MicroStrategy 7 Administrator Guide

The possible tasks that MicroStrategy Intelligence Server may need to perform
when processing a job are, in no particular order:
Task
MicroStrategy Intelligence Server
component
C
O
N
C
E
P
T
S
Resolve report definition
Look for a report cache
Look for objects in the metadata
Add user input from a prompt
Generate SQL
Execute SQL against the data
warehouse
Perform analytical processing on
results
Update report cache with new report
results
Look up elements
Send output to the client application
Resolution Server
Report Server
Object Server
Resolution Server
SQL Engine
Query Engine
Analytical Engine
Report Server
Element Server
Message Sender
Job processing flow
Jobs are processed like this:
MicroStrategy Server
1 2
3 4
5
Job processing flow
1. A user makes a request from a client application such as MicroStrategy
Desktop or MicroStrategy Web.
2. The client application sends the request to MicroStrategy Intelligence Server.
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