MicroStrategy Architect: Project & Schema Development [2025]

Learn to design schemas, define facts & attributes and build BI projects in MicroStrategy Workstation & Developer

What you'll learn
- Create and manage schema objects: facts, attributes, hierarchies
- Build and configure BI projects in MicroStrategy Workstation & MicroStrategy Developer
- Design and maintain the semantic layer that connects the warehouse to business users
- Use the MicroStrategy Warehouse Catalog
- Apply your skills in a hands-on project

Requirements
- Basic understanding of databases (tables, joins, primary keys)
- Familiarity with SQL is helpful, but not required
- No prior MicroStrategy Architect experience needed — the course starts from scratch
- Access to a MicroStrategy environment is helpful but not mandatory (ideas are provided in the course)

Description
Behind every successful MicroStrategy project stands an Architect. While developers and analysts create dashboards and reports, it is the Architect who designs thefoundation that makes everything possible: the schema.

A well-designed schema ensures that data is consistent, business rules are enforced, and insights are trusted across the entire organization. Without it, BI projects quickly collapse into fragmented reports and endless “data disputes.” That’s whyMicroStrategy Architects are among the most valuable and hardest-to-find professionals in the BI world.

This course exists to help you step into that role.

You will learn how to think like an Architect — how to bridge the gap between raw warehouse data and the semantic layer that powers enterprise reporting. You will discover how MicroStrategy organizes facts, attributes, hierarchies, and transformations into a coherent schema, and why this layer is the single most important part of any MicroStrategy project.

But this is not just theory. The course is fullyhands-on with the latest MicroStrategy version, showing you how to set up projects in Workstation and Developer, register tables, create schema objects, validate designs, and optimize performance. And because Architects don’t just build objects, but deliversolutions to business problems, you will also work through acomplete Sales Analytics projectthat simulates the real challenges you’ll face in practice.

By the end of this course, you won’t just know how to use MicroStrategy Architect. You will understand why these skills are rare, why organizations struggle without them, and howyou can position yourself as a highly valuable BI professionalwith expertise that few others have.

If you want to stand out in the BI job market and learn the skills that truly differentiate beginners from experts, this course is your path forward.

Who this course is for:
- BI Developers & Analysts who want to move into schema design
- Data Modelers & Engineers interested in building semantic layers for reporting
- Business Intelligence Professionals aiming to expand their MicroStrategy expertise
- Anyone preparing for a career as a MicroStrategy Architect, one of the most valuable and rare BI roles
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