Comments on: Cube Design – meeting the business needs ../../../../2010/02/cube-design-meeting-the-business-needs/ XLCubed Blog Thu, 10 Jan 2019 08:27:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.3.21 By: Phil ../../../../2010/02/cube-design-meeting-the-business-needs/#comment-192 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:43:10 +0000 http://blog.xlcubed.com/?p=713#comment-192 Interesting article. Although far away from being a Cube expert I have worked with them (and created simple ones) in the past (have received an initial training a few weeks ago).

What I have been taught is the fact that – the same goes for database design – seven out of nine steps necessary are research, asking questions, verifying and validating if we have the same understanding etc.

I have applied a cube to one of my colleagues and before we together developed the necessary dimensions / asked ourselves what we wanted to see, I gave her a short introduction on what this tool was capable of. Showing her the functionality helped a lot when thinking about dimensions etc.

Maybe the approach to always have a simple example at hand would help other developers (although I’m not a developer 😉 ) with their next cube projects.

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