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MicroStrategy course matrix MICROSTRATEGY 9 MICROSTRATEGY 10 ANALYST 9.101: Developer: Reporting Essentials 2 DAYS 9.102: Web for Reporters and Analysts 2 DAYS 9.103: Web for Professionals 2 DAY 9.104: Visual Insight Essentials 1 DAY 9.105: Office Essentials 1 DAY 9.106: Mobile App for Developers 2 DAYS 9.201: Architect: Project Design Essentials 2 DAYS 9.202: Advanced Project Design 1 DAY 9.203: Advanced Data Warehousing 2 DAYS 9.204: Advanced Reporting 3 DAYS 9.205: Report Services: Documents and Dashboards 2 DAYS 9.206: Data Mining and Advanced Analytics 2 DAYS 9.207: Engine Essentials 2 DAYS 9.208: Freeform SQL Essentials 1 DAY 9.209: Transaction Services for Mobile App Developers 2 DAYS 10.100: What s New in MicroStrategy 10 10.101: Overview of Enterprise Analytics 2 DAYS 10.102: Reporting and Visualizations 2 DAYS 10.103: Overview of Enterprise Mobile 2 DAYS 10.201: Project Architecting 3 DAYS 10.202: Advanced Analytics 2 DAYS 10.203: Advanced Documents and Reports 2 DAYS 10.204: Data Mining and Predictive Analytics 2 DAYS 10.205: Advanced Mobile Application Design 2 DAYS DEVELOPER 9.301: Web SDK: Customizing Essentials 2 DAYS 10.301: SDK for Customizing Analytical Applications 2 DAYS 9.302: Web SDK: Customizing Security 1 DAY 10.302: Portal Integration using SDK 1 DAY 9.303: Web SDK: Portal Integration 1 DAY 10.303: Customizing Mobile Applications with SDK 2 DAYS ADMINISTRATOR 9.401: Administration Configuration and Security 3 DAYS 10.401: Administration for Enterprise Analytics 3 DAYS 9.402: Administration Application Management 2 DAYS 10.402: Administration for Secure Cloud 3 DAYS 9.403: Administration for Mobility 2 DAYS 10.403: Administration for Enterprise Mobility 1 DAY COURSE LEGEND VERSION NUMBER: 9 or 10 COURSE NUMBER V. ZYY Z = COURSE LEVEL 1 Basic Analyst Level 2 Advanced Analyst Level 3 Developer Level 4 Administrator Level Analyst Design and build applications on the MicroStrategy platform without coding skills Developer Design and build applications on the MicroStrategy platform using coding skills Administrator Deploy, administer, tune and monitor applications on the MicroStrategy platform 3 microstrategy.com/education
MicroStrategy 9 Role: Analyst Course title: Developer: Reporting Essentials 2 DAYS Course number: 9.101 Prior Knowledge: None Description: Learn the foundations of the MicroStrategy analytical architecture. Develop reports, filters, metrics, and prompts using MicroStrategy Developer interface for core reporting needs. Drill, sort, subtotal, and modify in-memory data for optimized report views and analytical comprehension. Course Name: Web for Reporters and Analysts 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.102 Prior Knowledge: None Description: Perform basic and advanced analysis on reports and documents using MicroStrategy Web. Practice executing, manipulating, formatting reports and documents as well as creating reports with prompts and guided wizards. Course Name: Web for Professionals 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.103 Prior Knowledge: Web for Reporters and Analysts Description: Develop reports, filters, prompts, and metrics in MicroStrategy Web to analyze data and publish reports to other users. Determine how to manipulate existing reports, define custom formatting, and linking between multiple reports. Course Name: Visual Insight Essentials 1 DAY Course Number: 9.104 Prior Knowledge: None Description: Create dashboards in Visual Insight to explore data and discover trends and anomalies. Import data to create complex visualizations, define additional metrics, and share results. Course Name: Office Essentials 1 DAY Course Number: 9.105 Prior Knowledge: None Description: Execute MicroStrategy reports within Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Understand how to manipulate reports and dashboards and incorporate pivot tables and pivot charts. 4 microstrategy.com/education
Course Name: Mobile for App Developers 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.106 Prior Knowledge: Report Services: Documents and Dashboards Description: Create and manage mobile applications in MicroStrategy and deploy them to end users. Create and modify Report Services Documents to build once and deploy to mobile devices. Course Name: Project Design Essentials 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.201 Prior Knowledge: Developer- Reporting Essentials Description: Architect a MicroStrategy project and metadata by developing a physical schema, map attributes, facts, and hierarchies to existing data warehouse tables. (2 days) Course Name: Advanced Project Design 1 DAY Course Number: 9.202 Prior Knowledge: Project Design Essentials Description: Extend the architecture of a MicroStrategy project by creating aggregate fact tables, using multiple data sources, and defining advanced schema objects. Course Name: Advanced Data Warehousing 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.203 Prior Knowledge: Advanced Project Design Description: Examine how to manage complex data warehouse schemas, model different types of attribute relationships, and design the schema for optimal performance. Also, discuss how to resolve some common data modeling issues. Course Name: Advanced Reporting 3 DAYS Course Number: 9.204 Prior Knowledge: Reporting Essentials Description: Build complex reports by creating advanced metrics and filters, defining Intelligent Cubes, and modifying report data options. Course Name: Report Services: Documents and Dashboards 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.205 Prior Knowledge: Web for Professionals Description: Create enterprise documents and interactive dashboards with MicroStrategy Report Services. Learn to add interactive features to documents and dashboards, such as widgets, selectors, links and panel views. 5 microstrategy.com/education
Course Name: Data Mining and Advanced Analytics 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.206 Prior Knowledge: Developer: Advanced Reporting Description: Discover best practices for developing advanced metrics and data mining. Develop predictive models using MicroStrategy, or import models from third-party data mining vendors. Course Name: Engine Essentials 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.207 Prior Knowledge: Advanced Reporting Description: Understand how the MicroStrategy Engine develops Structured Query Language (SQL) to gather data in a variety of reporting scenarios. Learn methods for tuning and optimizing report performance using Very Large Database (VLDB) properties. Course Name: Freeform SQL Essentials 1 DAY Course Number: 9.208 Prior Knowledge: SQL, Project Design Essentials Description: Create reports in MicroStrategy Developer by composing your own queries. Understand how to configure a connection to a SQL database instance, implement security features, and access data from non-relational sources. Course Name: Transaction Services for Mobile App and Dashboard Developers 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.209 Prior Knowledge: Freeform SQL and Report Services: Documents and Dashboards Description: Leverage MicroStrategy Transaction Services within dashboards and mobile apps to allow users to insert data into a transactional database. Explore mobile-specific transactional features and freeform queries to customize the transactional interface. Role: Developer Course Name: Web SDK: Customization Essentials 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.301 Prior Knowledge: Web for Reporters and Analysts Description: Customize the MicroStrategy Web interface to modify page layouts, change report displays, and add custom styles. Understand how to use SDK to edit configuration files and find additional customization examples in the MicroStrategy Developer Library. 6 microstrategy.com/education
Course Name: Web SDK: Customizing Security 1 DAY Course Number: 9.302 Prior Knowledge: Web SDK: Customizations Essentials Description: Learn the default authentication query flow of MicroStrategy Web, and discover how to enhance the login experience using the External Security Module plugin. Understand how to implement Single Sign-On to provide a seamless login experience. Course Name: Web SDK: Portal Integration 1 DAY Course Number: 9.303 Prior Knowledge: Web SDK: Customization Essentials Description: Understand how to integrate MicroStrategy Web into portals such as Microsoft SharePoint, IBM WebSphere, and Oracle WebLogic using SDK. Learn how to use Single Sign-On within portals to create a seamless user experience. Role: Administrator Course Name: Administration- Configuration and Security 3 DAYS Course Number: 9.401 Prior Knowledge: Developer: Reporting Essentials Description: Learn the MicroStrategy architecture, connectivity setup, and administration procedures to manage users, groups, and define the authentication methods for projects. Learn the administrative tasks for MicroStrategy Web, the different layers of security in the MicroStrategy environment, performance optimizations and distribution services. Course Name: Administration- Application Management 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.402 Prior Knowledge: Developer: Reporting Essentials Description: Manage the application life cycle using tools such as Object Manager, Project Merge, Command Manager, System Manager, Enterprise Manager, and Health Center. Learn how to migrate objects between projects, create scripts and workflows to automate tasks, and resolve technical issues Course Name: Administration for Mobility 2 DAYS Course Number: 9.403 Prior Knowledge: None Description: Learn to manage mobile users and deploy mobile apps across the enterprise. Understand how to improve mobile app performance and security, and utilize monitoring tools to examine performance over time. 7 microstrategy.com/education
MicroStrategy 10 All Roles Course Name: What s New in MicroStrategy 10 2 DAYS Course Number: 10.100 Prior knowledge: Hands on experience with MicroStrategy 9 Description: Upgrade your knowledge from MicroStrategy 9 to version 10 through this two day class focusing on new capabilities for the Analyst, Developer, and Administrator. Analysts and Developers will learn about enhanced reporting and visualizations capabilities in Web, Desktop, Mobile, and Transaction Services. Administrators will discover expanded feature sets to help tackle big data, improve performance, and have comprehensive monitoring through the new Operations Manager. Role: Analyst Course Name: Overview of Enterprise Analytics 2 DAYS Course Number: 10.101 Prior knowledge: None needed but recommend attending free Introduction to Enterprise Analytics seminar Description: Build a basic analytics application through hands on exercises starting with the basic building components of an analytics architecture through development, deployment, and simple administrative functions. This course will cover the fundamentals of enterprise analytics and build the knowledge base necessary to tackle the more advanced courses offered for analysts, developers, and administrators. The majority of this course will be hands-on, in an enterprise analytics Secure Cloud environment. Course Name: Reporting and Visualizations 2 DAYS Course Number: 10.102 Prior knowledge: Overview of Enterprise Analytics Description: Create reports, filters, metrics, prompts, and custom groups, as well as, transform datasets into appealing, insightful Visual Insight (VI) dashboards through the MicroStrategy Web or Desktop interfaces. 8 microstrategy.com/education
Course Name: Overview of Enterprise Mobile 2 DAYS Course Number: 10.103 Prior Knowledge: Overview of Enterprise Analytics Description: Build basic enterprise mobile applications using MicroStrategy tools. This course will cover the fundamentals of enterprise mobile and build the knowledge base necessary to tackle the more advanced courses offered for analysts, developers, and administrators. The majority of this course will be hands-on and attendees will perform basic mobile application design, development, and deployment. Course Name: Project Architecting 3 DAYS Course Number: 10.201 Prior knowledge: Overview of Enterprise Analytics Description: Create and maintain the foundation of an enterprise analytics application by developing a physical schema and logical model from single, multiple, or heterogeneous data sources. Develop core objects of the reporting infrastructure such as attributes, facts, and hierarchies and mappings to data warehouse tables. Leverage advanced options to build the infrastructure for efficiency and performance. Course Name: Advanced Analytics 2 DAYS Course Number: 10.202 Prior knowledge: Overview of Enterprise Analytics Description: Develop advanced metrics, filters, custom groups and consolidations for analytical reports. The majority of this course will be hands-on using MicroStrategy Developer, in a Secure Cloud analytics environment. Course Name: Advanced Documents and Reports 2 DAYS Course Number: 10.203 Prior knowledge: Overview of Enterprise Analytics Description: Build perfectly formatted report documents and enterprise dashboards most commonly used for financial statements, performance scorecards, and executive reporting applications. Course Name: Data Mining and Predictive Analytics 2 DAYS Course Number: 10.204 Prior knowledge: Advanced Analytics Description: Develop predictive models and reports using MicroStrategy Developer leveraging native algorithms or by importing models from third party data mining vendors like R and PMML. Participants will also learn data mining best practices. 9 microstrategy.com/education
Course Name: Advanced Mobile Application Design 2 DAYS Course Number: 10.205 Prior knowledge: Overview of Enterprise Mobile Description: Create advanced mobile applications with write-back enabled functionality (transactions) for extended business value. Build workflows with stored procedures, input dependent text, and transactional SQL. Role: Developer Course Name: SDK for Customizing Analytical Applications 2 DAYS Course Number: 10.301 Prior knowledge: Overview of Enterprise Analytics & intermediate experience with Java, HTML, CSS, and RESTful APIs Description: Learn MicroStrategy Web APIs & SDKs and have the ability create custom analytics applications and integrate analytics into any existing business application. We recommend that attendees take the Overview of Enterprise Analytics course or be intimately familiar with the topics covered in that course before registering for this advanced session. Course Name: Portal Integration using SDK 1 DAY Course Number: 10.302 Prior knowledge: SDK for customizing analytical applications and familiarity with Web standards such as XML is recommended Description: Integrate MicroStrategy Web into portals such as Microsoft SharePoint, IBM WebSphere, and Oracle WebLogic using the Web SDK. Also learn how to extend Single Sign-On within portals to create a seamless user experience. Course Name: Customizing Mobile Applications with SDK 2 DAYS Course Number: 10.303 Prior knowledge: Overview of Enterprise Mobile and SDK for Customizing Analytical Applications. Familiarity with ios Environment and Objective-C and Java Programming is beneficial. Description: Develop a deep understanding of MicroStrategy Mobile APIs & SDKs and learn to create custom mobile applications and mobilize any existing business application. 10 microstrategy.com/education
Role: Administrator Course Name: Administration for Enterprise Analytics 3 DAYS Course Number: 10.401 Prior knowledge: Overview of Enterprise Analytics Description: Deploy, manage and secure a MicroStrategy Enterprise Analytics environment leveraging administration tools. Optimize, automate, and monitor the MicroStrategy environment using the tool administration options. Course Name: Administration for Secure Cloud 3 DAYS Course Number: 10.402 Prior knowledge: Overview of Enterprise Analytics Description: Learn the various tasks involved in administering a MicroStrategy Secure Cloud environment including how to manage user security and configure the environment for optimal performance and security. Course Name: Administration for Enterprise Mobility 1 DAY Course Number: 10.403 Prior knowledge: Analytics Administration Description: Gain practical knowledge necessary to deploy, configure, manage, and optimize the performance of mobile applications either via the cloud or on-premise. 11 microstrategy.com/education
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