Getting Started with PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine

This chapter provides an overview of PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine and discusses PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine implementation.

PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine Overview

PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine comprises a calculation engine plus several PeopleTools features that enable application developers to define both the calculation rules and the display of calculated data within PeopleSoft applications for the purposes of multidimensional reporting, data editing, and analysis.

Specifically, application developers create analytic models to define the rules that are used to calculate data. Application developers also create PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture pages with analytic grids to display the data within PeopleSoft applications. Within the application, a PeopleSoft Pure Internet Architecture page with an analytic grid may be referred to as an interactive report. End users view, analyze, and make changes to analytic model data. When end users save their changes, PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine recalculates the data and sends the calculated data to the application database.

PeopleSoft Analytic Calculation Engine Implementation

The functionality to create your own analytic models is delivered as part of standard PeopleSoft PeopleTools that are provided with all PeopleSoft products. However, you must complete these activities before you can create analytic models:

Step	Reference
Install PeopleTools	See Enterprise PeopleTools Installation Guide for your database platform.
Install the database that you want to use with your application.	See the installation documentation for your database platform.
Configure the application server.	See Using the PSADMIN Utility.
Enable the appropriate number of analytic server instances.	See Configuring and Starting Analytic Servers.
Establish a user profile that gives you access to PeopleSoft Application Designer and any other processes that you will use.	See Enterprise PeopleTools 8.49 PeopleBook: Security Administration.
Configure the application for which you are creating or changing an analytic model.	The appropriate PeopleBook for your application.