Level-Based Measure Calculations Example


Level-Based Measure Calculations Example
A level-based measure is a column whose values are always calculated to a specific level of aggregation. For example, a company might want to measure its revenue based on the country, based on the region, and based on the city. You can set up columns to measure CountryRevenue, RegionRevenue, and CityRevenue.
The measure AllProductRevenue is an example of a level-based measure at the Grand Total level. Level-based measures allow a single query to return data at multiple levels of aggregation. They are also useful in creating share measures, that are calculated by taking some measure and dividing it by a level-based measure to calculate a percentage. For example, you can divide salesperson revenue by regional revenue to calculate the share of the regional revenue each salesperson generates.
To set up these calculations, you need to build a dimensional hierarchy in your repository that contains the levels Grandtotal, Country, Region, and City. This hierarchy will contain the metadata that defines a one-to-many relationship between Country and Region and a one-to-many relationship between Region and City. For each country, there are many regions but each region is in only one country. Similarly, for each region, there are many cities but each city is in only one region.
Next, you need to create three logical columns (CountryRevenue, RegionRevenue, and CityRevenue). Each of these columns uses the logical column Revenue as its source. The Revenue column has a default aggregation rule of SUM and has sources in the underlying databases.
You then drag the CountryRevenue, RegionRevenue, and CityRevenue columns into the Country, Region, and City levels, respectively. Each query that requests one of these columns will return the revenue aggregated to its associated level.
Figure 13 shows what the business model in the Business Model and Mapping layer would look like for this example.

Figure 13. Example Business Model in the Business Model and Mapping Layer

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