In the BI/DW projects, try to use common and aligned business languages in those deliverable including reports and dashboards. It can avoid the misunderstanding of the terms in deliverable between business units.
Sometime, the business language may still be ambiguous between some business units. For example, don't confuse the terms - revenue, net profit and income. Are different business units use the different words talking the same thing? It is why we recommended having a organizational wide participation to define, document and spread the business terminologies within the organization. Usually, we may talk to the accountants of the organization first. They could give us great input before we propose the business terminology standard.
BI is not only a software solution, but also a set of practice to facilitate business decision making. The alignment of business terminology is one of them.
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