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Convert Active Reports to Data Mart
You may have built your presentation-quality reports using PACE Active reports. Now that Data Mart is available as an information delivery tool, should you consider converting existing reports to source data against the Mart? This is a complex question, and involves several considerations discussed in the following sections.
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Each Advanced report built with underlying OLAP reports has a list of field attributes associated with it. Advanced reports often involve one or more individual field rules for each underlying OLAP report. Standardization and re-use of field attributes and field rules is possible, but many organizations find that it is all too easy to duplicate fields. Data Mart, by contrast, encourages business definition standardization and sharing of field attributes since duplication of data fields is much more easily recognizable in the Mart and thus avoidable.
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Preserve Advanced Report Functionality
You will not lose the benefits of using Advanced reports under a conversion to Data Mart. You can still schedule Active reports built against the Mart to send to Portal, and still develop them as a Client reporting batch. Report ordering functionality and passing of parameters is the same as when actual OLAP reports underly the Advanced report.
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Data Mart encourages standardization of field definitions and helps reduce unintended duplication of field attributes that sometimes accompanies OLAP report development. See “Field Standardization” for additional information.