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    Cube data consists of Measures, Dimensions, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
    Dimensions categorize the cube and Measures are the values of the dimensions. The cube Adventure Works shown in the following figure consists of Geography as dimension and Internet Sales as measure.

    At run-time, users can build reports from cube data much like they would from regular data sets. The key difference is that cube data sets are represented by a tree in the C1OlapPanel control with each node representing a dimensional entity or an object for measure. Furthermore, dimensions consist of Hierarchies, Levels, and Attributes.

    KPIs evaluate the measures in cube so as to present different perspectives of performance or success. In the cube data shown above, there are two KPIs-Customer Perspective and Financial Perspective.