Dimensions are high-level categories that you can use to logically group related measure data. Dimensions contain members that are items that can be grouped by the dimension. The hierarchies you form with dimensions and members are called custom dimensional outlines.
Create submembers as required. For example, you could create submembers to represent individual manufacturing plants in Cincinnati, Scottsdale, Malaysia, and Poland in the Manufacturing Plants member as shown below.
Dimensional outlines enable you to perform these tasks:
Create groups that you can use to organize and analyze data by creating dimension that contain lower-level items called members.
Generate dimensional measures that gather data where dimensions and members intersect. This enables you to collect data using multiple data points, such as Sales by Office.
Performance Scorecard automatically creates an internal system dimensional outline (system map) that replicates the Strategy Trees, Accountability maps, and Employees that you create. This enables you to use strategy and accountability structures as measure templates from which to generate dimensional measures. See System Dimensions and System Maps.
You can use result and target values in a Essbase database.