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Revenue Management Subject Areas, Folders, and Attributes

To create real-time analyses for Revenue Management, you should be familiar with subject areas, folders, and attributes.

Subject Areas

To create an analysis, you begin by selecting a subject area. Then open folders within the subject area to find the columns to include in your analysis.

Subject areas are based on a business object or fact. Revenue Management provides two specific subject areas:

  • Revenue Management - Customer Contracts Real Time

  • Revenue Management - Standalone Selling Price Real Time

For example, to create an analysis of your standalone selling prices, you begin by selecting the Revenue Management - Standalone Selling Price Real Time subject area.

Folders

Each subject area has one fact folder and a number of dimension folders. Fact folders contain attributes that can be measured, meaning that they are numeric values like average standalone selling price and unit standalone selling price. Fact folders are usually named after the subject area. Dimension folders contain attribute and hierarchical columns like standalone selling price type, unit of measure and standalone selling price status.

Some folders appear in more than one subject area. These are referred to as common folders or common dimensions.

Each folder within a subject area may have a different level of granularity. For example:

  • The Pricing Dimensions folder has various pricing dimension attributes.

  • The Standalone Selling Price folder contains subfolders and attributes within the Standalone Selling Price Amounts and Standalone Selling Price Details subfolders.

Attributes

Finally, each dimension folder contains attributes (columns), such as Pricing Dimension Structure Instance Name, Tolerance Range Coverage and Minimum Line Count.

This figure illustrates the structure of subject areas, folders, and facts:

This figure shows a screenshot of the Revenue Management - Standalone Selling Price Real Time subject area.

The figure shows the following components:

  • Subject area: Revenue Management - Standalone Selling Price Real Time

  • Dimension - Presentation Folder: Standalone Selling Price

  • Fact - Presentation Folder: Standalone Selling Price Amounts

  • Fact - Measures: Average SSP, Count of Lines within SSP Tolerance, Highest SSP, Line Count, Lowest SSP, Percentage of Lines Within SSP Tolerance, Required Tolerance Range Coverage Percentage, SSP Tolerance High Percent, SSP Tolerance Low Percentage, Standard Deviation, Total Amount, Total Quantity, Unit SSP