Define the System Requirements

You most likely have certain expectations or requirements that the system must meet for it to be considered a success. For example, you may have a set of requirements similar to one of these scenarios:

• Global Web-based deployment for 400 users with 15-second response time for prompted reports and the ability to subscribe to personalized weekly sales reports.
• Internal deployment for 200 market research analysts accessing an enterprise data warehouse on a completely ad hoc basis.
• Web-based deployment for 1,500 remote users with access to pre-defined daily sales and inventory reports with 5-second response time.

These scenarios share common requirements that can help you define your own expectations for the system, such as the following:

• You may require that the system be able to handle a certain number of concurrent users logged in, or a certain number of active users running reports and otherwise interacting with the system.
• You may require a certain level of performance, such as report results returning to the users within a certain time, or that the results of report manipulation happen quickly, or that a certain number of reports can be run within an hour or within a day.
• You may require that users have access to certain features, such as scheduling a report for later execution, or sending a report to someone else via email, or that your users will be able to access their reports online through MicroStrategy Web.
• You may require that certain functionality be available in the system, such as allowing report flexibility so users can run ad hoc, predefined, prompted, page-by, or Intelligent Cube reports.