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Choosing a Business Process

A business process is an important operation in your organization that some legacy system supports. You collect data from this system to use in your dimensional database. The business process identifies what end users are doing with their data, where the data comes from, and how to transform that data to make it meaningful. The information can come from many sources, including finance, sales analysis, market analysis, customer profiles. The following list shows different business processes you might use to determine what data to include in your dimensional database:

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