Consolidation taking time for Specific POV

Question

When users are running Consol for the following Entity Structure with Entity A and Contribution Total in POV
- Entity A
Entity B
Entity C
Entity D
(Here B is Child of A and C is child of B and D is child of C)
It takes around 16 min
however when POV is changed to Entity B and Contribution Total
It takes 4 min . Can anyone let me know why there can be such huge difference in consol timing with change in POV.
Edited by: Mugdha Shidhore on May 24, 2012 8:18 PM
Edited by: Mugdha Shidhore on May 24, 2012 8:23 PM

Answer 1

The first thing to understand is that running a consolidation on the Contribution Total member not only consolidates data to that entity it also consolidates data to the <Entity Currency> member of the parent of that entity which means that the siblings of that entity would also be consolidated. In your example, by selecting Contribution Total on Entity A you would consolidate all data to the parent of Entity A include any siblings of Entity A. You have not indicated if Entity A has any siblings.
The difference in your consolidation time could, therefore, be explained by the parent of Entity A having a much larger number of descendants than the number of descendants of just Entity A.
If you only wanted to consolidate data only up to Entity A then you should choose <Entity Currency> or <Entity Curr Total> of Entity A. That should give you a clearer picture of the difference in consolidation times.
There are also other possibilities such as rules that only run on certain entities which could also be related.
Brian Maguire