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Best Practices for SAP BI using DB2 9 for z/OS - IBM Redbooks

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12.5 Hierarchies<br />

<strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong> allows the definition of hierarchies on InfoObjects. Hierarchies can be<br />

unbalanced, unleveled, and also time-dependent. Figure 12-4 shows an example<br />

of a sales hierarchy that is organized by region.<br />

Hierarchies can be used <strong>for</strong> reporting. For example, with a structure such as that<br />

shown in Figure 12-4, you could retrieve the total sales. Or you could retrieve<br />

only the sales result of a particular branch of the sales organization, such as<br />

North America. With <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>BI</strong>, unleveled or dynamic hierarchies are stored as<br />

parent-child lists.<br />

US<br />

North<br />

America<br />

Canada<br />

East West<br />

Figure 12-4 Sales hierarchy<br />

WW Sales<br />

Europe<br />

The parent-child list that corresponds to Figure 12-4 is shown in Table 12-1.<br />

Table 12-1 Parent-child list of example sales hierarchy<br />

Predecessor Successor<br />

WW Sales Asia and Pacific<br />

WW Sales North America<br />

North America Canada<br />

North America US<br />

US West<br />

US East<br />

Asia &<br />

Pacific<br />

East Central<br />

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