Preface

Founded in 1989, MicroStrategy has been consistently recognized by Gartner as a business intelligence and analytics leader in technology. For almost 30 years, companies and organizations all over the world have trusted MicroStrategy to provide them with one of the best analytics, reporting, and mobile platforms. Nevertheless, the MicroStrategy platform can be daunting at first sight. The amount of concepts and information about MicroStrategy, combined with so many advanced features, a steep learning curve, costly courses, and limited literature, could discourage almost anyone. Moreover, the few books in the market are focused on advanced features and written for an audience with some degree of experience in business intelligence and reporting applications.

This book's objective is to help users and developers take the first step toward learning MicroStrategy by providing a good, solid foundation in a format that is easy to read and understand. The base concepts and skills learned by completing this book will aid the audience in moving to the next level in their knowledge of MicroStrategy.