Summary:
This article details some common terminology that may be used when talking about the Solver product.
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Terminology |
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| Customer | The "parent" to all tenants that your organization has purchased. |  |
| Tenant | An "environment" that consists of data and reports. A company can have multiple tenants (ex: dev and prod) that fall under one Customer. |  |
| DW | Acronym of Data Warehouse. Can refer to the Data Warehouse menu or the SQL database. |  |
| DWM | Acronym of Data Warehouse Manager. | Used interchangeably with DW |
| RD | Acronym for Report Designer. | |
| Reporting |
The act of reporting off transactional numbers. This can be running a report in RD or running a report in the web interface. |
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| Cloud | Reference to the Solver Cloud Environment. | |
| PH | Acronym for Private Host. | |
| 5x | Another terminology for Cloud OR Private Host. | |
| Report | An unexecuted Solver Report that can be run to produce financial numbers. | |
| Integration Package |
Integration packages create a link from the source system database to what is viewed in Report Designer and the numbers that come into the application. Sometimes referred to as "meta" or "meta data" |
Reference this article on Integration packages |
| Integrations |
The process of loading data from a source ERP system into Solver. Solver > Data Warehouse > Integrations SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is another common integration method |
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| Connectors | A Solver product allowing you to connect supported source systems to the Solver. | Getting Started Guides found here. |
| Budget Template | A Report that can save data back to the Solver database. Also referred to as Input Templates or Planning Templates. | |
| Modules | Transactional information stored in the DW or ERP and available in Report Designer for reporting. |  |
| Factset |
A specific set of transactional information.
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| Dimension |
A property of the transactional data that will never change. Created in the DW and available for Reporting. |
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| Design Mode | Within RD, being on the Design Tab. Modifications can be made to the template while in this mode. |  |
| Run Mode | Within RD, being on the Run tab. The report can be run from this mode. |  |
| Execution Time | The amount of time it takes to run a report while the Cancel button is still active. |  |
| Rendering Time | The time from after the Cancel button becomes inactive to when the report completes. |  |
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Report Execution Time |
The total time it takes to run a report, Execution + Rendering Time. |  |
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