A logical organization of multidimensional data. The edges of the cube contain dimension members and the body of the cube contains measure values. For example, sales data can be organized into a cube, whose edges contain members from the Time, Product, and Customer dimensions and whose body contains values from the Volume Sales and Dollar Sales measures.
Although there is no limit to the number of edges on a cube, data is often organized for display purposes along three edges, which are referred to as the row edge, column edge, and page edge. A single dimension or multiple dimensions can be placed on an edge. For example, sales data might be displayed with Product and Channel on the row edge, Time on the column edge, and Customer on the page edge.