Overview of Subject Areas and Predefined Analyses

The BI repository defines the columns that are available for you to include in analyses and where data for each column comes from.

The repository is organized into subject areas which contain folders with columns. Each subject area has one fact folder and a number of dimension folders. The dimension folders contain attribute and hierarchical columns and are joined to the fact folder within a subject area. For example, if your analysis has Currency attribute from a dimension folder, you see a currency column in the results. If you also add the Total fact, then your analysis includes only those records that have both currency and total amount columns populated.

This chapter provides detailed information about:

• The subject areas that can be used to create real-time analyses and dashboards

• Dimensions that you can use for analyses

• Pre-defined analytics

• Dashboards