Creating Decomposition Trees in PerformancePoint

OverviewDecomposition Is Not Just For GardnersAny MorePerformancePoint has a new analysis tool called aDecomposition Tree, and it is pretty cool. It allowsyou to drill from your dashboards directly into ananalysis tree. From here you are able to expand yourdata on any of the measures that are defined on theanalysis cube to see what is making up the data.In this example we will quickly show how you can usethis in a real example to analyze data. © 2011 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Step 1Create The Decomposition TreeTo create a Decomposition Tree, just right-mouse-click on any data in the PerformancePoint dashboard.In the context menu, there will be an option to createthe Decomposition Tree. © 2011 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Step 1Create The Decomposition TreeThis will open up a new window showing the node ofdata that you just inquired on. If you click on thenode (don’t right-mouse-click) then it will show youall of the dimensions that you can drill through. © 2011 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Step 1Create The Decomposition TreeWhen you select the dimension group, all of theavailable dimensions will show up. Just select the onethat you want to analyze the data on. © 2011 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Extra CreditRecomposing the DataRecomposing is probably not the right term, but whileyou are in the decomposition view, at any time youcan convert the data back into a grid, or graph. © 2011 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

ResultGraphs However You LikeNow that the data is in a graph, you can tweak theview however you like.If you even want to, you can pick the data points andcreate a new Decomposition Tree… © 2011 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Author Information Murray Fife Senior Solutions Consultant Junction Solutions Ph: (770) 674-5573 E-mail: mfife@junctionsolutions.com Twitter: @murrayfife SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/murrayfife © 2011 Copyright Junction Solutions. All rights reserved.

Creating Decomposition Trees in PerformancePoint

by Murray Fife on Nov 03, 2011

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