Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy Desktop interface

Let's run the Desktop application for the first time by clicking on it:

From this moment we can start to build a new dashboard using one of the following options:

• Add new data by acquiring external data from flat files, relational databases, or any other data source
• Add datasets from a server, for example, connect to an existing MicroStrategy Intelligence Server and choose grid objects
• Browse objects on the server: choose attributes, metrics, and so on, in order to build dashboards

Let's try to build our first visualization using a Microsoft spreadsheet with data:

1. Click on Add New Data.
2. Choose File from Disk.

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