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Introduction

Business Intelligence (BI) comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis of business information.

BI technologies can handle large amounts of structured and sometimes unstructured data to help identify, develop and otherwise create new strategic business opportunities. They aim to allow for the easy interpretation of these big data. Identifying new opportunities and implementing an effective strategy based on insights can provide businesses with a competitive market advantage and long-term stability.

OFBiz collects vast amounts of data from transactions in the various domains. This page (and child pages) intend to explain how OFBiz supports BI.

The OFBiz BI concept and its implementation through the BI component are based on the book 'Data Warehouse Toolkit' by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross.

For more information on Business Intelligence have a look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence

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Facts and Dimensions

Fact tables (aka facts) stores store the performance measurements resulting from the organisation's business process events. Dimension tables (aka dimensions) contain the textual contacts context associated with a business process measurement event (captured in a fact) and describe the 'who, what, where, when, how and why'.

In the sections below we describe how the facts and dimension per business domain

Sales Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	SalesInvoiceFact	SalesOrderFact	AssetUtilisation
Asset	assetDimId	asset			Y
Account	accountDimId	account	Y	Y	Y
Brand	brandDimId	brand	Y	Y
Carrier	carrierDimId	carrier
Catalog	catalogDimId	catalog
Customer	customerDimId	customer	Y	Y	Y
Country	countryDimId	country
Currency	currencyDimId	currency	Y	Y
Date	dateDimId	date	Y	Y	Y
Employee	employeeDimId	employee
Facility	facilityDimId	facility
Manager	managerDimId	manager
Organisation	organisationDimId	organisation	Y	Y	Y
PaymentMethod	paymentMethodDimId	payMethod
PosTerminal	posTerminalDimId	posTerminal
Product	productDimId	product	Y	Y
ProductCategory	productCategoryDimId	category
Project	projectDimId	project
SalesChannel	channelDimId	channel	Y	Y
SalesPromo	promoDimId	promo	Y	Y
SalesRep	salesrepDimId	rep	Y	Y
Store	storeDimId	store	Y	Y
Supplier	supplierDimId	supplier
Time	timeDimId	time	Y

Procurement/Purchase Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	PurchaseInvoiceFact	PurchaseOrderFact
Account	accountDimId	account
Brand	brandDimId	brand
Carrier	carrierDimId	carrier
Catalog	catalogDimId	catalog
Customer	customerDimId	customer
Country	countryDimId	country
Currency	currencyDimId	currency	Y	Y
Date	dateDimId	date	Y	Y
Employee	employeeDimId	employee
Facility	facilityDimId	facility
Manager	managerDimId	manager
Organisation	organisationDimId	organisation	Y	Y
PaymentMethod	paymentMethodDimId	payMethod
Product	productDimId	product	Y	Y
ProductCategory	productCategoryDimId	category
Project	projectDimId	project	Y	Y
SalesChannel	channelDimId	channel	Y	Y
SalesPromo	promoDimId	promo		Y
SalesRep	salesrepDimId	rep	Y	Y
Store	storeDimId	store	Y	Y
Supplier	supplierDimId	supplier
Time	timeDimId	time	Y

Human Resources Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	tbd
Account	accountDimId	account
Brand	brandDimId	brand
Carrier	carrierDimId	carrier
Catalog	catalogDimId	catalog
Customer	customerDimId	customer
Country	countryDimId	country
Currency	currencyDimId	currency
Date	dateDimId	date	Y
Employee	employeeDimId	employee	Y
Facility	facilityDimId	facility
Manager	managerDimId	manager
Organisation	organisationDimId	organisation	Y
PaymentMethod	paymentMethodDimId	payMethod
Product	productDimId	product
ProductCategory	productCategoryDimId	category
Project	projectDimId	project
SalesChannel	channelDimId	channel
SalesPromo	promoDimId	promo
SalesRep	salesrepDimId	rep	Y
Store	storeDimId	store	Y
Supplier	supplierDimId	supplier
Time	timeDimId	time

Inventory/Warehousing Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	InventoryItemFact
Account	accountDimId	account
Brand	brandDimId	brand
Carrier	carrierDimId	carrier	Y
Catalog	catalogDimId	catalog
Customer	customerDimId	customer
Country	countryDimId	country
Currency	currencyDimId	currency	Y
Date	dateDimId	date	Y
Employee	employeeDimId	employee
Facility	facilityDimId	facility	Y
Manager	managerDimId	manager
Organisation	organisationDimId	organisation	Y
PaymentMethod	paymentMethodDimId	payMethod
Product	productDimId	product	Y
ProductCategory	productCategoryDimId	category
Project	projectDimId	project
SalesChannel	channelDimId	channel
SalesPromo	promoDimId	promo
SalesRep	salesrepDimId	rep
Store	storeDimId	store
Supplier	supplierDimId	supplier
Time	timeDimId	time	Y

Project Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	TimeEntry
Account	accountDimId	account
Brand	brandDimId	brand
Carrier	carrierDimId	carrier
Catalog	catalogDimId	catalog
Customer	customerDimId	customer	Y
Country	countryDimId	country
Currency	currencyDimId	currency
Date	dateDimId	date	Y
Employee	employeeDimId	employee
Facility	facilityDimId	facility
Manager	managerDimId	manager	Y
Organisation	organisationDimId	organisation	Y
PaymentMethod	paymentMethodDimId	payMethod
Product	productDimId	product
ProductCategory	productCategoryDimId	category
Project	projectDimId	project	Y
ProjectTask	taskDimId	task	Y
SalesChannel	channelDimId	channel
SalesPromo	promoDimId	promo
SalesRep	salesrepDimId	rep
Store	storeDimId	store
Supplier	supplierDimId	supplier
Time	timeDimId	time

Accounting Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	tbd
Account	accountDimId	account
Brand	brandDimId	brand
Carrier	carrierDimId	carrier
Catalog	catalogDimId	catalog
Customer	customerDimId	customer
Country	countryDimId	country
Currency	currencyDimId	currency
Date	dateDimId	date	Y
Employee	employeeDimId	employee
Facility	facilityDimId	facility
Manager	managerDimId	manager
Organisation	organisationDimId	organisation	Y
PaymentMethod	paymentMethodDimId	payMethod	Y
Product	productDimId	product
ProductCategory	productCategoryDimId	category
Project	projectDimId	project
SalesChannel	channelDimId	channel
SalesPromo	promoDimId	promo
SalesRep	salesrepDimId	rep
Store	storeDimId	store
Supplier	supplierDimId	supplier
Time	timeDimId	time

Manufacturing Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	AssetUtilisation
Asset	assetDimId	asset

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