Calculation Scheduling

You can schedule to run the business context calculations periodically. This means that the values, statuses, trends, and scores of the KPIs associated with the business context are calculated and the Scorecards and components in the Dashboard reflect these calculations and results. You can specify how to recalculate all results for the selected universe/context from the selected date (up to one year back) till the current date.

ClosedTo access:

Select the relevant KPI, click the Calculation options button, and select the option, in the Active KPI pane.

ClosedHow does it work?

At the scheduled time, the following processes take place:

  • The calculations of the KPIs associated with the business context are performed for the current period.
  • The Objectives including these KPIs are also calculated for the current period.
  • The Scorecards and components that include these KPIs are refreshed when you open the Dashboard.

ClosedSchedule a business context calculation

In this section, you will learn how to schedule an automatic context calculation, so the calculation runs automatically according to your configuration and the data that is presented in the Dashboard is the latest data.

The calculation engine will now run automatically according to your settings.

  1. Click the Studio tab.
  2. In the Active KPIs pane, select the relevant KPI, click the Calculation options button, and select the option.

    Note that you schedule the calculation per Business Context.

  3. In the Business Context Calculation Scheduling dialog box, select the relevant business context in the drop down Business Context list, and in the Schedule details area, enter the day and time when you want to run the scheduled calculation. Click Save.

    You can select additional Business Contexts and schedule their calculation run in the same way. 

  4. Once the calculations are scheduled, click Save to save the configurations.

At the scheduled time, the following processes take place:

  • The calculations of the KPIs associated with the business context are performed for the current period.
  • The Objectives including these KPIs are also calculated for the current period.
  • The Scorecards and components that include these KPIs are refreshed when you open the Dashboard.

Movie: To display the relevant movie, open the ITBA application, click Help in the top right corner of the application main page and select the Movies option. Select the relevant movie. For details, see Access Movies.

ClosedBusiness Context Calculation Scheduling Dialog Box

User interface elements are described below (unlabeled elements are shown in angle brackets):

UI Element

Description

Business context

In the list of business contexts, select the business context for which you want to schedule the calculations.

Note Contexts that have not been assigned a calculation schedule have a icon. Their KPIs have not been calculated.

The Schedule details area is displayed as follows:

Schedule details

Select the days of the week when you want to perform the business context calculations.

Note  

If you configure the triggering of the same Business Context from the calculation scheduler in the STUDIO, or in the Engine Automatic Calculation Settings dialog box in Content Flow Management, there could be a situation when the engine tries to calculate the same Business Context at the same time. When the triggering is manual, the system notifies you that the calculation of this business context is running and to try again later. When the scheduling is automatically triggered, the engine runs the calculation of the Business Context only after the previous was run ended.

For details, see Data Management - Run ETL - Content Flow Management

Calculation start time

Enter the time when you want to start the business context calculation.

Last run The date and time when the last calculation was performed.
Next run The date and time when the next calculation is to be performed.