Agenda : Introduction to Enterprise Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy
This one-day, hands-on introductory course discusses enterprise BI architecture, demonstrates business user interactivity, details BI application development, and covers BI application administration. Students will spend about one-half of the class exploring MicroStrategy software with hands-on, instructor-driven exercises.
AGENDA SCHEDULE:**

Registration: 8:30AM–9:00AM
Morning Session: 9:00AM–12:30PM
Lunch: 12:30PM–1:30PM
Afternoon Session: 1:30PM–5:00PM |
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The class starts with the business user experience in the morning and finishes with the BI developer, architect, and administrator experience in the afternoon. A complimentary lunch will be served.
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A synopsis of the one-day curriculum is below:
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| MORNING SESSION: An Intuitive, and Interactive Experience for Users and Rapid BI Application Development |
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Understanding the role of Enterprise BI within an organization |
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Learning about enterprise-caliber BI architecture |
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Discovering scorecards, dashboards, operational reports, and alerts |
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Interacting with data by slicing-and-dicing, pivoting, exporting, and more |
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Investigating by drilling anywhere within the database |
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Sharing critical information with your colleagues immediately |
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Creating your own analytical reports and dashboards intuitively |
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Defining key business terms and their relationships |
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Creating an application from scratch |
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Building business metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs), data filters, prompts, thresholds, and reports |
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| AFTERNOON SESSION:
Analytics, Lowest Total Cost of Ownership, and Data Visualizations |
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Increasing the use of analytics within an organization to drive better business decisions |
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Performing advanced analysis with Data Mining and Predictive Analysis functions |
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Examining an object-oriented metadata with reusable report building blocks |
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Establishing enterprise-wide security |
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Managing enterprise BI applications |
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Enhancing comprehension using data visualizations |
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Incorporating advanced visualizations within your dashboards |
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