Discovering Business Intelligence Using MicroStrategy 9 -- Table of Contents -- Discovering Business Intelligence Using MicroStrategy 9 -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Instant Updates on New Packt Books -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Downloading the example code -- Downloading the color images of this book -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. The Value Proposition of MicroStrategy -- MicroStrategy Business Intelligence suite -- Enterprise reporting -- Scorecards and dashboards -- Advanced and predictive analytics -- Closed-loop BI -- High-performance BI -- Big Data -- Summary -- 2. Mapping Typical Business Needs -- Understanding the business needs -- Summary -- 3. Reporting - from Excel to Intelligent Data -- Visualization objects - graphs and grids -- Designing and formatting the reports -- Analyze data -- Advanced metrics and attributes -- Thresholds -- Drill down -- Benefits of drill down -- Filters and slices -- Advanced options for filters -- Finding the values -- Including and excluding data -- Showing the total value of the results -- Sorting data -- Ranking -- Summary -- 4. Scorecards and Dashboards - Information Visualization -- Scorecards versus dashboards -- How to design a scorecard or dashboard -- MicroStrategy interface - panels, layouts, and visualizations -- Features -- Usability best practices -- Visualization objects -- Visualization types -- Advanced configurations -- Using filters -- Using visualization objects as a filter -- Scorecard design and construction -- Foundation -- Metrics -- Visualization objects -- Building a scorecard -- Foundation -- Metrics.

Visualization objects -- Dashboard building process -- Summary -- 5. Sharing Your BI Reports and Dashboards -- Reaching your audience -- Main menu -- The Share button -- E-mail sharing -- Portable dashboard -- Sharing on the social media - Facebook and Twitter -- The Facebook option -- The Twitter option -- More Share Visualization options via the Web or user blogs -- Unshare the report -- Mobile devices -- Summary -- 6. MicroStrategy and the Cloud -- The MicroStrategy Cloud portfolio -- Personal -- Personal edition -- Express -- Express edition -- Platform -- Express edition in action -- Data sources -- Security -- Applying security -- Personalize -- Deliveries -- Refresh data -- Summary -- 7. BI Reports at Your Hands -- The MicroStrategy Mobile BI client solution setup -- MicroStrategy Mobile usability -- The offline mode -- Summary -- A. MicroStrategy Express -- Registering the Cloud service -- Activating your account -- B. Visualization -- Visualization object's properties -- Visualization object's options -- Index.