1. A computer system, the system comprising: a processor; a memory in communication with the processor, the memory comprising: a repository that stores a metric catalog, wherein the metric catalog represents a slice of a multidimensional data source, and wherein the metric catalog includes a selected measure, at least one analysis dimension, and at least one fixed dimension; a metric catalog system to: parse the metric catalog; generate one or more queries based on the parsed metric catalog; execute the one or more queries on the multidimensional data source; and based on the execution of the one or more queries, determine values of the selected measure for the at least one analysis dimension.