Designing Reports

Understanding Data Evaluation Order and Distributing Reports to Users

A report is a MicroStrategy object that represents a request for a specific set of formatted data from the data warehouse. Reports are the focus and goal of business intelligence. They allow users to gather business insight through data analysis.

The different parts of a report include:

• Attributes and facts from the warehouse
• Filters that determine how much data is used to generate the report
• Metrics that perform calculations on the facts

This section builds on the information in the Basic Reporting Help. This section focuses on the complex interaction of various report features, and their potential impact on each other and on the final results, during report execution.