Hi all
I would like to define a parent KPI that is directly dependent on its children KPIs.
For me there are two possible usages of KPI hierarchies:
1) We want to create a hierarchy of KPI but the parent KPI is not directly derived from its children KPI. The main purpose is to create a logical hierarchy. A value, goal, status is also defined for the parent KPI. In that case since (value, goal, status) can't be calculated from the children, the weighting factor does not make sense to me.
2) Parent is directly derived from the value of its children. It should be possible to calculate value, goal and status based on value, goal and status of children
For case 2) I do not completely understand how to use the weight property. At the beginning I thought it would be sufficient to define a weight for all the children (without specifying a value, goal and status for the parent KPI). But SSAS complains if I do not define value, goal and status. If I make the value of the parent directly dependent on the children for example
kpivalue(parent) = 0.2 * kpivalue(child1) + 0.3 * kpivalue(child2) + 0.5* kpivalue(child3)
kpigoal(parent) = 0.2 * kpigoal(child1) + 0.3 * kpigoal(child2) + 0.5* kpigoal(child3)
...
In that case weight seems to be redundant. Can someone explain me how to construct a KPI hierarchy where parent KPI directly depends on children KPIs
Thank you very much.
Regards.