http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/bi-and-analytics-f7/-t1.htm Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:28:03 GMT 10 http://kimballgroup.com/images/KGlogoBasic.gif http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/bi-and-analytics-f7/-t1.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/bi-and-analytics-f7/using-a-gis-tool-in-bi-t235.htm Robert.Hart At the recent course on Dimensional modelling the question was asked about GIS and BI. As a former GIS analyst I provided several comments but I forgot one item. The following link is to an ESRI addon for a client GIS tool called OLAP for ARCgis. It will allow you to connect from the GIS client tool to an OLAP data source (limited number supported). One of your spatial data sets (a map layer of sales districts for example) can connect to your OLAP sales district dimension based ... BI and Analytics Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:00:11 GMT http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/bi-and-analytics-f7/using-a-gis-tool-in-bi-t235.htm#1004 http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/bi-and-analytics-f7/using-a-gis-tool-in-bi-t235.htm http://kimballgroup.forumotion.net/bi-and-analytics-f7/sla-on-reports-t349.htm Arvind
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I have product Dim, Time Dim and customer Dim tables in Sales data mart and Inventory data mart. These 3 are conformed dimension, but, does it mean that I should not store additional attributes like "product start date" and "product expiry date" in the same PROD_DIM table? should I got for a PROD_DIM history, inorder to maintain the conformed dimension on PROD_DIM?

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