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Chris Barbieri
Personal Background
Established HFM performance tuning techniques and
statistics widely used today
4+ years as Sr. Product Issues Manager at Hyperion
2001 HFM launch team 2001
Certified HFM, Hyperion Enterprise
B.S. Finance & Accounting, Boston College
MBA, Babson College
Established HFM Performance Tuning Lab at Ranzal
Vice President of worlds largest HFM practice
Foundation of Performance
Focus first on single user
Metadata design as it
impacts performance
Volume of members
Impact of structures
Data
Content
Density
Rules
Environment
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Metadata
User controlled
5. Entity
6. Account
7. ICP
8. Scenario
System
4. Value dimension,
includes currencies
User defined
Custom 1
10. Custom 2
11. Custom 3
12. Custom 4
(*and more customs 11.1.2.2)
9.
Application Profile
Year
No inherent impact on performance
Can be increased after the application is built
Impacts database table volume
Period
Base periods comprise column structure of every table,
whether you use them or not
Avoid weekly profiles unless it is key to your entire
applications design
Daily is inadvisable
View
No impact, but only YTD is stored
Other views are on-the-fly derivations
System Dimension
Value Dimension
Can not directly modify this
<Entity Currency> points to entitys default currency
<Parent Currency> points to default currency of the entitys parent
Currencies
Dont add currencies you arent using
Normally translate from the entitys currency only into its parents
currency
Beware of non-default translations
ICP
Hidden dimension
Scenario
Number of tables
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6- Net Income
4- Net Income
5- EBIT
3- Optg Income
2- Gross Margin
4- Optg Income
1- Sales
3- Gross Profit
2- Gross Margin
1- Sales
Avoid:
Employees
Detailed Products
Anything that is very dynamic, changing greatly from year to
year
One to one relationship with the entities
base
+1 Std Deviation
Accounts
1,444
ICP Accounts With Plug
17
Accounts With Data Audit
32
Consolidation Rules
45%
OrgBy Period
16%
Currencies
25
Custom1
181
Custom2
72
Custom3
46
Custom4
19
Entity Hierarchies
4
Entities (unique)
672
ICP Members
208
Scenarios
12
Process Management
Scenarios
Scenarios Using Data Audit
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High
2,915
288
1,358
7,491
2,273
7,490
57
3,219
2,374
909
182
12
4,352
1,160
29
7
150
23,897
20,484
5,681
1,199
44
21,199
7,770
81
37
11
78
Data
Whats a Subcube?
HFM data structure
Database tables stored by
Each record contains all periods for a [Year]
All records for a subcube are loaded into memory together
Parent subcube,
stored in DCN tables
Currency
subcubes, stored in
DCE tables
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Not so problematic:
Lots of accounts
Lots of custom members
Smart View
Subcubes impact server performance
Cell volume impacts bandwidth
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Data Design
Metadata volume is interesting, but its
how you
Density
Content
Specifically: zeros
Tiny numbers
Invalid Records
How-To
Pros
Cons
Data
Extract
FreeLRU
Good sense of
average cube, easy to
monitor monthly
growth
Cant identify
individual cubes,
harder to understand
Database
Analysis
Doesnt count
dynamic members,
includes invalid
records
1,369
NumDataRecordsInRAM
NumRecordsInLargestCube
Records per cube
Metadata efficiency
9,426
Min
72
Max
51,840
167,085
2,508
593,924
1,352
15,537
24
91,418
3.4%
12.2%
0.3%
39.7%
Consolidated 19.6%
Calculated 9.4%
Loaded 0.9%
Total in hierarchy
5,571
Base of hierarchy
2,980
Average
Entity 178
records
Base Entity
input 91
records
Top Entity
16,829 records
Base Entity
calculated 153
records
Zeros Monthly
Monthly
%
Growth
153,826
Loaded Records
534,239
Loaded + Calculated
Records
Consolidated
Records
349,360
717,570
62,090
142,432
4.3%
3.3%
22.5%
2.7%
8.7%
3.2%
Rules
Growth
2.0
Invalid Records
Type 1: Orphaned records from metadata that has
been deleted
Member is removed from dimension_Item table, but not
from the data tables
These can be removed by Database > Delete Invalid
Records
Company
11,321
11,321
2,939
2,939
14,260
2
3
10
15
213,900
175
37,432,500
120
4,284
Rules Timing
900
800
2.000
700
1.500
500
400
1.000
Seconds
Records
600
300
200
0.500
100
-
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
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FR .FR _N B M
_R E GION S .U S
U S C A .U S
E ME A .D E
A P .C N
C Z .C Z_N B M
E _N B M.83704
R _N B M.83519
TH .83899
U S .U S GO
U S .80808
B R .83545
0.83820_1801
OTH A P .82828
0.83820_1851
E ME A .B E
LA .B R
U S .80820
A R .83856
S econds
50,000
elapsed
totalrecords
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
2.0
4.0
10.0
Consolidation Rules = R
Ideal for simple applications that do not need
consolidation rules
Skips writing [Proportion] to the database
Smaller DCN tables
If no [Elimination], [Parent Adjs] or [Contribution Adjs]
the DCN tables wont even exist
Reference
Application
0:04:19
Full Rules
0:03:36
Blank Rules
0:02:53
0:02:10
Target
0:01:26
0:00:43
0:00:00
physical physical virtual
virtual
virtual
virtual
virtual
virtual
virtual
C: Dev
T-61
laptop
E: non- F: prod
prod
T-410
laptop
G: Dev
H: Dev H: prod
B: Dev
K: FIT
D: QA
virtual
virtual
I: prod
Chris Barbieri
cbarbieri@ranzal.com
Needham, MA
USA
+1.617.480.6173
www.ranzal.com
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