1. Target Level A Target Level is the entity that a marketer is interested in counting. Target Levels are usually customer types such as individuals, businesses, or households
2. Segmentation Catalog A segmentation catalog is a Oracle BI subject area (presentation catalog) that is enabled for segmentation. The segmentation catalog provides a set of dimensions and facts that can be used to create segment criteria
3. Sampling Factor Sampling is a subset table for a target level dimension table that contains the same set of columns, but only a percentage of the data
4. List Catalog A list catalog is a Oracle BI subject area (presentation catalog) that is enabled for List Format design (list generation)
5. Qualified List Item
A Qualified List Item is entity that is evaluated against segment criteria so that the information related to that entity can be exported in a list file
6. Caching
Segmentation criteria blocks that count target level identifiers may be used by a user frequently
7. Saved Result Sets
The resulting set of target level identifiers of complex segmentation criteria may be saved permanently
摘自:http://oraclebiblog.blogspot.com/2009/06/marketing-server-optimization-on.html