PRESENTATION OF BUSINESS

INTELLIGENCE

Submitted to: Ms . Birpal Kaur

Submitted by:GU-2016-1001
GU-2016-1157
GU-2016-1169
 DIMENSIONAL MODELING
 Dimensional Modeling(DM) names a set of
techniques and concepts used in dataware house
design.

 Dimensional modeling is one of the methods of

data modeling , that help us to store the data in
such way that it is relatively easy to retrieve the
data from the database.

 Dimensional modeling always uses the concept

of facts(measures) ,and dimensions(context).
BENEFITS OF DIMENSIONAL MODELING
 Understandability-
 Compared to the normalized model , the
dimensional model to easier to understand and
more intuitive.
 Simplicity also allows software to navigate
databases efficiently.
 In dimensional models , information is grouped
into coherent business categories or dimensions ,
making it easier to read and interpret.
QUERY PERFORMANCE
 Predictable, standard framework.

 Respond well to changes in user reporting needs.

 Relatively easy to add data without reloading

tables.

 Fast execution of query.

FACT TABLE
 A fact table stores quantitative information for
analysis and is often denormalized.

 Contains two or more foreign keys.

 Tend to have huge numbers of records.

DIMENSION TABLE
 A dimension table stores attributes, or
dimensions, that describe the objects in a fact
table.
 A data warehouse organizes descriptive
attributes as columns in dimension tables.
 For Example: A customer dimension’s attributes
could include first and last name, birth date,
gender, etc. or a website dimension would include
site name.
 A dimension table has a primary key column
that uniquely identifies each dimension record
(row).
 DATA CUBES
 Data Cubes are an easy way to look at the data
( allow us to look at complex data in a simple format).

 Although called a "cube", it can be 2-dimensional, 3-

dimensional, or higher-dimensional.

 Data cube is a structure that enable OLAP to achieves

the multidimensional functionality.
 DATA CUBES

 data cube design is for efficiency in data

retrieval (ensures report optimization).
DIMENSIONS AND MEASURES
 data cubes have categories of data called
dimensions and measures.

 measure
represents some fact (or number) such as cost or
units of service.

 dimension
 represents descriptive categories of data such as

time or location.
DATA CUBES
 DATA CUBE CONCEPT
 Three important concepts associated with
data cubes :
 1. Slicing.

 2. Dicing.

 3. Rotating.
 SLICING
 The term slice most often refers to a two
dimensional page selected from the cube.

 subset of a multidimensional array

corresponding to a single value for one or
more members of the dimensions not in the
subset.
SLICING OF WIRELESS MOUSE
SLICING-ASIA
 DICING
 A related operation to slicing

 In the case of dicing, we define a subcube of

the original space.

 Dicing provides you the smallest available

slice.
 ROTATING
 Rotating changes the dimensional orientation of
the report from the cube data.
 For example …

– rotating may consist of swapping the rows and

columns, or moving one of the row dimensions
into the column dimension
 or swapping an off-spreadsheet dimension with
one of the dimensions in the page display
 DIMENSIONS
 represents descriptive categories of data such
as time or location.

 Each dimension includes different levels of

categories.
 CATEGORIES
 Is an item that matches a specific description
or classification such as years in a time

 dimension.
Categories can be at different levels of
information within a dimension.
 CATEGORIES
 • parent category
– is the next higher level of another category in a
drill-up path.

 • child category
– is the next lower level category in a drill-down
path.
MEASURES
 The measures are the actual data values that
occupy the cells as defined by the dimensions
selected.

 Measures include facts or variables typically

stored as numerical fields.
MEASURE EXAMPLE