About Profitability and Cost Management Dimensions

Profitability and Cost Management uses dimensions and members created in Oracle Essbase.

The dimensions are imported into Profitability and Cost Management using flat files. The dimensions and members are used to represent many of the structural elements of business applications:

• System dimensions that are reserved for use by Profitability and Cost Management for system requirements (System Dimensions)

• Business dimensions that reflect the business-specific elements of the application, such as departments, accounts, activities, customers, or products (Profitability and Cost Management Business Dimensions)

• Point of View (POV) dimensions that identify a specific point of view or version of the application, such as year, scenario, period, and version; version dimensions enable you to maintain multiple versions of a application and can be used to create alternate, or what-if, scenarios of the application, or different perspectives (Profitability and Cost Management POV Dimensions)

• Attribute dimensions that enable analysis based on the attributes or qualities of dimension members. Attributes describe characteristics of data, such as the size or color of products

• Alias dimensions (optional), used to assign alternate names, descriptions, languages, or other items that help to define dimensions (Profitability and Cost Management Alias Dimensions)

See Dimension Requirements for information about dimensions that must be included in valid Profitability and Cost Management applications.

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You can use Dimension Management to view the dimension-member structure of most types of dimensions within Profitability and Cost Management (Viewing, Creating, and Editing Dimensions with Dimension Management).

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Profitability and Cost Management does not support the loading of metadata by way of a file using Data Management.