Working Day Metric

Summary

Analyzing various statistics against working days

Content

We recently implemented two OAC Essbase cubes, 1 ASO and 1 BSO. Within the BSO cube, our dense dimensions are Account and Period, with the sparse dimensions as Year, Scenario, Version, Entity, Product, Client, and LOB (line of business). A useful metric for us is the concept of "Days Adjusting" some statistics to normalize the effect of differing working days across months (eg Mar19 had 21 working days while Apr19 had 22). We created a Business Day member in the account dimension, loaded to "No Product", "No Client", "No LOB", etc. Then, we developed various Days Adjusted members with stored