While Infolytik provides several pre-built analysis (reports) to allow administrators and architects to "jump start" their BI platform discovery, it is often times not enough. New reports therefore must be created to meet specific needs of the organization, or enhancements to existing ones. For example, a user may use the Inactive User Logon report - but want to enhance it by adding the user's email address. That attribute (email address) doesn't exist in the default report, but the MetaMiner universe lets you add it to the report.

The following topics provide a complete description of the universe objects, what they are used for and any other real-world examples that help illustrate their helpfulness.

Each section represents a universe class. If there are sub-classes, then they will be further described as sub-sections. The following illustrates all classes at the highest level: