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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence
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IBM Cognos Business Intelligence

by Dustin Adkison
May 2013
Intermediate to advanced
318 pages
6h 44m
English
Packt Publishing
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Designing a business view of your data

In our business view layer, we will look to define additional relationships if needed, create calculated items, format our data, rename the database objects to logical names, and compress our snowflake design down to a simple star design. To do so, follow these steps:

  1. We will start by creating a new namespace to hold the Business View namespace.
  2. We will again right-click on the base Product Orders namespace and go to Create | Namespace. We will name this namespace Business View.

    We will next look at consolidating our query subjects in order to have a star design with only one level from the fact table. We want to start by creating our fact table from the data available in our underlying table, ORDER_DETAILS ...

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