Model Building: Common Guidelines for Dimensions

Key type dimensions :

• Growing dimensions, such as Products, Projects, Customer, Companies

• Dimensions that need to be scoped, such as Scenario, Time, Measures

• Dimensions that might be used in a formula reference

Value type dimensions :

• Static dimensions in terms of size; they are not growing rapidly

• Dimensions with a large number of levels (if possible, it could be defined as Attribute)

• Departments, Regions dimensions