Core Concepts

Wusool organises your master data around a small number of objects. Understanding how they connect helps you design a governance structure that scales. This page covers each concept and how it relates to the others.

Dimensions

A Dimension is a governed list of values that represents one axis of your business data. Common examples include Region, Cost Centre, Product Line, and Department.

Each Dimension contains a flat list of values. You add values manually or import them from a CSV file. Once a value exists in a Dimension, it becomes available across the platform: in Combined Dimensions, Workbooks, and any downstream system that reads from Wusool.

Combined Dimensions

A Combined Dimension joins two or more source Dimensions and produces their cross-product: every possible pairing of values. You use Combined Dimensions when your business logic depends on the intersection of multiple Dimensions.

For example, crossing a Region Dimension (Europe, APAC, Americas) with a Product Line Dimension (Enterprise, SMB, Consumer) produces nine pairs. If your organisation does not sell the Consumer product in APAC, you remove that pair from the Combined Dimension. Downstream systems and Workbooks then only present the eight valid pairings.

Combined Dimensions save time and prevent errors. Instead of maintaining a spreadsheet of valid pairs that falls out of date, you define the rules once and let Wusool enforce them.

Workbooks

A Workbook is a structured data-entry table. You define its columns using Dimensions, then invite users to fill in rows. Each Dimension column constrains the user to select from the Dimension’s governed values.

Consider a quarterly budget process. You create a Workbook with columns for Region, Cost Centre, and Budget Amount. When an FP&A analyst fills in a row, they pick “Europe” from the Region Dimension and “Marketing” from the Cost Centre Dimension. They cannot type a free-text value that does not exist in the Dimension. This eliminates the typos, abbreviation mismatches, and phantom categories that plague spreadsheet-based collection.

Workbooks give you governed data entry with an audit trail, without building a custom application.

Workspaces

A workspace is your organisation’s isolated environment in Wusool. All Dimensions, Combined Dimensions, Workbooks, and users belong to a single workspace. Data does not cross workspace boundaries.

Most organisations use one workspace. If you operate separate business units that share no master data, you can create separate workspaces for each.

You manage your workspace at app.wusool.app/settings.

Roles

Roles control what users can do inside a workspace. A role determines whether a user can view Dimensions, edit Dimension values, manage Workbooks, invite other users, or administer the workspace. The roles are Viewer, Contributor, and Admin, plus the workspace Owner.

Workspace admins assign roles when they invite users and can change them at any time.