Business Intelligence

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

Sales Domain

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

Procurement/Purchase Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	PurchaseInvoiceFact	PurchaseOrderFact	JIRA ticket
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
TimeEntry	timeEntryDimId	timeEntry

Human Resources Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	tbd	JIRA ticket
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
TimeEntry	timeEntryDimId	timeEntry	Y

Inventory/Warehousing Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	InventoryItemFact	JIRA ticket
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	Y
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	Y
TimeEntry	timeEntryDimId	timeEntry

Project

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	tbd	JIRA ticket
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	Y
Facility	facilityDimId	facility
Manager	managerDimId	manager	Y
Organisation	organisationDimId	organisation	Y
PaymentMethod	paymentMethodDimId	payMethod
Product	productDimId	product
ProductCategory	productCategoryDimId	category
Project	projectDimId	project	Y
SalesChannel	channelDimId	channel
SalesPromo	promoDimId	promo
SalesRep	salesrepDimId	rep
Store	storeDimId	store
Supplier	supplierDimId	supplier
Time	timeDimId	time
TimeEntry	timeEntryDimId	timeEntry	Y

Accounting Domain

			Facts
Dimension	Fact-field	Fact-alias	tbd	JIRA ticket
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
TimeEntry	timeEntryDimId	timeEntry

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