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Solver Terminology

Peter from Solver Support
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Overview

This article will list some common terminology that may be used when talking about the Solver product. 

Terminology Description Additional Info
Company The "parent" to all tenants that your organization has purchased. mceclip0.png
Tenant An "environment" that consists of data and reports. A company can have multiple tenants (ex: dev and prod) that fall under one Company mceclip1.png
DW Acronym of Data Warehouse. Can refer to the Data Warehouse menu or the SQL database mceclip1.png
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
  • Running a report in the web interface
  
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 ran and produce financial numbers  
Integration Package

Integration packages create a link from the source system database to what is viewed in Report Designer; and ultimately 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  
Modules Transactional information stored in the DW or ERP and available in Report Designer for reporting.  mceclip7.png
Factset

A specific set of transactional information.

  • Multiple factsets can be grouped into one Module. 
  • This is set by Solver and cannot be modified. 
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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 runMode.png
Run Mode Within RD, being on the Run tab runMode2.png
Execution Time The amount of time it takes to run a report while the Cancel button is still active.  mceclip2.png
Rendering Time The time from after the Cancel button becomes inactive to when the report completes.  mceclip4.png

Report Execution Time

 The total time it takes to run a report, Execution + Rendering Time.  mceclip3.png

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