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About Domain Values

The Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse foundation comprises a data model that accommodates data from disparate source systems. Data is sourced from operational systems and systematically molded into a source-independent format. After the data is source independent, it can then be used to create key metrics for analytic reporting, so that metric calculations are not source dependent. This clear separation allows you to swap source systems or integrate additional source systems without having to reconfigure the metric calculations to accommodate each source system's requirements.

One method for transforming source data into a source-independent format is to convert the source-supplied values to domain values. Domain values are a set of distinct values used to calculate prepackaged metrics. These values are provided by the Siebel Customer-Centric Enterprise Warehouse to allow you to create metric calculations independent of source system values.