Where the process of financial consolidation within Hyperion Enterprise was working well, there was a strong need for more advanced, multidimensional analysis of data. The information from the general ledgers of the operating companies was loaded into Hyperion Enterprise in its entity and (sub)account dimensions, but the analysis also needs to be done on dimensions like business unit, market, region, and brand. These dimensions were well coded into the entities and (sub)accounts, within Hyperion Enterprise but could not be analysed through those dimensions.