Figure 7-24 The top half of this figure shows the Corporate member set of the Entity
dimension, while the bottom half shows the ExpenseAccounts member set of
the Account dimension.
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Models
In the PerformancePoint Server Planning module, a model is the basic unit of
data storage. Models contain dimension member sets that define the structure of
the model and for what levels and members the data is stored. Different business
scenarios may require a different number of models. For example, you may have
seen a catalog that comes with a separate printed price list, so that the life of the
catalog is longer since it doesn??™t have prices printed in it. This way, a business
might schedule monthly or quarterly price updates, so a pricing model would have
a monthly or quarterly grain, while the sales model would have a daily grain.
As mentioned previously in this chapter, model sites organize the application
and data. Every application has a single parent model site that contains predefined
dimensions and global assumption models. All subsequent model sites in the
application are referred to as model subsites.
The Models workspace within the Planning Business Modeler can be selected by
clicking on the Models link in the Workspace Browser displayed earlier in Figure 7-10.
A new model can be created by clicking the Create a Model link in the Model Tasks
pane to the right side of the Models workspace or by selecting the Create a Mode
under the Actions menu.
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