Overview of Business Case

Business Case is a synthetic dimension that can be used for both database exporting and scenario rollups. This enables you to map the mix–and–match scenario data from the scenario rollup to a single dimension; as a result you can roll-up the data when exported to the Planning or Essbase environment without any errors.

When rolling up a Business Case, various scenarios are contributed to the scenario rollup by the different models being rolled up. When exporting values to a database, the data to export can be specified either by scenario dimension or business case dimension, depending on the setup of your export instructions.

After scenario rollup, if you want to automatically export the data to an external database, then we export the Business Case dimension instead of the Scenario dimension. As a result, reporting on the external database can display the values that contributed to the scenario rollup for a particular Business Case. It is an easy and intuitive way to define a scenario rollup with mix–and–match functionality that can be exported to an external database in the format that database will expect.