Dimensions

A dimension represents business information that is needed and used by the enterprise to define the axes on which measures are analyzed in the context of an analytical requirement. Dimensions are the basis for defining enterprise dimensions in the data models.

Dimensions are grouped into dimension sets for each analytical requirement. Dimensions can belong to multiple dimension sets to indicate in which analytical requirements they are used. Dimensions can also be children of other dimensions, where a further decomposition is required.

Examples of dimensions include:

Claim
Customer
Product

Properties

Name (mandatory)

A business-meaningful, precise and short name in sentence case (first word starts with a capital letter).

e.g. dimension Claim
e.g. dimension Customer
e.g. dimension Product

Parent category (mandatory)

The category to which the dimension belongs. All dimensions have the parent category All Dimensions.

e.g. dimension Claim has parent All Dimensions
e.g. dimension Customer has parent All Dimensions
e.g. dimension Product has parent All Dimensions

Short description (mandatory)

A precise and short description of the dimension.

e.g. dimension Claim has short description A demand by an individual or organization to obtain money or enforcement of a right or benefit.

Long description (optional)

A long description of the dimension when the short description is not sufficient to precisely define it.

e.g. dimension Claim has long description A demand by an individual or organization to obtain money or enforcement of a right or benefit. The demand for money, services or goods from one party to another party under terms and conditions which have been defined in a financial services agreement.

Label (mandatory)

A label that identifies the type of term, the context in which this term is used, or both. All dimensions are labeled dimension.

e.g. dimension Claim is labeled dimension
e.g. dimension Customer is labeled dimension
e.g. dimension Product is labeled dimension

Status (mandatory)

Candidate: A term that is proposed by a project team for consideration.
Note: This is the default value for the terms that are delivered in BG Pack for Insurance.
Accepted: A term that is accepted by a project team and ready to be proposed as a standard at the enterprise level.
Standard: A term that is approved by the glossary authoring community and considered as a standard at the enterprise level.
Deprecated: A term that is designated as retired, and likely to be replaced by a standard term.

Synonyms (optional)

Dimensions that have the same meaning.

e.g. dimension Claim is synonym of concept Belated claims
e.g. dimension Claim is synonym of concept Claim
e.g. dimension Customer is synonym of concept Client

Preferred synonym (optional)

A flag that indicates whether the business term in question is the preferred business term in a group of synonym business terms.

e.g. concept Claim is preferred synonym in the group of synonyms that also includes dimension Claim
e.g. concept Customer is preferred synonym in the group of synonyms that also includes dimension Customer

Referencing Categories

Categories that reference the dimension. Such categories only provide a view on a subset of dimensions and are typically used to define a project scope. The scope categories are defined below the Scopes category.

Example (optional)

An example that illustrates an instance of the business term.

Associated Terms

The business terms that are associated with this dimension. Dimensions are organized in hierarchies by using Is a Type Of or Has Types associations or both.

Is A Type Of

Indicates the parent terms in the term type hierarchy. Dimensions can have one or more parents so a dimension can appear in more than one hierarchy. The parent of a dimension must be another dimension or a dimension set.

e.g. dimension Claim Is A Type Of dimension set Claims audit analysis dimensions
e.g. dimension Policy Is A Type Of dimension set Customer satisfaction analysis dimensions
e.g. dimension Policy Is A Type Of dimension Insurance policy

Has Types

Zero or more children terms in the terms type hierarchy. Dimensions can have two or more child dimensions.

e.g. dimension Claim Has Types Claim Offer
e.g. dimension Insurance Policy Has Types Commercial agreement

Related terms

Terms that are related in some way to this dimension.

e.g. dimension Claim is related to concept Business Terms >> Claim >> Claim
e.g. dimension Policy is related to concept Business Terms >> Agreement >> Policy

Assigned Assets

Lists data model elements assigned to this term in alphabetical order. This data model asset can be an entity or an attribute.

Created By

The user ID of the person who creates the term. When a special user ID is used to load the business terms content from BG Pack for Insurance, this user ID can be used to distinguish the BG Pack for Insurance content from the customized content.