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Enterprise Dimension Management
The Case
The Vision
While analytical solutions continue to redefine the speed,
accuracy and flexibility of business analysis and decision
making across today’s organizations, a new challenge has
evolved. Proper coordination of business dimensions and
hierarchies across analytical platforms, the general ledger, and
the data warehouse has quickly become as cumbersome and
error-prone to manage as it is necessary to ensure the accuracy,
speed and ease-of-use that drive the value of these
technologies.
+EDM, Enterprise Dimension Manager, tackles the rapidly
escalating issues of dimension coordination, integration and
reconciliation that enterprises face with each incremental year
of systems evolution.
Enterprises have implemented their own special blend of ERP,
CRM, Business Intelligence, Financial Reporting, Planning, and
other operational systems in order to accommodate unique
business requirements. As their information system landscape
evolves, enterprise dimension management becomes critical to
ensuring accuracy and consistency across the portfolio of
systems.
Each of these systems requires the same dimensional information
to operate, yet they manage this information independently,
which directly affects dimensional synchronization and
reconciliation across systems. Addressing these redundant
efforts is the first step to ensuring coherent and correct data.
Recent legislation, such as Sarbanes-Oxley in the United States
and new international accounting standards, has driven many
enterprises to evaluate their enterprise dimension management
strategy for the first time. However, the issues associated with
dimension management have impacted businesses for years.
+EDM provides a controlled, process-driven environment for
collaborative dimensional management and enforces consistency,
accuracy and integrity throughout the enterprise and across
heterogeneous business intelligence systems such as Microsoft
Analysis Services, Hyperion Essbase, Cognos PowerPlay and Applix
TM1. Additionally, integration is supported across relational
warehouse and marting databases such as Teradata, SQL Server,
DB2 and Oracle.
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