BIAnalytix Tip Summary: Calculation only Dimension Levels

To add considerable flexibility to both report design and reporting drill-down for actionable intelligence reporting, calculation-only dimension levels should be defined. Examples of such calculations might be to display the value from one year ago compared to the current date selected, or to forecast a future value based on the last three (3) months value. Note that such calculations apply to any chosen measure and can thus have the report measures changed and added while still retaining the independent date based headings. For report design, the calculations are grouped as members of a reporting dimension level. This allows a set of related calculations to be selected once as the column headings to provide powerful analysis extensions including forecasting calculations.
Many traditional reports had a set of columns that compared a current value to past values and budgets and also displayed variance and percentage values. These values could be implemented as fully calculated measures (such as Last Year Gross) for each base measure but would result in large numbers of calculated measures. By defining the general date calculation (such as Last Year) in another dimension, then it can be selected independent of the selection of the measure (or calculated measure) providing simplicity and flexibility in reporting design.

BIAnalytix is the advanced Media data warehouse and Business Intelligence solution from Decentrix which provides general date based calculated members to provide simple but powerful comparison and forecasting analysis.

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