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Contributor Allocation Cubes

Remember me whining about absence of allocation cubes with elist in Contributor? Well, I kinda remembered the trivial solution. I wanted dynamic profiling of expenses, for example. Like profiling Year Summs on Linear driver, 4 4 5 or smth like that. And this choice should be done by user “on flight”, in the application. Like [...]

Posted 08 December 2006 † ykud § cognos § ep cookbook ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Send Data and Access Manager

After making “Send Data” macro via ASP we’ve logically stepped on the problem of restricting this macro usage. Logically thinking this macro should be executed only after all data is entered in application (in other variants, data recipients will never be sure that they have the latest variant possible). That’s what I call coordinator problem [...]

Posted 13 October 2006 † ykud § cognos § ep cookbook ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

More on Contrib APs.

It’s more a list of demands for Cognos We need allocation cubes with an elist. There is no other way round the idea of dynamic Contributor applications. Dynamic as Analyst ones — by changing allocations in cube, you change data flow. Ain’t that analytic? What if we use footage as driver for lease costs? Or, [...]

Posted 11 October 2006 † ykud § cognos § large dimensions ‡ Comments (4) ° Tagged: , ,

Some thoughts on new EP implementation concept.

Widely awaiten (by me ) Analyst refactoring did not happen. The problem of having a non-scalable yet very comfortable tool for creating calculation models and analyzing was solved not by enhancing the tool. It was solved by marketing, not R&D. Now Analyst is a “developer tool” and all budgeting process should go through a list [...]

Posted 09 October 2006 † ykud § cognos ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,