BFC Extended Analytics or Cube Designer

Hello
We're building a business case on the benefits on using Extended Analytics over the reporting capabilities of BFC itself. Anybody has a high-level document or presentation that outlines the functionalities of the application that he/she would like to share.
Thanks beforehand.
Ashwin

Hi Deepesh,
The same applies to Star Schemas, the main difference being that the star schema itself (the fact and dimension tables) are also stored in the relational DB.
1. Yes, the member will be present, but I believe it will appear as unselected (unless of course you have selected your members by some filter or characteristic and this new value is within that selection)
2. This is a tricky one.
If you introduce a new dimension (which can only be a user-defined dimension and therefore you need dimensional analysis) it depends what was done with 'old' data.
In Designer, the new dimension will be visible, but if you are using multi measures, you would need to select this new dimension in the "Dimensional Analysis" tab.
You would now be in a situation where you have a new measure and you would as a first step you would need to deploy. Now, if in BFC you introduced this new dimension in (for example) 2014.04, all your data prior to this period would not have any values for this DA.
In the cube this means that if you selected this new measure, you would not see any data for 2014.03, 2014.02 etc.
This means the end-user needs to select both measures in the report- and this can be quite confusing. You can use 'single measure' mode to avoid this
3. If you want to use this new characteristic as a hierarchy, you would need to select it in the hierarchy tab and re-deploy
Thanks
Marc

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