8.1.2.1 Subject Area

Subject Area (SA) is defined as a pre-configured dataset of all fact entities (including their attributes) and their related dimension entities that are relevant to a given functional area. For Eg: Accounts subject area enables user to access all results data for account granularity, including the relevant dimensions like product type, party type, account rating, etc. Subject Areas will help users to access specific list of entities and attributes needed for a particular functional area so they can easily view data within that domain. Most subject areas combine entities within same grain, but some can have more than 1 granularity as well. For Eg: Account subject area has most entities of account grain, but does have some other granularities like account-rating, account-address grain. For optimum data extraction, it is very helpful for a user to go through Subject Area Granularity before extracting data within a given subject area.