Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

Appendix A. Glossary for SAP BI
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In this appendix we include the glossary from SAP BI. You can also find this SAP
BI Glossary on the SAP BI home page (see “Related publications” on page 347).
ABC Classification
Web Item to classify objects (Customers, Products or Employees) based on a
particular measure (Revenue or Profit) using certain classification rules.
account model
Type of data modeling in which every business key figure corresponds to a
special characteristic (account or item characteristic) of the data basis. The key
figure values themselves are saved in an individual, generically technical key
figure.
Therefore, an individual key figure within an account model contains values,
which for it alone reflects no business facts. The business meaning of a key
figure value (for example sales, number of employees maintenance costs) can
only be determined in conjunction with the attribute of the account characteristic.
A single data record in the account model is made up of the fields for classifying
characteristic values (for example fiscal year, version, region), the account or
item characteristic, and one field typically for two key figures (amount and
quantity). In this way, such a data record is extremely compact. However,
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