Chapter 3. Building the BSO Cube

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Creating hierarchies using a parent-child reference table

• Creating hierarchies using a Generation reference table

• Adding attribute dimensions to hierarchies

• Building a Calendar dimension

• Creating date elements

• Creating Alias tables

• Developing Cube Schema and an Essbase model

• Setting Essbase properties

• Deploying a cube

• Creating an OLAP Model in EIS

• Creating an OLAP Metaoutline in EIS