HPCM 11.1.2.2.x - How to find data in an HPCM Standard Costing database
- by Jane Story
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When working with a Hyperion Profitability
and Cost Management (HPCM) Standard Costing application, there can often be a
requirement to check data or allocated results using reporting tools e.g
Smartview. To do this, you are
retrieving data directly from the Essbase databases related to your HPCM
model. For information, running reports
is covered in Chapter 9 of the HPCM User documentation. The aim of this blog is
to provide a quick guide to finding this data for reporting in the HPCM
generated Essbase database in v11.1.2.2.x of HPCM.
In order to retrieve data from an HPCM
generated Essbase database, it is important to understand each of the following
dimensions in the Essbase database and where data is located within them:
Measures dimension –
identifies Measures
AllocationType dimension –
identifies Direct Allocation Data or Genealogy Allocation data
Point Of View (POV)
dimensions – there must be at least one, maximum of four.
Business dimensions:
Stage
Business dimensions – these will be identified by the Stage prefix.
Intra-Stage
dimension – these will be identified by the _Intra suffix.
Essbase outlines and reporting is explained in the
documentation here:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hpm_user/ch09s02.html
For additional details on reporting measures, please
review this section of the documentation:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hpm_user/apas03.html
Reporting
requirements in HPCM quite often start with identifying non balanced items in
the Stage Balancing report. The
following documentation link provides help with identifying some of the items
within the Stage Balancing report:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hpm_user/generatestagebalancing.html
The following are some types of data upon
which you may want to report:
Stage Data:
Direct
Input
Assigned
Input Data
Assigned
Output Data
Idle Cost/Revenue
Unassigned Cost/Revenue
Over Driven Cost/Revenue
Direct Allocation Data
Genealogy Allocation Data
Stage
Data
Stage Data consists of:
Direct Input i.e. input
data, the starting point of your allocation e.g. in Stage 1
Assigned Input Data i.e. the
cost/revenue received from a prior stage (i.e. stage 2 and higher).
Assigned Output Data i.e. for
each stage, the data that will be assigned forward is assigned post stage data.
Reporting on this data is explained in the documentation
here:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hpm_user/ch09s03.html
Dimension
Selection
Measures
Direct
Input:
CostInput
RevenueInput
Assigned
Input (from previous stages):
CostReceivedPriorStage
RevenueReceivedPriorStage
Assigned
Output (to subsequent stages):
CostAssignedPostStage
RevenueAssignedPostStage
AllocationType
DirectAllocation
POV
One
member from each POV dimension
Stage
Business Dimensions
Any members for the stage business dimensions for the
stage you wish to see the Stage data for.
All
other Dimensions
NoMember
Idle/Unassigned/OverDriven
To view Idle, Unassigned or Overdriven Costs/Revenue,
first select which stage for which you want to view this data. If multiple Stages have unassigned/idle,
resolve the earliest first and re-run the calculation as differences in early
stages will create unassigned/idle in later stages.
Dimension
Selection
Measures
Idle:
IdleCost
IdleRevenue
Unassigned:
UnAssignedCost
UnAssignedRevenue
Overdriven:
OverDrivenCost
OverDrivenRevenue
AllocationType
DirectAllocation
POV
One
member from each POV dimension
Dimensions
in the Stage with Unassigned/ Idle/OverDriven
Cost
All the Stage Business dimensions
in the Stage with Unassigned/Idle/Overdriven.
Zoom in on each dimension
to find the individual members to find which members have Unassigned/Idle/OverDriven
data.
All
other Dimensions
NoMember
Direct
Allocation Data
Direct allocation data shows the data
received by a destination intersection from a source intersection where a
direct assignment(s) exists.
Reporting on direct allocation data is explained in the
documentation here:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hpm_user/ch09s04.html
You would select the following to report
direct allocation data
Dimension
Selection
Measures
CostReceivedPriorStage
AllocationType
DirectAllocation
POV
One
member from each POV dimension
Stage
Business Dimensions
Any members for the SOURCE stage business dimensions and
the DESTINATION stage business dimensions for the direct allocations for the stage
you wish to report on.
All
other Dimensions
NoMember
Genealogy
Allocation Data
Genealogy allocation data shows the indirect
data relationships between stages. Genealogy
calculations run in the HPCM Reporting database only.
Reporting on genealogy data is explained in the
documentation here:http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/hpm_user/ch09s05.html
Dimension
Selection
Measures
CostReceivedPriorStage
AllocationType
GenealogyAllocation
(IndirectAllocation
in 11.1.2.1 and prior versions)
POV
One
member from each POV dimension
Stage
Business Dimensions
Any stage business dimension
members from the STARTING stage in Genealogy
Any stage business dimension
members from the INTERMEDIATE stage(s) in Genealogy
Any stage business dimension
members from the ENDING stage in Genealogy
All
other Dimensions
NoMember
Notes
If you still don’t see data after checking
the above, please check the following
Check the calculation has
been run. Here are couple of indicators that might help them with that.
Note
the size of essbase cube before and after calculations ensure that a
calculation was run against the database you are examing.
Export
the essbase data to a text file to confirm that some data exists.
Examine
the date and time on task area to see when, if any, calculations were run and
what choices were used (e.g. Genealogy choices)
If data does not exist in
places where they are expecting, it could be that
No
calculations/genealogy were run
No
calculations were successfully run
The
model/data at feeder location were either absent or incompatible, resulting in
no allocation e.g no driver data.
Smartview
Invocation from HPCM
From version 11.1.2.2.350 of HPCM (this
version will be GA shortly), it is possible to directly invoke Smartview from
HPCM. There is guided navigation before the
Smartview invocation and it is then possible to see the selected value(s) in
SmartView.
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