According to the invention, techniques for visualizing customer data contained
in databases, data marts and data warehouses. In an exemplary embodiment, the invention
provides a system for graphically analyzing relationships in data from one or more
data sources of an enterprise. The system can be used with many popular visualization
tools, such as On Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools and the like. The system
is especially useful in conjunction with a meta-model based technique for modeling
the enterprise data. The enterprise is typically a business activity, but can also
be other loci of human activity. Embodiments according to the invention can display
data from a variety of sources in order to provide visual representations of data
in a data warehousing environment.