Introduction to Microstrategy
Introduction to Microstrategy Agenda
What is BI?
Tools used in BI
Business Intelligence software's
What is Microstrategy?
Microstrategy Product Architecture
Programming languages Used
Advantages
Introduction to MicrostrategyBI
Business intelligence is a term commonly associated with data warehousing .
Business intelligence usually refers to the information that is available for the enterprise to make decisions on Data. A data warehousing (or data mart) system is the backend.
With Business Intelligence Tools, various data like customer related, product related, sales related, time related, location related, employee related etc. are gathered and analysed based on which important strategies or rules are formed and goals to achieve their target are set.
Take a guess what's the most common business intelligence tool?
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Tools Used In BI
Microsoft Excel
Excel is best used for business operations reporting and goals tracking.
OLAP tool (Online Analytical Processing )
OLAP tools are usually used by advanced users.
ETL tool (Extract ,transform and load)
ETL Tools are meant to extract, transform and load the data into Data Warehouse for decision making.
Popular ETL tools Like: 1) Informatic 2) Datastage (IBM) 3) Oracle warehouse
Introduction to Microstrategy Metadata Tools
Metadata is data about data and Metadata tools are used for gathering, storing, updating,
and for retrieving the business and technical metadata of an organization.
Data - The actual data that is stored in the database.
In the Below table, the second row, containing information like
001,John , 33, $2000 are known as Data.
Whereas the first row, (i.e) table header containing headings like Employee ID,
Employee Name, Employee Age, Employee Salary are called as
Metadata for the above said data .
Tools used in BI
Emp ID Emp Name Emp Age salary
001 John 33 $2000
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Metadata Tools:
Datamapper MetacenterMeta Data Integration Framework SuperGlue
Tools used in BI
Introduction to MicrostrategyOLAP tool
Before we speak about OLAP tool selection criterion, we must first distinguish between the two types of OLAP tools, MOLAP (Multidimensional OLAP) and ROLAP (Relational OLAP).
1. MOLAP: In this type of OLAP, a cube is aggregated from the relational data source (data warehouse). When user generates a report request, the MOLAP tool can generate the create quickly because all data is already pre-aggregated within the cube.
2. ROLAP: In this type of OLAP, instead of pre-aggregating everything into a cube, the ROLAP engine essentially acts as a smart SQL generator. The ROLAP tool typically comes with a 'Designer' piece, where the data warehouse administrator can specify the relationship between the relational tables, as well as how dimensions, attributes, and hierarchies map to the underlying database tables.
Popular Tools
Cognos
Microsoft Analysis Services
MicroStrategy
Introduction to Microstrategy
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is the industry's most advanced, MicroStrategy Intelligence Server is the industry's most advanced, secure and scalable business intelligence server.secure and scalable business intelligence server.
MicroStrategy is a business intelligence (BI), Enterprise Reporting, and MicroStrategy is a business intelligence (BI), Enterprise Reporting, and OLAP (on-line analytical processing) software OLAP (on-line analytical processing) software
MicroStrategy's software allows reporting and analysis MicroStrategy's software allows reporting and analysis of data stored in a relational database, multidimensional database, or of data stored in a relational database, multidimensional database, or flat data file. flat data file.
MicroStrategy has also supported multidimensional MOLAP processingMicroStrategy has also supported multidimensional MOLAP processing and ROLAP.and ROLAP.
Introduction to Microstrategy Architecture of Microstrategy
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Report Serving(Intelligence server universal, web universal).Report Serving(Intelligence server universal, web universal).
Information Delivery and Alerting (Narrowcast server).Information Delivery and Alerting (Narrowcast server).
Design and Administration (Architect ,Administrator).Design and Administration (Architect ,Administrator).
Integration with other Application (SDK)Integration with other Application (SDK)
Intelligence Server Universal:Intelligence Server Universal: Is the architectural foundation of the Microstrategy.Is the architectural foundation of the Microstrategy.Using centralized metadata Repository, Intelligence server converts reports request into Using centralized metadata Repository, Intelligence server converts reports request into SQL queries for relational database and performs some calculations.SQL queries for relational database and performs some calculations.
Web Universal:Web Universal:
Provides an interactive BI user interface for web browser .Provides an interactive BI user interface for web browser .
It runs on UNIX OSIt runs on UNIX OS
Introduction to Microstrategy Narrowcast Server:
MicroStrategy Narrowcast Server is a proactive information delivery server that distributes personalized business information to users via email, printers, file services, SMS and mobile devices. It creates the ideal environment for true enterprise-class BI by automating monitoring,
reporting and analysis of business performance.
Data feed Data feed Data feed Data feed
DB2
MicroStrategy BI Tool
Display ReportBuild ReportDesign Report
Application server
(Web sphere)
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Programming languages used(Java/J2EE)
Programming Language Used
Introduction to MicrostrategyAdvantages:
MicroStrategy solutions address the needs of these industries
Education Financial services Healthcare Transportation and logistics Electronics Food and beverage Government Insurance Media Biotechnology Telecommunications
1) Continuously Monitor Performance In Real Time (Dashboards,ScoreCards,Portals).
2) Report Detailed Information for Day-to-Day Decision-making (Statement, Business Reports)
3) Analyze Data (Statistical Analysis , Financial Analysis)
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