Functionalities and Models¶

Functionalities are user-functional concepts, that is the functions that the user is configuring regardless of how they are implemented. Once you have selected the data source, the system can automatically configure the data warehouse structure and data mapping according to the selected functionalities.

Data modeling is an abstract representation of the data structures to be used in the tables of a database to easily organize the data you have to store and the data you want to retrieve and show. A data model organizes entities and their relationships, standardizes how these elements relate to one another and provides a way to access them without directly writing on the database or reading from it. Models describe specific MOM functionalities and refer to ISA-95 standard.