Mastering Business Intelligence with MicroStrategy

Security design

Usually, before starting doing anything hands-on, we should collect requirements from the whole organization in order to build a matrix of user access. Moreover, we should specify what kind of permissions are granted to particular groups and users. The easiest and most transparent way is to design security according to organizational structure, that is, each department has one folder with its name in shared folders. In addition, we can create a name folder under the department folder. We recommend denying delete access in order to save content.

Let's imagine that we have just started to implement BI and the first users come from the following departments:

• Business Intelligence
• Sales
• Product
• Finance

Let's create these folders in Public ...