Basic Concepts

Before explaining the entire platform and in order to facilitate understanding of the help, we  must discuss the terminology of BI, as well as of the existing elements present in the LITEBI platform.

LITEBI Elements

Cubes: Set of data oriented to analysis. Called facts, they are caused by operational transactions. For example, each sales line. Once structured as a cube, they allow the interaction of a business user, without expertise, with large amounts of data.

Dimensions: Set of data representing different views of analysis within a data set. They allow to group, filter or select the information that is being analyzed. For example: Customers, Products, Dates, Time on ...

Views: Dynamic reports made ​​on the basis of the information stored in the cube, using the dimensions needed to answer business questions.

Dashboards: Control tool composed of different visual representations that allow to control different aspects of business at a glance.

Balanced Scorecard: Tool that continuously displays when a company and its employees achieve the results defined by the strategic plan.

ETL: Process that enables organizations to extract data from multiple sources, transform it, clean it, and load it into LITEBI for the analysis.

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