A UML Profile for Representing Business Object States in a Data Warehouse

Data Warehouse (DWH) systems allow to analyze business objects relevant to an enterprise organization (e.g., orders or customers). Analysts are interested in the states of these business objects: A customer is either a potential customer, a first time customer, a regular customer or a past customer; purchase orders may be pending or fullfilled. Business objects and their states can be distributed over many parts of the DWH, and appear in measures, dimension attributes, levels, etc. Surprisingly, this knowledge

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: DAWAK
• Authors: Veronika Stefanov, Beate List
• Keywords: Business Objects, DAWAK 2007, Information Management, Potential Customer, Time Customer