Analytic Services Fundamentals

5
Enhancing Database Outlines

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Objectives
At the end of this lesson, you should be able to:

Describe computational, reporting, and analytical capabilities defined in

the database outline
Create business-view dimensions to enhance data analysis
Set dimension and member properties to define their rollup and
reporting behaviors
Create attribute dimensions to extend reporting capabilities

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Enhancing Analytic Capabilities

Business-view dimensions enhance the analytic capabilities of
the database outline.

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Creating Business-View Dimensions

1. Select Outline > Update outline

4
Created Products dimension
5
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Enhancing Computational Capabilities

The database outline contains the following metadata that enhances
Analytic Services computational capabilities:

Consolidation operators

Member formulas

Variance reporting calculation

Time balance

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Consolidation Property and Operators

Consolidation property defines how the member rolls up to its parent.

Valid consolidation operators are:

Addition (+)
Subtraction (-)
Multiplication (*)
Division (/)
Percent (%)
Ignore (~)
Excluded from
consolidation
Margin
Sales

(+)

COGS

(-)

Margin = Sales COGS

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Consolidation Order

Consolidation order is defined by the order of members in the outline.

Analytic Services calculates data in top-down order.

6.67

Parent
Member 1

(+)

10

Member 2

(+)

20

Member 3

(-)

25

Member 4

(*)

40

Member 5 (%)

50

Member 6

(/)

60

Member 7

(~)

70

30
5
25

200
400

40

6.67

50

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60

Setting Member Consolidation

Consolidation buttons
2

1
Assigned
consolidation
operator

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Defining Member Calculation

Member formulas define complex computations in the outline.

"Ending Inventory" = "Opening Inventory" - Sales + Additions;
Markup = (Retail - Cost) % Retail;

Operators and functions return sets of member or data values.

IF (@ISMBR(Jan))
"Opening Inventory" = Jan;
ELSE
"Opening Inventory" = @PRIOR("Ending Inventory");
ENDIF;

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Calculating Market Share

The @PARENTVAL function returns the parent values of the member
being calculated in the specified dimension.
"Market Share" = Sales % @PARENTVAL(Markets, Sales);

Markets
West
Measures

NV

CA

AL

Sales

205

314

125

644

1820

31.83

48.76

19.41

35.38

100

Market Share

100%
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Creating Member Formulas

Create the member
formula
in Formula Editor.

3
Formula Editing pane

4
1

5
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Variance Reporting Calculation

Members that represent expense must have the Expense Reporting

tag.
Analytic Services provides two variance reporting functions:
@VAR(mbrName1, mbrName2)
@VARPER(mbrName1, mbrName2)

Example:
Actual

Budget

Variance

Variance %

Sales

100

120

-20

-16.67

COGS (Expense Reporting)

100

120

20

16.67

Variance equals Actual minus Budget.

Variance = @VAR(Actual, Budget);

Variance % equals Actual minus Budget as a percentage of Budget.

Variance % = @VARPER(Actual, Budget);
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Assigning the Expense Reporting Tag

Assigned
Expense
Reporting
tag

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Time Balance Property

Time balance property defines member consolidation across the Time

dimension.
Skip option determines how Analytic Services treats zero and missing
values.
Total Year
Qtr1
Inventory
Opening Inventory

(TB First)

Additions
Ending Inventory

(TB Last)

Jan

Feb

Mar

20

31

25

20

20

11

10

15

36

Qtr1+Qtr2+
Qtr3+Qtr4

31

25

30

30

Value of Qtr4

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Setting the Time Balance Property

Time Balance Property buttons

Skip Option buttons

Assigned
Time Balance
property

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Enhancing Reporting Capabilities

The database outline contains the following metadata that enhances
Analytic Services reporting capabilities:

Label only members

Member aliases

Shared members

Attribute dimensions

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Label Only Members

Do not store data

Group members to ease navigation and reporting

Take the value of the first child that stores data

Total Year
Qtr1

Qtr2

Qtr3

Qtr4

120

125

150

150

545

Actual

120

125

150

150

545

Budget

110

140

140

170

560

Scenario

Label Only

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Assigning the Label Only Tag

Assigned
Label Only
tag

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Shared Members

Do not store data

Products

Create an index pointer to a

stored member (base member)

Colas

(+)

Are always level 0 members

Cola

(+)

Are positioned after (below)

the base member in the outline

Diet Cola

(+)

C-Free Cola

(+)

Diet Drinks

(~)

Diet Cola

(+) Shared Member

Diet Cream

(+) Shared Member

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Creating Shared Members

2

Base
member

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Created
shared
member

Member Aliases

Aliases improve outline and report readability

Analytic Services stores aliases in the alias tables

You can create up to 10 alias tables

Year

Default
Year Total

Qtr1
Jan
Feb
Mar

Year Total
Quarter 1

Quarter 1
January
February
March

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January
February
March

Creating Aliases

4
Created alias

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Attribute Dimensions
Analysis by attribute provides depth and perspective, supporting more
informed decisions.
Base dimension
Products
Colas

Attribute dimensions
Caffeinated

Intro Date

Promotion

True

01-25-2003

Summer Time Fun

False

05-10-2002

Old Time Favorites

Caffeine Free

09-30-2001

New Millennium

Kool Cola

01-01-2001

Cola

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Associating Attribute Dimensions

4

3
2
1

Associated Attribute dimensions

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Assigning Attributes to Base Members

4

2
1

4
Assigned Attribute
5
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have
learned how to:

Describe computational, reporting,

and analytical capabilities defined in
the database outline
Create business-view dimensions to
enhance data analysis
Set dimension and member
properties to define their rollup and
reporting behaviors
Create attribute dimensions to extend
reporting capabilities

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