PeopleSoft Cube Manager Preface

This book discusses PeopleSoft Cube Manager.

PeopleSoft Cube Manager

PeopleSoft Cube Manager is a set of PeopleTools pages and processes that you use to create and maintain analytic data stores, also called Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cubes. This book explains the basic concepts of OLAP and the tools that are supported, as well as how to use PeopleSoft PeopleTools to design analytic components and build and troubleshoot cubes.

Note. The concepts of Outlines, Aggregate Data, Point of View (POV), Block Storage, and Aggregate Storage used in PeopleSoft Cube Manager are the same concepts used in Oracle Hyperion. For more information, see the documentation of Oracle Hyperion product.

PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library

A companion PeopleBook called PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library contains general information, including:

• Understanding the PeopleSoft online library and related documentation.

• How to send PeopleSoft documentation comments and suggestions to Oracle.

• How to access hosted PeopleBooks, downloadable HTML PeopleBooks, and downloadable PDF PeopleBooks as well as documentation updates.

• Understanding PeopleBook structure.

• Typographical conventions and visual cues used in PeopleBooks.

• ISO country codes and currency codes.

• PeopleBooks that are common across multiple applications.

• Common elements used in PeopleBooks.

• Navigating the PeopleBooks interface and searching the PeopleSoft online library.

• Displaying and printing screen shots and graphics in PeopleBooks.

• How to manage the locally installed PeopleSoft online library, including web site folders.

• Understanding documentation integration and how to integrate customized documentation into the library.

• Application abbreviations found in application fields.

You can find PeopleBooks and the PeopleSoft Online Library in the online PeopleBooks Library for your PeopleTools release.