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tracked. Another example is a measure that takes that variance and compares it to the plan
value to produce a percent of plan measure.
By being built-in, your report authors do not need to create these expressions. This can save
their time and the time of users who might want to create these expressions. Also, because
they are already there, the report authors do not need to re-create a measure expression that
they use in multiple reports.
Because it exists in only one place, the risk of an expression being incorrectly created in one
report is removed. There is only one risk point. Enforcing commonality can reduce
misunderstanding and misinterpretation of information. In addition, because it is built-in, ...