MSTR Architect
Project Design Essentials
Course Contents:
Basic and Advanced
Courses Contents
(Standard course contents, can be customized as per requirements)
Microstrategy Architect: Project Design Essentials
This two-day course provides students with an overview of the project design process, from designing the
logical data model and physical schema for the data warehouse to creating a project in MicroStrategy
Architect.
Students first learn about the role of MicroStrategy Architect in supporting various project functions. Next,
students discover ways to design a logical data model and physical schema in preparation for creating a
MicroStrategy project. Finally, students learn about the project creation process, including how to work with
tables, facts, attributes, and user hierarchies to create a fully-functioning MicroStrategy project.
Throughout this course, students get hands-on practice with designing and creating MicroStrategy projects
via a series of exercises.
Topics:
Introduction to MicroStrategy Architect
Overview of MicroStrategy Architect
Roles of MicroStrategy Architect
Overview of the project design process
Working with tables
What is a Project table?
Adding tables to Project
Using the layers for Project tables
Designing the logical data model
Introduction to logical data modeling
Logical data model components
Creating a logical data model
Working with facts
What is a fact?
Types of facts
Creating and modifying facts
Designing the data warehouse schema
Introduction to physical schemas
Physical schema components
Schema types
Creating a data warehouse schema
Working with attributes
What is an attribute?
What is an attribute form?
Types of attributes
Creating and modifying attribute forms
What is the system hierarchy?
Creating a project in MicroStrategy Architect
Overview of project creation
Project creation interfaces
Working with user hierarchies
What is a user hierarchy?
Creating user hierarchies
Introduction to the Architect graphical interface
Introduction to Architect
Overview of Architect components and
settings
Automatic schema recognition
Overview of automatic schema recognition
Using automatic schema recognition
MicroStrategy Products Covered:
MicroStrategy Architect
Course Duration:
Two days
Who Should Attend:
Project architects and anyone else with an interest
in designing and creating projects with
MicroStrategy
Prerequisites:
Desktop: Reporting Essentials
Microstrategy Architect: Advanced Project Design
This one-day course covers advanced features available to project designers.
First, students learn how to manage project data sources using primary and secondary database instances as
well as how to maintain project schema with the Architect graphical interface. Students also learn how to
create aggregate tables using data marts, as well as how to use MicroStrategy MultiSource Option to
configure projects to access heterogeneous data sources.
Finally, students learn about fact level extensions, transformations, and partition mappings.
Students get hands-on practice during the course through exercises.
Topics:
Introduction to advanced project design
Review of the project design process
Review of schema objects
Using the Fact Editor
Maintaining project schema
Review of database instances
Maintaining your warehouse
Aggregation awareness
Data marts
Fact level extensions
Overview of fact level extensions
Degrading fact levels
Extending fact levels
Disallowing fact levels
Transformations
What is a transformation?
Creating and using transformations
Transformation examples
Using MultiSource Option
Introduction to MultiSource Option
Associating tables to database instances
Creating objects for multisource reports
Creating a multisource report
Partitioning
Introduction to partitioning concepts
Warehouse partition mapping
Metadata partition mapping
MicroStrategy Products Covered:
MicroStrategy Desktop and MicroStrategy Architect
Course Duration:
One Day
Who Should Attend:
MicroStrategy project architects, along with anyone
who has an interest in designing and creating
projects with MicroStrategy Architect
Prerequisites:
Basic SQL knowledge
Desktop: Reporting Essentials
Architect: Project Design Essentials
