Overview of Dimensionality in OFSAA

Use dimensions to stratify your business data for processing or reporting purposes. For example, at a minimum, a General Ledger Dimension stratifies General Ledger Systems. This is an organization or Cost Center Dimension, and a Time Dimension. Customer Account-level Data will normally have these same dimensions but are often additionally segmented by dimensions such as Product or Customer. You may wish to construct models using a specialized product dimension or other customized dimensions such as geography, cost pool, transaction, activity, or channel.

Dimensions are comprised of lists of members. For example, the Organizational Unit dimension might be comprised of Branch #1, Branch #2, Branch #3, and so on. Some dimensions can contain tens or even hundreds of thousands of members (for example, a large organizational or customer dimension) while others can contain as few as two members (for example, a simple product-type dimension with values of Fixed and Variable).

The member values or Chart of Accounts for each dimension can be maintained either internally within the OFSAA Infrastructure or externally.