Time Dimension Creation

One of the cool new things about Analysis Services in SQL 2005 is the ability to define your time dimension from a wizard.
In BIDS you just enter what dates from and to, if you want a Fiscal Calendar and then what levels
e.g. Days > Weeks > Months > Years or Months > Quarters > Half Year > Years
It will create the hierarchy for you in AS but the really cool thing is that you can then push that information back to your SQL database. The Schema update wizard will create and populate a table in SQL for you containing all the information from the wizard.
Nothing to stop you then using this new tabe to create your time hierarchies in TM1 using Turbo Integrator......

HR Cubes

When doing detailed bottom up budgeting, people like to be able to budget for staff individually per department. There is often a difference between the level of departments that a person can see for GL purposes and what they can see for HR budgeting.

e.g. an accountant may be able to see the whole department structure for GL but should only budget for one department when it comes to budgeting salary costs per person.

I find the best architecture is to build the HR cube with a separate dimension called HR_Department. This dimension is a direct replica of the normal Department dimension but it can have entirely separate security applied to it

Now its just a case of creating some extra groups to handle clients access to the HR_Departments.