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Reference models for data analysis with data warehouses may consist of multidimensional reference models and analysis graphs. Multidimensional reference models are best-practice domain-specific data models for online analytical processing. Analysis graphs are reference models of analysis processes for event-driven data analysis. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as large multinational companies may benefit from the use of reference models for data analysis. The availability of multidimensional reference models lowers the obstacles that inhibit SMEs from using business intelligence (BI) technology. Multinational companies may define multidimensional reference models for increased compliance among subsidiaries and departments. Furthermore, the definition of analysis graphs facilitates the handling of business events for both SMEs and large companies. Modelers may customize the chosen reference models, tailoring the models to the specific needs of the individual company or local subsidiary. Customizations may consist of additions, omissions, and modifications with respect to the reference model. In this paper, we propose a metamodel and customization approach for multidimensional reference models and analysis graphs. We specifically address the explicit modeling of key performance indicators as well as the definition of analysis situations and analysis graphs.

Aiming at the unstructured brain data and data-driven research process, provenances have become an important component of brain and health big data rather than the accessory of raw experimental data in the systematic Brain Informatics (BI) study. However, the existing file-based or transaction-database-based provenance queries cannot effectively support quickly understanding data and generating decisions or suppositions in the systematic BI study, which need multi-aspect and multi-granularity provenance information and a process of incremental modification. Inspired by studies on the data warehouse and online analytical processing (OLAP) technology, this paper proposes a BI provenance warehouse. The provenance cube and basic OLAP operations are defined. A complete Data-Brain-based development approach is also designed. Such a BI provenance warehouse represents a radically new way for developing the brain big data center, which regards raw experimental data, provenances and domain ontologies as different levels of brain big data for data sharing and mining.