Creating New Dimensions

Applications that share transactional data often share dimension information as well. Dimensions for newly created applications can be modeled from existing dimensions from other applications managed by Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud.

Financial Cloud diagram to illustrate viewpoints within a view.

For example, let's say you have a General Ledger and a Planning application and manage the respective Accounts dimensions in Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud in an Account Maintenance view. Then you purchase Financial Consolidation and Close and need to create an Accounts dimension for your new Financial Consolidation application.

In Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud, you can use the existing Plan Accounts dimension as a baseline for the new Consolidation Account dimension in the Financial Consolidation application. You create a new dimension in the Account Maintenance view by creating a new viewpoint (Consol Accts). Because this is a new application, you need a new data chain containing the nodes (new node type), relationships (new hierarchy set), and properties for the new Consol Acct dimension.