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Welcome to the Aloudata CAN documentation. This guide helps you understand the product, get started quickly, manage metrics, and integrate metric data into your business workflows.

Product Overview

  1. Product Introduction: Learn what Aloudata CAN does, how it is positioned, and which product capabilities it provides.

  2. Product Benefits: Understand the key advantages of Aloudata CAN and the value it brings to business and IT teams.

  3. Use Cases: Explore common scenarios where Aloudata CAN helps teams govern, calculate, analyze, and reuse metrics.

Getting Started

  1. User Interface Overview: Become familiar with the main navigation, modules, and workspace layout.

  2. Core Concepts: Learn the essential concepts you need before working with metrics, dimensions, datasets, and acceleration.

  3. 5-Minute Quick Start: Follow a short walkthrough from data import to metric analysis.

Data Integration

Use the data integration guides to connect data sources, import internal tables, upload local files, and manage data tables that provide the foundation for metric analysis.

Metric Definition And Management

  1. Dataset management: Create and maintain datasets as the data foundation for metrics.

  2. Dimension management: Create dimensions that make it possible to analyze metrics from different business perspectives.

  3. Metric management: Define, publish, search, and maintain business metrics with consistent calculation logic.

  4. Metric acceleration: Improve query performance through materialization and acceleration strategies.

Metric Catalog

  1. Search for metrics: Quickly find the metrics you need.

  2. View metric details: Understand a metric's definition, owner, lineage, permissions, and available dimensions.

  3. Request permissions: Apply for metric access through a governed approval process.

Metric Applications

  1. Metric dashboards: Build dashboards for business analysis and visual monitoring.

  2. Metric views: Save reusable metric query logic and connect metric results to BI tools.

  3. Metric monitoring: Monitor important metrics and receive alerts when values change abnormally.

  4. Metric attribution: Analyze why a metric changed and identify contributing dimensions or related metrics.

API Integration

Use the API reference to integrate Aloudata CAN metric data and management capabilities with internal systems, BI tools, or other downstream applications.

Function Reference

Use the function reference to learn which calculation, text, date, logical, aggregation, and type-conversion functions are available when defining metrics and expressions.