Category: (3) TAM Application Type
Application Identifier: 9.6.3.4
Maturity Level: 4
BI Supporting Applications is a layer that contains components for managing metadata and providing supplemental information to the layers above, such as reference hierarchies and dimensions for organization or product filtering. Its position in the stack shows that these components generally support the Delivery Mechanism, Reporting, and Performance Management layers – these layers comprise the ‘Information Delivery’ layer indicated in high level conceptual models of BI/BI/Data Warehousing. Several components in this layer are considered to be more in the Knowledge Management domain and are not specific to BI, therefore, they were placed out of scope.
The BI Supporting Application Layer includes the following functionality:
This was created from the Frameworx 16.0 Model