Overview of Designer

Designer can be used only for Budgeting & Planning and for custom budgeting, that is, for budgeting that utilizes the Infor EPM platform but not any Infor EPM business application.

In Designer, you design multidimensional OLAP databases and store the metadata in a relational, Designer database. The Designer project is a set of dimensions, elements, and cubes that make up a model.

Each Designer database resides in an application and each application has a single OLAP instance, whose data model can be described by the information stored in the Designer database in that application. The Designer navigation tree gives you an overview of the model.

Designer offers advanced methods for creating complex models. It enables you to define dimensions and cubes, and has rich dimensional features such as multiple hierarchies and attributes. Designer maintains user rights to the model, and supports basic data loading functionality. Support for multiple languages is automatic.

The Connector enables you to access other data sources and import their data and structures into a model.

After the model is created in Designer, it is published to the OLAP database that is used by the running application for data storage. The data is then loaded into the model using a separate set of tools.