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This tool allows you to quickly create a report by selecting the dimensions you want in the columns and rows, as well as a few more report details.

A custom menu is a portal-like page that summarizes a business process and links to important information used in that process. A custom menu facilitates the use of the planning/consolidation tool by providing links to input schedules, packages and reports

Journals are used to record and make adjustments to data in the database. This is typically done as part of the month-end or quarter-end process. Journals consist of a header and detail information.

Hierarchies are defined by the ParentHx property. It's possible to define more than 1 hierarchy by using ParentH2, ParentH3... The advantage of using hierarchies is that BPC automatically calculates the value of the levels above (parent members).

A dimension consists of members. If the members of a dimension are arranged in a hierarchical order, the relationship between members is described with terms such as Parent, Child, and Sibling.Dimensions are the building blocks or your application or model and consists out of dimension members. Some are mandatory such as category, entity, time, account. This also depends the application type.

Whenever you send data or launch a package, the default formulas will run as well. It is important to not put too many in default, otherwise the system will become slower.

Data Manager is a Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) module that helps you move data in to BPC, as well as copy or move data within and across applications. In addition to allowing you to move and copy data, Data Manager supports mapping and complex transformations of data.

The download function allows you to move files from the Data Files folder on the server to your local hard drive

By using business rules, specific validation accounts can be created to assure data quality checks. For instance, asset equals liabilities + equity by creating a validation account: asset-(liabilities+equity)

A setting that can be applied to an application to prevent users from sending data to the same data intersection at the same time.