Comparison

Use

The Comparison chart compares different organizational units such as business units, projects, customer groups, or sales teams. Comparing is also useful for auditing targets. Since targets change over time, this analysis helps set new targets in new areas or new levels in the organization.

Features

The Comparison chart has these features:

• The Comparison chart displays dimension members over a period of time for a KPI. The Comparison chart compares results for the actual values of the KPI across a dimension's members.

  If you uncovered business problems using the Drill report, you can further analyze them here to see overall direction relative to other parts of the organization. While the Drill report shows a single slice in time across the organization, the Comparison chart shows trends for multiple members of the organization.

• You can drill down on a charted member. The chart is updated to display the next lower level series members from the selected member.

• You can drill up on a charted member.

• You can change the focus dimension. The Total member of the dimension is displayed by default.

• You can create a report using Create Associated Report.

• You can specify graph options, such as graph type, the minimum value to chart, the maximum value to chart, and the scale at which to display values. You can also add a label along the Y axis. You can control the display of horizontal grid lines, vertical grid lines, and a chart legend.

Activities

To display the Comparison chart, click the Comparison link in the KPI Details view.