Field Standardization

Each Advanced Report built with underlying OLAP reports has a list of field attributes associated with it.  Development of Advanced Reports often involves one or more individual field rules for each underlying OLAP report.  Standardization and re-use of field attributes and field rules is possible, but many organizations find that it is all too easy to duplicate fields.  Data Mart, by contrast, encourages business definition standardization and sharing of field attributes since duplication of data fields is much more easily recognizable in the Mart and thus avoidable.