Understanding the business needs

Let's assume for a moment that you are the commercial director of a retail chain with a massive growth during the last two years, and we need to identify our top five / bottom five stores in terms of revenue, cash flow, and sales representative's rotation, and totalize the profit, operative and net income, and most importantly, determine what is the rationale for identifying the top and bottom performers.

You need this information as soon as possible as your Regional VP is asking for those reports, and you can't wait for your IT fellows or consultants to deliver the reports because your institutional BI platform is under construction or definition, and you do not have any platform in your company for BI or is already in production but requires several processes, documents, testing, and validation in order to meet your requirement.

The business need is already defined, the question to answer is set by your Regional VP, and you have already enabled the MicroStrategy...