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Dimension-Specific Aggregation Rules

Explicitly defined dimensions in the Business Model and Mapping layer provide a mechanism to set up level-based calculations, which always calculate values at a given level. For information on level-based calculations, see Level-Based Measure Calculations.

The majority of measures have the same aggregation rule for each dimension they aggregate over. Some measures, however, can have different aggregation rules for different dimensions. For example, bank balances might be summed over individual accounts but averaged over time. The Siebel Analytics Server allows you to configure dimension-specific aggregation rules; that is, to specify one aggregation rule that applies to a given dimension and other rules that apply to other dimensions.

You need to define explicit dimensions to configure dimension-specific aggregation. For details on configuring a measure to use dimension-specific aggregation, see Setting Up Dimension-Specific Aggregate Rules.


 Siebel Analytics Server Administration Guide 
 Published: 23 June 2003