. Students will leave with a thorough understanding of the power and flexibility of the MicroStrategy Web interface. Students will learn how to perform basic and advanced analysis on reports and documents using MicroStrategy Web. They will also learn about basic report creation. Students will have the opportunity to practice with hands-on exercises for executing and manipulating reports and documents and formatting and creating reports in MicroStrategy Web.
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Introduction to MicroStrategy business intelligence
Using the MicroStrategy Web interface
Report and document manipulations in MicroStrategy Web
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Report formatting in MicroStrategy Web Prompts in MicroStrategy Web Basic report creation in MicroStrategy Web
Distribution services in MicroStrategy Web
Interacting with Flash documents in MicroStrategy Web
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Web |
| Course Duration: | Two days |
| Who Should Attend: | MicroStrategy Web end-users and analysts |
| Prerequisites: | None |
MicroStrategy Web for Professionals
This one-day course is designed for MicroStrategy Web™ report designers who use the Web Professional version of MicroStrategy Web. Students will first learn about the Web Professional version of MicroStrategy Web. They will then learn how to create reports, report filters, and prompts using Design Mode. The course covers the advanced report design features available in Web Professional.
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Introduction to MicroStrategy Web for Professionals Reports in MicroStrategy Web
Filters
Prompts
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OLAP Services in MicroStrategy Web
Advanced report formatting in MicroStrategy Web
Custom groups in MicroStrategy Web
Distribution services
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Web |
| Course Duration: | One day |
| Who Should Attend: | Report Developers, Report Analysts, and Power Web End Users |
| Prerequisite: | MicroStrategy Web for Reporters and Analysts |
MicroStrategy Visual Insight Essentials
This one-day course teaches you how to transform a dataset into an appealing, insightful Visual Insight (VI) analysis object. VI analysis objects are useful for exploring data in a very interactive, exploratory, and highly graphical way. They can help you discover trends or anomalies in your data that you would not typically notice from a traditional spreadsheet or report. In this course, you will learn about the different types of visual displays as well as best uses for each type. You will also learn about popular Visual Insight capabilities, such as filtering, drilling, and creating derived metrics, which help you explore your data and discover exceptions. The course includes a exercises that reinforces Visual Insight concepts in a very practical, hands-on way.
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Introduction to Visual Insight
Data Import
Using Visual insight
Visualizations
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Visual Insight capabilities
Publishing and Sharing
Appendix A: SalesForce.com |
| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Web, MicroStrategy Visual Insight, MicroStrategy Data Import |
| Course Duration: | 1 day |
| Who Should Attend: | Project Managers, Web Reporters, Web Analysts, Web Developers, Web Professionals |
| Prerequisite: | None, but a high-level knowledge of MicroStrategy Web and MicroStrategy Report Services is helpful |
MicroStrategy Office Essentials
This one day course provides students with a solid understanding of the capabilities of MicroStrategy Office and how it utilizes the full power of MicroStrategy in the familiar environment of Microsoft® Office. Participants will leave with an understanding of how to run live business intelligence reports while leveraging the formatting capabilities of MicroStrategy and Microsoft. Additionally, participants will be versed in the different types of reports available to them, how to format and share reports, and how to maintain the security of data while sharing reports. Participants will also be provided with the best practices of using MicroStrategy Office, including analyzing data from multiple data sources, adding metrics and calculations to an existing report, and leveraging Microsoft Outlook to distribute MicroStrategy Office documents. The lecture will be reinforced with hands-on exercises.
Topics:
- Introduction to MicroStrategy Office
- MicroStrategy Office Overview
- MicroStrategy BI Architecture
- MicroStrategy Terminology
- Using MicroStrategy Office
- MicroStrategy Office Interface
- Executing Reports and Documents
- Running Reports in Workbooks, Presentations and Word
- Refresh, Re-execute, and Re-prompt Reports and Documents.
- Prompts in MicroStrategy Office
- Different types of Prompts
- Prompt options
- Report and Document Manipulations
- Creating Reports and Documents
- Create Reports
- Create Scorecards and Dashboards
- MicroStrategy Office Best Practices
| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Office |
| Course Duration: | 1 day |
| Who Should Attend: | Business Analysts, End Users |
| Prerequisites: | None |
MicroStrategy Features and Functionality – Advanced
Administration: Configuration and Security
This three-day course prepares BI professionals for the role of MicroStrategy administrator, including how to configure a MicroStrategy environment and set up its security layers.
The first day introduces students to the tasks that a MicroStrategy administrator usually performs. Students learn about the BI architecture, connectivity setup, administration interface, management of users and groups, and definition of authentication methods for their projects.
During the second day, students learn about administrative tasks and settings available in MicroStrategy Web, the different layers of security in the MicroStrategy environment, and history list management, caching, and cubes.
On the last day, students learn about internationalization, the benefits of clustering, MicroStrategy Health Center, schedules and subscription management, and Distribution Services. Students also learn ways to tune and optimize their MicroStrategy environments. The goal of this course is to prepare BI professionals for the role of MicroStrategy administrators.
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Introduction to Administration
Architecture and query flow
Connectivity
Administration interface
Managing MicroStrategy users and groups
Authentication modes
MicroStrategy Web administration
Security
History list management
In-memory caching
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In-Memory intelligent cubes
Internationalization
Clustering
MicroStrategy Health Center
Schedules and subscriptions
Distribution Services
Tuning
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, MicroStrategy Web, MicroStrategy Health Center, MicroStrategy Distribution Services |
| Course Duration: | Three days |
| Who Should Attend: | MicroStrategy administrators |
| Prerequisites: | Desktop: Reporting Essentials |
Administration: Application Management
This one-day course provides an overview of the tasks involved in managing the application life-cycle of the MicroStrategy platform. At first, students will have a brief introduction of the important tools available to manage the system. Then students will learn the purpose and how to use each one of the following tools, presented in the introduction chapter:
Object Manager, Project Merge, Integrity Manager, Command Manager, System Manager, Enterprise Manager, and Change Journaling.
The goal of this course is to prepare BI professionals for the role of MicroStrategy administrators, who understand the application life-cycle, follow the MicroStrategy methodology to migrate objects, and can learn how to maintain the environment on which they are working.
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Introduction to application management
Object Migration
MicroStrategy Integrity Manager
MicroStrategy Command Manager
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MicroStrategy System Manager
MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager
Change journaling
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, MicroStrategy Web, MicroStrategy Object Manager, MicroStrategy Project Merge, MicroStrategy Integrity Manager, MicroStrategy Command Manager, MicroStrategy System Manager, and MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager |
| Course Duration: | One day |
| Who Should Attend: | MicroStrategy administrators |
| Prerequisites: | MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials |
Engine Essentials
This two-day course explores the logic and behavior of the MicroStrategy engine.
Students learn how the engine generates Structured Query Language (SQL) for a variety of reporting scenarios. After an overview of the MicroStrategy engine architecture, students focus on the SQL generated by the MicroStrategy engine for common reporting requirements such as advanced metrics, set qualification filters, and analytical engine features.
Students also explore ways to tune and optimize the MicroStrategy engine through the use of VLDB (Very Large Database) properties. Students learn what VLDB properties are and how they can be defined at different levels of a MicroStrategy project. Students review the most commonly used VLDB properties in certain categories, such as indexing, joins, pre/post statements, query optimizations, and tables.
Throughout the course, students gain hands-on practice via a series of exercises.
Topics:
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Introduction to the MicroStrategy engine
Basic optimizations
Templates
Metrics
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Filters
The analytical engine
Introduction to VLDB properties
VLDB Properties
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy OLAP Services |
| Course Duration: | Two days |
| Who Should Attend: | MicroStrategy report developers, along with anyone who has an interest in learning how to use VLDB properties to tune the MicroStrategy Engine for optimal performance |
| Prerequisites: | Desktop: Advanced Reporting |
MicroStrategy Architect: Advanced Project Design
This one-day course covers advanced features available to project designers.
First, students learn how to manage project data sources using primary and secondary database instances as well as how to maintain project schema with the Architect graphical interface. Students also learn how to create aggregate tables using data marts, as well as how to use MicroStrategy MultiSource Option to configure projects to access heterogeneous data sources.
Finally, students learn about fact level extensions, transformations, and partition mappings.
Students get hands-on practice during the course through exercises.
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Introduction to advanced project design
Maintaining project schema
Using MultiSource Option
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Fact level extensions
Transformations
Partitioning
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy Architect, MultiSource Option |
| Course Duration: | One Day |
| Who Should Attend: | MicroStrategy project architects, along with anyone who has an interest in designing and creating projects with MicroStrategy Architect |
| Prerequisites: | Basic SQL knowledge Desktop: Reporting Essentials Architect: Project Design Essentials |
Advanced Data Warehousing
This 2-day course covers advanced issues in data warehousing design and explains how to work with these complexities when implementing a MicroStrategy project. Students will learn how to model complex hierarchies and attribute relationships, implement role attributes and slowly changing dimensions, design the schema for optimal performance, use logical views to solve data modeling and schema design issues, and optimize query performance using both database and MicroStrategy functionality. Students will get hands-on practice during the course through exercises.
Topics:
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Day One Introduction to advanced data warehousing
Advanced schema design
Logical views
Many-to-many relationships Attribute roles |
Day Two Hierarchies
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Architect |
| Course Duration: | Two Days |
| Who Should Attend: | Project designers, database administrators, and anyone who has an interest in learning how to resolve complex data warehouse modeling and design issues to best support aMicroStrategy reporting environment |
| Prerequisites: | Basic knowledge of SQL MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials MicroStrategy Architect: Project Design Essentials MicroStrategy Architect: Advanced Project Design |
Data Mining and Advanced Analytics
This two-day course provides students with an understanding of the capabilities of MicroStrategy Data Mining Services.
MicroStrategy Data Mining Services is a fully integrated component of the MicroStrategy BI platform that delivers the results of predictive models to all users in familiar, highly formatted, and interactive reports and documents. Participants are introduced to the concept of advanced analytics and data mining as well as their applications. They learn how to develop predictive models using MicroStrategy, or import models from third-party data mining vendors. Participants also learn data mining best practices.
Class lectures are reinforced with hands-on exercises.
Topics:
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Introduction to data mining
Introduction to Data Mining Services
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Forecasting with MicroStrategy
Classification with MicroStrategy
Association rules
Cluster analysis
Data mining best practices |
| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy data mining functionality in MicroStrategy Desktop |
| Course Duration: | Two Days |
| Who Should Attend: | Report designers, advanced business analysts, and anyone else who wants to use MicroStrategy data mining services for predictive and classification analysis |
| Prerequisites: | Desktop: Reporting Essentials |
Freeform SQL Essentials
This one-day course covers the capabilities and benefits of freeform SQL reports created in MicroStrategy Desktop.
Students learn how to configure a freeform SQL database instance, create freeform SQL reports within the freeform SQL editor, use prompts in freeform SQL reports, compose advanced queries, access data from non-relational data sources, and implement security features within freeform SQL reports.
Hands-on exercises enable students to create freeform SQL reports against various data sources to reinforce the concepts covered in the course.
Topics:
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Introduction to freeform SQL reporting
Creating freeform SQL reports
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Prompts in freeform SQL reports
Advanced topics for freeform SQL reports
Security for freeform SQL Reports
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Desktop |
| Course Duration: | One Day |
| Who Should Attend: | MicroStrategy report developers, MicroStrategy advanced business analysts, and anyone who has an interest in learning how to create reports with user-defined SQL queries |
| Prerequisites: | Basic SQL knowledge Desktop: Reporting Essentials Architect: Project Design Essentials |
Deploying MicroStrategy High Performance BI
This two-day course presents the best practices of implementing MicroStrategy BI achieving High Performance results. In this course, you will first be introduced to the MicroStrategy High Performance initiative. Then, you will learn about the components of performance and about how to optimize the five main areas of a BI system: in-memory caching and cubes, data transfer, system configuration, client rendering, and data source access. Finally, students will learn the basics about performance testing methodology, gaining solid knowledge that will enable them to choose the right type of tests for their specific performance requirements. Finally, students are required to perform a three-hour workshop that will reinforce the skills learned from this course. The goal of this course is to provide you with the skills to deploy your BI applications, achieving High Performance in every step of the way.
The course includes a hands-on workshop.
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Introduction to High Performance
In-memory caching and cubes
Data transfer
System architecture and configuration
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Data presentation: reports, dashboards, and mobile
Data source access
Performance testing methodology
Workshop: designing a high performance dashboard |
| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy Architect, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server, MicroStrategy Web, MicroStrategy OLAP Services |
| Course Duration: | Two Days |
| Who Should Attend: | MicroStrategy administrators, project managers, developers, and architects |
| Prerequisites: |
MicroStrategy Administration: Configuration and Security MicroStrategy Administration: Application Management and Tuning MicroStrategy Report Services: Dynamic Dashboards |
MicroStrategy Desktop: Advanced Reporting
In this three-day course, participants gain a thorough understanding of the most powerful capabilities of MicroStrategy Desktop.
Students learn how to create numerous types of advanced metrics, including level metrics, non-aggregatable metrics, and transformation metrics. Students also discover ways to create different types of advanced filters, including attribute-to-attribute filters, joint element lists, and dynamic date filters. Students then learn about consolidations, custom groups, and advanced MicroStrategy OLAP Services™ features, such as Intelligent Cubes and derived elements.
The course concludes with report data options, drill maps, and other report developer tools, such as Find and Replace and the Project Documentation Wizard. Students gain hands-on practice through a series of exercises.
Topics:
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Introduction to Advanced Reporting Advanced metrics
Advanced filters
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Consolidations and custom groups Advanced OLAP services
Derived elements Report data options Drill maps Report developer tools
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Desktop MicroStrategy OLAP Services |
| Course Duration: | Three days |
| Who Should Attend: | Desktop developers |
| Prerequisites: | Desktop: Reporting Essentials |
MicroStrategy Desktop: Advanced Reporting – Case Studies
This one-day course discusses advanced reporting scenarios using the features of MicroStrategy Desktop™. The course focuses on combining certain features and functionalities (covered in the MicroStrategy Desktop: Advanced Reporting course) to resolve a series of challenging reporting scenarios that are encountered across most businesses. A large portion of this course is dedicated to hands-on learning so that students can apply their knowledge of Desktop to answer sophisticated business questions. The course begins with a review of advanced concepts. The instructor will introduce a reporting scenario and students will have dedicated time to resolve it, after which the instructor will then review the recommended solution.
Topics:
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Introduction
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Reporting Scenarios
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Desktop |
| Course Duration: | One day |
| Who Should Attend: | Report Designers and Developers, Business Analysts, Production Consultants, Anyone who has an interest in learning how to combine MicroStrategy’s advanced features to solve challenging reporting scenarios |
| Prerequisites: | MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials, MicroStrategy Desktop: Advanced Reporting, Practical experience working with MicroStrategy |
MicroStrategy Transaction Services for Dashboard and Mobile App Developers
This two-day course provides an overview of the features and functionality available in MicroStrategy Transaction Services.
Students first learn about the common usage scenarios for MicroStrategy Transaction Services in MicroStrategy Mobile apps and in MicroStrategy Web. Next, students discover how to create freeform SQL reports and Transaction Services reports using the Freeform SQL Editor. Students then learn ways to create transaction-enabled dashboards and apps for MicroStrategy Web and MicroStrategy Mobile. Mobile-specific transactional features and other advanced topics are also explored. Finally, the class is introduced to creating freeform XQuery reports that interact with data provided by Web services.
The course assumes that students are already familiar with MicroStrategy Report Services and MicroStrategy Mobile functionality and related terminology. The course offers hands-on practice through a series of exercises plus a workshop.
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Using Transaction Services in MicroStrategy Mobile apps and in MicroStrategy Web Architecture overview
Creating freeform SQL reports Creating Transaction Services reports and documents
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MicroStrategy Mobile-specific features
Advanced topics
Creating freeform XQuery reports Workshop |
| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Desktop, MicroStrategy Report Services, MicroStrategy Transaction Services, MicroStrategy Mobile |
| Course Duration: | Two days |
| Who Should Attend: | MicroStrategy Mobile app developers, along with anyone else interested in building dashboards and apps that use MicroStrategy Transaction Services |
| Prerequisites: | Report Services: Dynamic Dashboards, Mobile for Apple iPad and iPhone As an option, students may bring an iPad to class to view their exercise on a mobile device. (An iPhone can be used for some exercises.) The device should meet these specifications:
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MicroStrategy Programming
MicroStrategy Web SDK: Customization Essentials
This two-day course is geared towards beginners with no prior MicroStrategy Web customization experience who want to learn how to perform basic customizations of their MicroStrategy Web application using MicroStrategy Web Software Development Kit (SDK). The class combines lectures and hands-on exercises, conducted in the Windows environment using MicroStrategy Web (J2EE version). Exercises involve basic customizations using configuration files, page layout design, Web beans placement, and creation of custom styles to modify reports display on MicroStrategy Web pages. Students will be exposed to MicroStrategy Web architecture, Web Customization Editor, Web beans, essential configuration files, and the MicroStrategy Developer Library.
Topics:
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Day One Introduction to MicroStrategy Web and SDK
MicroStrategy Web architecture
Web Customization Editor
Page definition and layout customization
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Day Two Data rendering
Task infrastructure
Data presentation, styles, and layout definition
Cascading Style Sheets
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Web SDK, MicroStrategy Web |
| Course Duration: | Two days |
| Who Should Attend: | Web interface designers, project managers, web application developers, and SI, OEM, and ASP partners with an application development focus |
| Prerequisites: | MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials Basic knowledge of HTML Familiarity with the basics of XML, JSP and CSS is helpful but not required |
MicroStrategy Web SDK: Customizing Security
This 1-day course is geared towards individuals tasked with customizing their MicroStrategy Web/Web Universal application, using the MicroStrategy 9.x Software Development Kit (SDK). You will learn about MicroStrategy sessions and the default authentication query flow. You will also learn about External Security Module and how to introduce a custom External Security Module into your framework.
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Introduction to External Security Module
External Security Integration
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Single Sign-On
Resource Bundles and Internationalization
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy SDK |
| Course Duration: | One day |
| Who Should Attend: | Web interface developers, project managers, web application developers, consultants, and ASP, SI, and OEM partners with an application development focus |
| Prerequisites: | MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials MicroStrategy Web SDK: Customization Essentials Advanced Programming Skills in Java, JSP and XML |
MicroStrategy Web SDK: Portal Integration
This two-day course provides an overview of integrating MicroStrategy Web into portals using the MicroStrategy Software Development Kit (SDK). The course covers the portal terminology and concepts; portlet standards; portal architecture; typical portal implementation scenarios; portal integration methods; MicroStrategy portlet deployment, configuration and customization; and single sign-on with portals.
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Introduction to Portal Integration and Architecture
Using MicroStrategy in Portal Environment
Type A Integration
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URL Parameters
Portlet Deployment, Configuration and Customization
Single Sign-On with Portals
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| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy SDK |
| Course Duration: | Two days |
| Who Should Attend: | Web interface developers, project managers, web application developers, consultants, and ASP, SI, and OEM partners with an application development focus |
| Prerequisites: | MicroStrategy Desktop: Reporting Essentials MicroStrategy Web SDK: Customization Essentials Basic Programming Skills for Web, including working knowledge of HTML Familiarity with basics of XML and JSP/ASP.NET is helpful but not required |
MicroStrategy 9.3 Features and Functionality
What’s New in MicroStrategy 9.3
This one-day course provides an overview of the features and functionality available in MicroStrategy Web, MicroStrategy Mobile, MicroStrategy administrative tools, and other MicroStrategy products for MicroStrategy 9.3 (9.3.0). Numerous enhancements have been made to these products in this version. This course covers the most important, high- profile changes. The course assumes that you are already familiar with the basic functionality and terminology associated with MicroStrategy suite of products. Throughout the course, you will gain hands-on practice with new features through a series of exercises.
Topics:
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MicroStrategy Platform Overview MicroStrategy Visual Insight
MicroStrategy Web
MicroStrategy Report Services
MicroStrategy Mobile
MicroStrategy Office
MicroStrategy Data Mining Services
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MicroStrategy Transaction Services
MicroStrategy Distribution Services
MicroStrategy System Manager
MicroStrategy Object Manager
Platform Enhancements
And more! |
| MicroStrategy Products Covered: | MicroStrategy Visual Insight MicroStrategy Web MicroStrategy Report Services MicroStrategy Mobile MicroStrategy Office MicroStrategy Data Mining Services MicroStrategy Transaction Services MicroStrategy Distribution Services MicroStrategy System Manager MicroStrategy Object Manager MicroStrategy Command Manager |
| Course Duration: | One day |
| Who Should Attend: | MicroStrategy Web end users, MicroStrategy Mobile developers, MicroStrategy administrators |
| Prerequisites: | Familiarity with MicroStrategy concepts and terminology |
Global Perennial Education Pass:
The Global Perennial Education Pass (Global PEP) is an annual program that enables subscribers to take any or all of the courses we offer for one flat fee. It's our most cost-effective option for those who anticipate taking multiple MicroStrategy courses. Contact us to sign up for this program.
Regional Classes:
All regional classes begin promptly at 9:00 AM and end at 5:00 PM local time. Distance learning classes run from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM EST (daytime North America), 9:30 to 16:30 CEST (daytime Europe), and 10:00 to 17:00 India Standard Time (daytime Asia Pacific).
Onsite Classes:
Many of our courses can be customized with your data and delivered onsite. Options range from custom certification for clients and partners to instructor-led courses and media-based applications for large numbers of end users. Contact Education Services at education@microstrategy.com or 877-232-7168 for more information on this special offering.
Enrollment:
To secure enrollment in a regional class, MicroStrategy must receive your registration information and the enrollment fee. Registration may be submitted by mail, facsimile or email, but must be in writing. You can download the MicroStrategy Registration Form from this site.
Confirmation:
You'll receive your official confirmation package via email or fax. PEP members who register for courses online should receive an automated confirmation once they register. Details from MicroStrategy Education should follow in 2-3 business days.
Payment:
- MicroStrategy accepts only credit cards, Learning Units, PEP enrollments or checks sent in advance as forms of payment. Payment must be received prior to the start date of class. Enrollments under PEP Contracts that are not yet confirmed by MicroStrategy may require a credit card as a back-up to guarantee enrollment.
- Use of Learning Units is contingent on a sufficient amount of Learning Units left on your company's account at the time of registration and the account must be fully paid. If it is discovered that there is an insufficient amount of Learning Units left, the customer will be asked to remit payment for the difference by credit card or check. The Learning Unit price will apply to the balance due.
- Credit cards are charged after class begins. Your receipt will be scanned and emailed to you.
- Checks should be made out to MicroStrategy Inc. and mailed to:
MicroStrategy Services Corporation
P.O. Box 409671
Atlanta, GA 30384-9671*Please send your registration form to Education via fax or email separately from your check to avoid delays in confirmation.
Cancellation Policy:
Regional, Public Courses
- To avoid the 50% cancellation fee, notification of cancellation must be received at least ten (10) business days prior to the start date of the class. Students canceling within 10 business days of the start date of the class will be charged half of the standard enrollment fee.
- You may reschedule into the same class at a later date (same location only). Rescheduling will not entitle you to a refund or credit on your card; your tuition payment will be held as a credit for the next time you come to class. This policy applies to all courses, regardless of promotions, discounts, annual programs or other Education Agreements.
- No-Show Policy: If a student does not show up for class, the customer thereby forfeits the full tuition fee. A student registered under the PEP program who does not show up for class will be invoiced for the full tuition at list price. PEP privileges may be suspended until restitution is made.
- MicroStrategy Education reserves the right to cancel a program at any time. Students will receive their choice of a full refund or rescheduling. A credit will be placed on file, which must be used within twelve (12) months of original notice of cancellation. If the credit is not used within the time frame outlined above, the participant will forfeit the full tuition fee.
Distance Learning Courses
To avoid a cancellation fee, notification of cancellation must be received in writing at least four (4) business days prior to the class start date. No shows and cancellations of three (3) business days or fewer will be charged $50 per day per class. There is no refund given for course manuals purchased for Distance Learning classes.
Onsite, Private Courses
If an onsite course is cancelled within six to ten business days prior to commencement, a 50% cancellation fee will be charged. If the course is cancelled within five business days or less prior to commencement, a 75% cancellation fee will be charged.