148 • Developing Essbase Applications: Advanced Techniques for Finance and IT Professionals
While it is not a calculation function, per se, I will quickly mention Variance
Reporting. Variance Reporting (the ability to tag Expense Items in the Accounts
Dimension and have the variance between Actual and Budget represented appropriately
to the report consumer) is a very desirable feature for a lot of corporations with respect
to their nancial reporting. is feature cannot be used with ASO cubes.
Another consideration is whether you need or want to utilize Custom-Dened
Functions (CDFs) or an equally new function, Custom-Dened Macros (CDMs), in your
Essbase cube. e ability to create CDFs was introduced early in Version 9 of Essbase.
If you ...