General Ledger budget facts have been moved and simplified

For customers upgrading to Business IntelligenceBusiness Intelligence, often referred to as BI, refers to the skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making. This is also the name of the Pronto Xi BI module. version 750, note that all numbered budget facts have been moved to the Obsolete GL Facts folder in the Master Chart and General Ledger (Analytics) namespaces in the General Ledger packageA subset of data objects for a project. It is typically a sub-set of a model (or can be the entire model) and is specifically created for publishing to the Pronto Xi Business Intelligence server. Packages provide data, modelled simply for end-users, for creating reports, analyses, and ad hoc queries. Within Pronto Xi Business Intelligence we have two distinct types of packages, with different content and purpose: Reporting packages Analytics packages.

This change has been made to simplify the General Ledger package, and to make reportA set of data deliberately laid out to communicate business information. Depending on the context, 'report' may refer to report specification or report output. Report (more precisely, report specification) is the generic term for the objects created or edited in Cognos Analytics. Pronto Xi Business Intelligence offers a suite of standard reports. authoring easier to learn and implement.

If you have existing reports that use these budget facts, you do not need to make any changes.

In summary, all numbered (0 - 9) budget facts have been relocated into an Obsolete GL Facts folder in each of their namespaces.

For the Master Chart namespaceNamespaces uniquely identify query items, query subjects, and so on. You import different databases into separate namespaces to avoid duplicate names., the GL Facts folder has been rearranged. The pre-750 version is shown in the left image, and the 750 version on the right.

For the General Ledger (Analytics) namespace, the Facts, Quantity Facts, and Base Facts facts folders have been rearranged to include an Obsolete GL Facts folder. The pre-750 version is shown in the left image, and the 750 version on the right.