The word Dimension in Business Intelligence can be thought of as a defining piece of information. If you had a list of products your business sells, each product probably holds much describing information points that can be stored as data. For example, if your business sells cars, describing information like color, price, model, year, etc... can all be considered Dimensions. Throughout the Help Documentation you may also hear Dimensions referred to as Fields for simplicity purposes.

 

By selecting Data in the Side Menu or by selecting Data Source in the Home Tab in the Ribbon, you can always access the list of available Dimensions in your In-Memory Database.

 

Figure 1: Available Dimensions listed for the AdventureWorksSales sample.