Business Processor

Business Processor refers to a uniquely named data element of relevance which can be used to define views within the data warehouse. It typically implies aggregated information as opposed to information at a detailed granular level that is available before adequate transformations.

A Business Processor encapsulates a business logic for assigning a value to a measure as a function of observed values for other measures. Business Processors are required Measurements that require complex transformations that entail transforming data based on a function of available base measures.

Measurements that require complex transformations that entail transforming data based on a function of available base measures require Business Processors. A supervisory requirement necessitates the definition of such complex transformations with available metadata constructs.

Business Processors are metadata constructs that are used in the definition of such complex rules. Business Processors are designed to update a measure with another computed value. When a rule that is defined with a Business Processor is processed, the newly computed value is updated on the defined target.

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

BMM Processor Access
BMM Processor Advanced
BMM Processor Authorize
BMM Processor Phantom
BMM Processor Read Only
BMM Processor Write

You can access Business Processor window by expanding Unified Analytical Metadata within the tree structure of LHS menu and selecting Business Processor.

Figure 8-24 Business Processor window

This illustration shows the Business Processor window, which displays the list of pre-defined Business Processors with their Code, Short Description, Long Description, Dataset, and Measure. The window has the Search and Filter pane. You can specify the business processor details in this pane and search. The search results are displayed in this pane, you can also Add, View, Edit, Copy, and Delete the business processor from this pane.

The Business Processor window displays the list of pre-defined Business Processors with their Code, Short Description, Long Description, Dataset, and Measure. The Business Processor window allows you to generate values that are functions of base measure values. Using the metadata abstraction of a business processor, power users have the ability to design rule-based transformation to the underlying data within the data warehouse / store. You can make use of Search and Filter option to search for specific Business Processors based on Code, Short Description, or Authorized status. The Pagination option helps you to manage the view of existing Business Processors within the system.