1. Administering and Working with Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management
  2. Building and Calculating Models
  3. Calculating Models
  4. Understanding Points of View

Understanding Points of View

A Point of View (POV) is used to present a specific version or perspective of an application. Enterprise Profitability and Cost Management comes with the following POV dimensions. You use these dimensions to create the POVs used to calculate your models.

  • Years: Identifies the calendar years in which the data has been gathered.

  • Period: Enables you to analyze strategies and changes over time.

  • Scenario: Identifies a version of the application for a specific time period and set of conditions. You can run calculations for Actual, Plan, and Forecast scenarios.

  • Version: Maintains separate versions of the same POV to monitor the impact of changes to the application, or to track different versions of the same application. Use the Version dimension to model possible outcomes based on assumptions, or "What If" scenarios to determine best or worst case scenarios. You can run calculations for a Final version, a Working version, and up to two "What If" scenarios.

You must create a POV before you can use it to calculate models or analyze calculations. For example the dimension members for "2022", "January", "Forecast", and "Working" may exist in an application, but until you create a POV with these dimension members, you cannot calculate models or analyze calculation details against the data residing in that POV combination.

Note:

Only POVs with a status of "Draft" can have calculation control actions performed on them. See Editing a Point of View for information on how to change the POV status.