Aligning Dimensions Across Applications

An important benefit that Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud offers is enabling you to compare and align dimensions across multiple applications. If multiple applications that are supposed to have the same dimension information are managed independently of each other, the risk of misalignment between the applications is high.

Misalignment can result from:

• Certain nodes are in one application but not in another

• Nodes with the same name exist in both applications but are not meant for the same purpose. For example the descriptions may be different or the nodes roll up to different parents in the hierarchy.

Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud enables you to compare nodes in hierarchies or viewpoints and resolve differences to align the two applications.

In this example, we are comparing two viewpoints – GL Account and Plan Account – in the Account Maintenance View. We are comparing the nodes in two viewpoints to determine if there are differences that need to be resolved.

Note:

Node type converters are needed to compare nodes of different node types across two viewpoints.