Business Objects Software Limited

Ping Xiang

Justin Wong

Veljko Jovanovic

Semuel Kadarusman

Patrick Wang

A system includes reception of a filter on a first dimension of a first data model, determination of an association between a second dimension of the first data model and a first dimension of a second data model, generation of a calculated dimension based on the second dimension, the rows of the calculated dimension being identical to the rows of the first dimension, application of the filter to the rows of the calculated dimension to generate filtered rows of the calculated dimension, execution of an inner join between the filtered rows of the calculated dimension and a fact table of the second data model to generate a result table including one or more measure values of the second data model, and generation of a visualization including the result table.

Server-side cross-model filtering

Some embodiments provide execution of a query on a target data model which is filtered on a measure of a source data model, even if the source data model and the target data model are not logically linked. Some embodiments further support execution of a query on a target data model which is filtered on a measure of a source data model and on a dimension filter of another data model. Some embodiments provide for a substantial amount of query execution to occur on the backend, thereby freeing client resources in comparison to prior approaches.

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