Evaluation Quick Start Guide
Evaluation Quick Start Guide
Analytics Enterprise
Document Number: 09460941
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Introduction
Thank you for your interest in MicroStrategy Analytics Enterprise.
Since 1989, MicroStrategy has helped corporations transform their
operational data into actionable information. MicroStrategy, with its
industrial-strength business intelligence, helps organizations improve
business performance by providing easy-to-use technology for monitoring,
reporting, and analyzing all of their enterprise data. With the MicroStrategy
platform, you can analyze and make decisions based upon the data within
your organizations enterprise data warehouse. You can also build analytical
solutions across all areas of your organization's business, including sales,
marketing, operations, financial analysis, customer relationship
management, and supply chain. Its intuitive user interfaces provide
interactive analyses that display richly-formatted information to business
users with the ability to sort, cross tabulate, drill from summarized data into
transactional details, export the results and collaborate with other users,
without the need to know SQL or the physical database structures.
As you work through the evaluation process described in this document, you
learn about the components of the MicroStrategy platform; queries,
reporting, and analysis as well as information delivery and alerting services.
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Evaluation resources
The following resources are available to you to assist with your evaluation of
the MicroStrategy platform:
1 You can access the MicroStrategy Main Menu in the following ways:
From the disk: Insert the disk into your disk drive and wait for the
MicroStrategy Main Menu window to display automatically.
From the download site: Download the files from the MicroStrategy
download site. Locate and run the MicroStrategy.exe file.
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Click View ReadMe File to review the readme files that contain the
most recent information about the products since the printing of this
document.
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The following sections in this Quick Start Guide outline the recommended
steps that will be useful in your evaluation of the MicroStrategy platform.
These steps are as follows:
1 Registering the evaluation software, page 7.
2 Reviewing hardware and software requirements, page 7.
3 Installing and activating the MicroStrategy Platform, page 11.
The license key for the Evaluation Edition expires 30 days from
the time you install MicroStrategy software.
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Hardware requirements
For the evaluation, it is assumed that one to four users are using the system.
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Software requirements
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From the disk: Insert the disk into your disk drive and wait for the
MicroStrategy Main Menu window to display automatically.
From the download site: Download the files from the MicroStrategy
download site. Locate and run the MicroStrategy.exe file.
You need the license key you received upon registering the Evaluation
Edition to install the products. The license key for the Evaluation
Edition expires 30 days from the time you install MicroStrategy
software.
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When you restart the computer where the evaluation software is installed,
the Welcome screen opens. This screen is designed to guide you through the
evaluation process.
Welcome screen appears only once after the software is installed.
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You can access the Welcome screen at any time from the Start menu
by pointing to Programs, then to MicroStrategy Tools, and then
choosing Welcome Screen.
For complete details to install MicroStrategy software, see the
MicroStrategy Installation and Configuration Guide.
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Continue to proceed. You can log in using either the User, Developer, or
Administrator user name. Each login ID grants you a specific level of
access to the MicroStrategy platform.
If you log in as User, you can perform most functions in MicroStrategy;
these functions include creating and executing reports.
If you log in as Developer, you can view objects that are required to
develop reports.
If you use the Administrator login ID, you are granted super user
access, which includes the ability to manipulate schema objects such as
attributes. However, be careful if you log in as Administrator; you bypass
the following tutorial steps and permanently lose any objects you delete.
To follow along with this tutorial, use the User login ID to log in. Leave
the password blank and click OK.
3 The User Homepage opens, where you can learn how to access and
manipulate reports, and create new reports using MicroStrategy
Developer. Follow the recommended steps on the User Homepage.
detailed documentation of each step, refer to Viewing Reports in
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a Developer Application in the Introduction to MicroStrategy:
Evaluation Guide.
1 Ensure that the World Wide Web Publishing service and MicroStrategy
Intelligence Server services are running on your system. For more
information about checking the status of these services, see
Troubleshooting the Evaluation Edition in the Introduction to
MicroStrategy: Evaluation Guide.
2 On the Welcome screen, click View reports in a Web browser. If the
Welcome screen is not open, from the Start menu, point to Programs,
then MicroStrategy Tools, and then choose Welcome Screen.
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1 On the Welcome screen, click View reports on iPhone and iPad. If the
Welcome screen is not open, from the Start menu, point to Programs,
then MicroStrategy Tools, and then choose Welcome Screen.
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With MicroStrategy Mobile, you and other business users receive the same
reports and documents on your BlackBerry smartphones as you do in
MicroStrategy Web, MicroStrategy Office, or MicroStrategy Developer. You
can then analyze the reports and documents on your mobile device by sorting
data, repositioning objects, grouping data by page, and more.
To learn how to use MicroStrategy Mobile, perform the following steps.
To view reports in MicroStrategy Mobile for BlackBerry
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Next steps
If you have completed the steps in the recommended evaluation process, you
have learned quite a bit about the query, reporting, analysis, information
delivery and alerting functionality available through the MicroStrategy
platform.
From here, you can do any of the following things:
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Consulting
MicroStrategy Consulting Services provides proven methods for delivering
leading-edge technology solutions. Offerings include complex security
architecture designs, performance and tuning, project and testing strategies
and recommendations, strategic planning, and more. For a detailed
description of consulting offerings, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/
Services.
International support
MicroStrategy supports several locales. Support for a locale typically includes
native database and operating system support, support for date formats,
numeric formats, currency symbols, and availability of translated interfaces
and certain documentation.
MicroStrategy is certified in homogeneous configurations (where all the
components lie in the same locale) in the following languagesEnglish (US),
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Technical Support
If you have questions about a specific MicroStrategy product, you should:
1 Consult the product guides, Help, and readme files. Locations to access
each are described above.
2 Consult the MicroStrategy Knowledge Base online at https://
resource.microstrategy.com/support.
administrator in your organization may be able to help
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resolve your issues immediately.
3 If the resources listed in the steps above do not provide a solution,
contact MicroStrategy Technical Support directly. To ensure the most
productive relationship with MicroStrategy Technical Support, review the
Policies and Procedures document in your language, posted at http://
www.microstrategy.com/Support/Policies. Refer to the terms of your
purchase agreement to determine the type of support available to you.
MicroStrategy Technical Support can be contacted by your companys
Support Liaison. A Support Liaison is a person whom your company has
designated as a point-of-contact with MicroStrategys support personnel. All
customer inquiries and case communications must come through these
named individuals. Your company may designate two employees to serve as
their Support Liaisons, and can request to change their Support Liaisons two
times per year with prior written notice to MicroStrategy Technical Support.
It is recommended that you designate Support Liaisons who have
MicroStrategy Administrator privileges. This can eliminate security conflicts
and improve case resolution time. When troubleshooting and researching
issues, MicroStrategy Technical Support personnel may make
recommendations that require administrative privileges within
MicroStrategy, or that assume that the designated Support Liaison has a
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Web: https://resource.microstrategy.com/support
EMEA:
Email: [email protected]
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Europe
The Middle East
Africa
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Asia Pacific
Email: [email protected]
Web: https://resource.microstrategy.com/support
Latin America
Email: [email protected]
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Support Liaisons should contact the Technical Support Center from which
they obtained their MicroStrategy software licenses or the Technical Support
Center to which they have been designated.
Personal information:
Case details:
Business/system impact
If this is the Support Liaisons first inquiry, they should also be prepared to
provide the following:
Street address
Phone number
Fax number
Email address
Case number: Please keep a record of the number assigned to each case
logged with MicroStrategy Technical Support, and be ready to provide it
when inquiring about an existing case
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Case description:
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