2. Oracle Essbase: Scenario and What-If Modeling Made Simple
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Ashish Jain Product Manager Oracle Analytics Cloud October 23, 2018
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4. Program Agenda 1
Set-Up Lab 1: Understanding Sandboxes Lab 2: Incentive compensation Use Case 2 3
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5. Program Agenda with Highlight1
Setup Lab 1: Understanding Sandboxes Lab 2: Incentive compensation Use Case 2 3
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6. Setup Download the Lab Guide from the following location
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7. Program Agenda with Highlight1
Setup Lab 1: Understanding Sandboxes Lab 2: Incentive compensation Use Case 2 3
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8. Understand Sandboxes
Understanding the Scenario Management and Sandboxing features offered.
Understand the light weight nature of the Sandboxes created which use minimal memory footprint.
Also look at how sandboxes provide a private work area for users to perform their own analysis.
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9. Program Agenda with Highlight1
Setup Lab 1: Understanding Sandboxes Lab 2: Incentive compensation Use Case 2 3
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10. Incentive Compensation Use Case
In this use case you will play the role of a sales executive to forecast sales for the next financial year and then determine the right commission amounts that can be paid out to be within determined limits of the commission target amount allocated.
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11. Cube Overview Dimensions Data Calc Script
Measures: commission $, commission variance and Discount %, etc.
Year: Fiscal years – 2017 &
Participants: the sales force
Compensation Plan: list of plans for compensation “Channel Partner”
Performance Measure: The measure used to track sales. In this case you are tracking “All Product Sales”
Data
All Sales data for (Data.Source tab)
Initial data for the ranges of discount % and Revenue, the target commission amount available for the year. (Data.Initial tab)
Data rates for the matrix of discount % and revenue that determines the % of commission to be paid to the sales force on a sale done. (Data.Rates tab)
Calc Script
Forecast: used to forecast the sales of future year based on prior year sales.
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12. What-If Analysis Drivers Goal for 2018 Sales Revenue Discount percent
Achieve “Commission Var” within 5%
“Commission Var” = “Commission $” – “Commission Target”
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