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by tomnipotent 1753 days ago
> non technical staff requesting the data

That's a good way of looking at it.

Consider the cube as the end product of a process of automating data the business needs to make decisions. It starts with "How much did we sell yesterday?" and expands to include week-over-week/year-over-year comparisons, breakdowns by category, leaders/losers and other frequently looked at answers.

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Thank you for the help!