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Introduction

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

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 associated entities) are based on the book 'Data Warehouse Toolkit' by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross

Facts and Dimensions

Fact tables (aka facts) stores the performance measurements resulting from the organisation's business process events. Dimension tables (aka dimensions) contain the textual contacts 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