OLAP Cube Configuration

OLAP serves as a single platform for all types of business analytical needs, including planning, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis. These meta-data structures are used to store and organize data. This section helps you enable the OLAP Cube configurations for managing dimension hierarchies, rollup members, and calculated members. 

To configure an OLAP Cube, do the following:

Planful provides OLAP Cube configuration functionality to help Administrative users manage dimension hierarchies, rollup members, and calculated members. To configure an OLAP Cube, complete the following steps:

1. Navigate to Maintenance > Reports > Cube Settings. The Attribute Settings tab is displayed. This page allows you to manage attribute reporting. Attributes in the All Attributes hierarchy can be added to (mapped) or removed (unmapped) from the OLAP cubes. You can map up to 5 attribute hierarchies per OLAP cube.
   Now that the attributes/attribute hierarchies are attached to the Reporting (OLAP) cubes, they can be used in Reports like any other dimension. Learn more about Cube Settings here.
2. Navigate to Maintenance > Reports > Process Reporting Area. Select the Reporting Area and the scenarios to process and click Process Now. Learn more about Process Reporting Area here.
3. Click the Dimensions tab to process dimensions. Select the checkbox next to each dimension and click Process Now.
4. Navigate to Maintenance > Reports > Lock Data. Lock Data applies to periods. Use lock data to prevent further data input and manage cube processing for reporting. Click the Actual Data Load Months tab to process only those periods selected. For example, if you load data for June 2016, but you don’t select June 2016, the June data is not processed in the cube and is not available in reports. . Learn more about Lock Data here.
5. Navigate to Maintenance > Reports > Point of View to define dimension members used as default report level (page level) parameters in a report. Select members for each segment displayed for the selected Reporting Area.  Learn more about Point of View here.
6. Navigate to Maintenance > Reports > Setup Reporting Scenario to select a budget and forecast scenario for each fiscal year. Learn more about Setup Reporting Scenario here.
7. Navigate to Maintenance > Reports > Dimension Security to control dimension access to report users. Learn more about Dimension Security here.