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If an Approver is defined for the assignment, the approver will receive e-mail
notifications after the review is done; the approver opens the assignments in the
same way the reviewer accesses the assignments. In the Actions drop-down box,
Approver has the option to Approve the submission or Reject it. Rejecting a
submission will automatically send it back to the contributor that is responsible for
the submission, where he or she can modify the data and submit it again.
If approved, the submitted plan data will be available in both the Application
Database, Budget_AppDB in our example, and in the OLAP cube, which is
CorpBudget in our example. This data can be exported to an external system using
data export rules, queried directly from the relational database or OLAP cube, or
accessed using any of the several reporting tools.
Summary
The Planning Server is a large product by itself, yet is represents just one of the three
main pillars of PerformancePoint Server 2007. Planning Server was created to allow
organizations to more easily manage the budgeting and forecasting processes, which
are often tedious, complex procedures. PerformancePoint Server seeks to ameliorate
the process by providing a strong security model that focuses users on just what
they can do. This is achieved first by defining an approval process that flows though
the system, so that changes are submitted to the approver automatically and once
approved, changes flow into the system.
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