Developing your semantic data model
The semantic data model is a business model that outlines the relationships between entities. The semantic data model is the model that the business users will use to interact and retrieve information from the Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse solution.
Getting ready
Before you can build the semantic data model, you need to ensure you have a good sampling of the metrics, analysis, and reports. Also, you need to understand another key definition:
Business Event: This is an entity that is a result of a business operation or event. For example, orders, invoices, shipments, and payments.
How to do it...
Understanding the relationship between the entities will enable you to determine how the information relates to each other and how it can be used. It is the key to depict and define these relationships.
1. Open your process and entity diagram.
2. Open the entity page.
3. Arrange the business events in the same sequence as the business process flow:
4. Arrange...
