Analysis Cubes Overview

Analysis Cubes, part of the Vision Performance Management module, provides you with a Vision project data cube and a general ledger data cube from which you can create custom Vision reports and performance dashboards.

• Project Cube — This cube contains project, labor, expense, billed, plan, accounts receivable, and time analysis data.

• General Ledger Cube — This cube contains financial and general ledger data.

The Analysis Cubes application runs in the background; you do not access it directly. It uses Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) technology. You must refresh the data cubes on a regular basis so that current Vision data is included in your custom reports and dashboards.

With Vision data cubes, you can create Vision custom reports with Microsoft® Excel® 2007, Excel 2010, or other report writing software that supports SQL Server Analysis Services OLAP cubes, a component of Microsoft® SQL Server™.