MicroStrategy for Architects

• Basic knowledge of SQL and understanding of business intelligence (BI) concepts

Audience

• MicroStrategy architects
• BI developers
• Analysts

MicroStrategy is a business intelligence (BI) platform that provides tools for creating visualizations, interactive dashboards, automated reports, etc. It offers a suite of development tools, such as SDKs, to customize and integrate MicroStrategy analytics with other applications.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner to advanced-level MicroStrategy architects who wish to develop schemas, change management, and use modeling tools to manage the development cycle of MicroStrategy apps.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Fully understand the concepts and architecture of data warehousing.
• Understand how to use analytics, desktop objects, and schemas.
• Build and maintain MicroStrategy projects.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Introduction

• Overview of MicroStrategy Architecture

Working with Schema Objects

• Creating attributes
• Understanding and creating facts
• Using logical tables
• Understanding mapping and using logical sizes
• Using transformations

Data Warehousing Concepts and Relationships

• Understanding star and snowflake schema
• Understanding data warehousing concepts
• Understanding one-to-one relationships
• Understanding one-to-many relationships
• Understanding many-to-many relationships
• Understanding joint child relationships
• User hierarchies
• Logical models

Advanced Concepts

• Using compound keys
• Ragged, split, and recursive hierarchy
• Slowly changing dimensions
• Using attribute roles and table aliases
• Creating connections

Summary and Next Steps