Friday, May 11, 2012

Essbase Terminology..

Data and Metadata

The above depicts that the actual sales for TV in January in India was 5000


As defined, All Essbase database development begins with creating a database outline.
The Outline defines the relationships between members, Organizes data in the database and Defines the consolidations and mathematical relationships between items.

And in an application, the Dimensions are the structural elements which describe and hold data.

Below you can see a typical Outline, the Dimensions and its members.


 Sample Dimensions are like Account, Period and Market:



Below image depicts the Hierarchy and the nomenclature used to call the members:



The Generations and Levels in the Outline:


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