Planning Web Service

Administration includes the configuration and security components. The configuration component handles Planning Server configuration setting changes. The security side handles user creation, security role assignments, business role assignments, and security role generation in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services databases.

The Metadata Manager is responsible for the creation of the Planning Application, Planning Staging, and Planning Outbound Databases. It handles Planning Server metadata access including predefined share library access, creation of Planning business objects, and maintenance. It handles deployment of model sites and rules to SQL Server and Analysis Services.

This component works with the application database and Analysis Services database. Metadata Manager uses the .NET Framework, ADO.NET, and ADOMD.NET.

The Data Integration component handles data loading and validation. "Data loading" includes fact, dimension, and hierarchy data loading.

This component also handles model associations. These associations include dimension scoping and mapping, dimension member mapping, simple aggregation, and fact data movement.

The Data Integration component prepares outbound data for use by an external team. It supports leveraging existing metadata about multidimensional structure and creates reference data directly from SQL Server sources to Planning Server.

The Data Integration component works with the application database, staging database, and the outbound database. It uses the .NET Framework and ADO.NET.

The Financial Intelligence component of Planning Web Service allows integration of calculations with the business process. It provides prepackaged common calculations, such as opening/closing balance calculations and other common chart-of-account calculations. It also provides rule templates, including Variance, Allocation/spreading, Seeding, and Consolidation.

This component handles the following:

• The definition, management, and deployment of rules and rule sets

• Execution of rules

• Financial consolidations

• Currency conversions

• Intercompany reconciliations

• Shares ownership and control calculations

The Financial Intelligence component works with the application database and Analysis Services database. It uses the .NET Framework, ADO.NET, and ADOMD.NET.

The Data Manager component of Planning Process Service handles requests to create definitions and instances of workflow objects such as cycles, assignments, and jobs. Data Manager works with the application database and uses the service database to dispatch the workflow requests using SQL Server Service Broker. It uses the .NET Framework and ADO.NET.

This topic is included in the following downloadable book for easier reading and printing:

• Planning Server Planning and Architecture Guide for PerformancePoint Server 2007

See the full list of available books at Downloadable content for PerformancePoint Planning Server.