Model business entities, not just reports

The information system’s goal of mimicking the structure of the business processes allows users to understand what happens and make decisions accordingly. Sometimes users will ask for specific reports they need short-term, but one must see beyond that. When modeling business events (with facts and dimensions at the lowest grain), that would already cover the reports they wanted (and many others). By modeling business events, one enables a plethora of insights, anticipating the most common questions.

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