What is data Cube ?Imported data is stored in multi-dimensional data cubes. Cubes contain fact data that are divided by dimensions and each detailed fact "cell" contains measure values about that fact. This is an example of a Sales cube that has Customers, Products and the Time dimensions and has two measures - Sales amount and Units sold. Each detailed cube "cell" contains sales amount and units sold for particular product, customer and time period:
Read more about Basic Concepts of Flex.bi. | What HansaWorld data is supported by Flex.bi ?Currently Flex.bi Cloud version supports data import for selected HansaWorld modules and features (listed below) - it means that if you upload standard HansaWorld exported register files (*txt) or connect with Rest api - Data Cubes with dimensions, hierarchies, measures and properties that will be created automatically based on data received will be created automatically in Analyse tab. For Flex.bi Private - you can create and combine together also other data cubes as this version is open for customizations. This allow to create data cubes not only for other specific Hansaworld modules but also other from SQL and Rest api conected data. If you have a question about data cubes, dimensions, hierarchies - please read more about Basic Concepts of Flex.bi or contact us support@flex.bi |
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What defines a HansaWorld data cube ?
| Essential registers : | Essential to create data cube |
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| Base currency setting - BaseCurBlock | Defines what currency your system is using and gives directions how to calculate measures (Currency, Base currency, Base currency 1) |
Main register (Depends on data cube, see list below ) | Main data source of data that belongs to this data cube For example: Hansaworld Invoices main register is Invoices, For Hansaworld Financials - Transactions. See full list below . |
| Optional registers and measures : | will add other measure values, give names to members and create properties. |
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| Extra Registers | Extra values that can be added to Measures dimension based on some specific register in Hansaworld. For example, Invoice Balance ( Invoices ) , Item Status ( Stock) |
| Registers with Dimension | Optional registers are all the rest that you decide to import and would like to use in your reports as measures or filters. |
| Registers with Dynamic dimension | |
| Shared Registers and Measures | In HansaWorld ERP typically you can create reports based on current modules data, in Flex.bi - data can be mixed together from different data cubes as long as they makes sense and have valid connection. Those are called Shared Measures. You can suggest shared measures of your choice - support@flex.bi. |
Type | Hansaworld Financials | Hansaworld Invoices | Hansaworld Quotations | Hansaworld Sales Orders | Hansaworld CRM | Hansaworld Job Costing | Hansaworld Stock | Hansaworld Stock Depreciations | Hansaworld Goods Receipts | Hansaworld Stock Movements | |
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Main Register | Transactions TrVc | Invoices | Quotations | Sales Orders | Activities | Project budget TBBUVc | Item History ItemHistVc | Stock Depreciation - SDVc | Goods Receipts - PUVc | Stock Movements StockMovVc | |
Invoice balance Arvc | Extra register |
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Object Class ObjTypeVc | |||||||||||
Objects ObjVc | Dynamic dimension | ||||||||||
| Gives name to Objects level members ( if not imported, Object name is missing, only code can be taken from main register ) | |||||||||||
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| Item Groups - ITVc | Hierarchy (Item Dimension) | ||||||||||
| Customers CUVc | Dimension | ||||||||||
HansaWorld Invoices
This is the main data cube of first set of cubes that are very similar - Invoices, These 3 data cubes are based on similar set of data and will look almost the same in Flex.bi - except the name of Main register dimension name will be different - it depends on Transactional register on each cube. Read more about Basic Concepts of Flex.bi
Optional ( if you are planing to analyse by this field )
Hierarchy | Measures | |
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| Yes | ||
| Invoice Balance | ||
Items - INVc | ||
Item varieties - VARVc | ||
| Item variety groups - VARGVc |
Item varieties and Item variety groups are not available in Job Costing, CRM and Financials cubes.
Dynamic Dimensions ( selected during import in Surce appplication tab )
| Name of register | Cubes | Measures | Properties |
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Customer Class CCLassVc | All | ||
| Item Class DIVc | All | ||
| Object Class - OTVc | All | ||
| Objects - ObjVc | All | ||
HansaWorld CRM
HansaWorld Job Costing
HansaWorld Financials
HansaWorld Stock
Goods Receipt, Stock Depreciation, Stock Movement cubes require that the Stock cube is also imported with locations and the optional location classes and location types.