12.6 Hierarchy

Business Hierarchy refers to Organizing Data into logical tree structure to represent the groups and relations among various levels at which measure can be viewed. A measure can be viewed at different levels depending upon the hierarchy breakdown of the Dimension Category.

Note:

For information about the Hierarchy Data Loading, see the Hierarchy Data Loading and Use and Execute the Dimension Population Process sections in the OFS AFCS Data Catalog User Guide.

Based on the role that you are mapped to, you can access read, modify or authorize Build Hierarchy. For all the roles and descriptions, see Appendix A User Privileges Management. The roles mapped to Business Hierarchy are as follows:

• BMM Hierarchy Access
• BMM Hierarchy Advanced
• BMM Hierarchy Authorize
• BMM Hierarchy Phantom
• BMM Hierarchy Read Only
• BMM Hierarchy Write

For example, consider the following structure.

Figure 12-1 Business Hierarchy

You can view the Number of Customers (Measure) across Income Group (Dimension), which is further broken down by different age groups (Hierarchy). While number of customers is a metric, it is useful when viewed based on some categorization such as customer income profile or customers having an annual income of over USD 100,000 per annum, to provide better quality of information.