Dynamics AX 2009 - ETL for PPS

Unlike our old system Dynamics AX is more suited to the PerformancePoint
Server Planning data requirements. Our old system stored the account movements in buckets by period in a single line for a year. In order to make this PPS friendly I had to use the SQL Server 2005 function "unpivot". We also had to hard-code certain things into the extract scripts in order to make sense of it in PPS. As an example here is the code I wrote. (It was beautifully structured and formated until a pasted it into the blog).

select case when code_fscs_dsg='A' then 'ACTUAL' when
code_fscs_dsg='B' then 'BUDGET'end as ScenarioLabel,case when
Period='Amt_Perd_01' then 'P1'+' FY'+cnt_yr_fscs when Period='Amt_Perd_02'
then
'P2'+' FY'+cnt_yr_fscs when Period='Amt_Perd_03' then 'P3'+'
FY'+cnt_yr_fscs
when Period='Amt_Perd_04' then 'P4'+' FY'+cnt_yr_fscs when
Period='Amt_Perd_05'
then 'P5'+' FY'+cnt_yr_fscs when Period='Amt_Perd_06'
then 'P6'+'
FY'+cnt_yr_fscs when Period='Amt_Perd_07' then 'P7'+'
FY'+cnt_yr_fscs when
Period='Amt_Perd_08' then 'P8'+' FY'+cnt_yr_fscs when
Period='Amt_Perd_09' then
'P9'+' FY'+cnt_yr_fscs when Period='Amt_Perd_10'
then 'P10'+' FY'+cnt_yr_fscs
when Period='Amt_Perd_11' then 'P11'+'
FY'+cnt_yr_fscs when Period='Amt_Perd_12'
then 'P12'+' FY'+cnt_yr_fscs when
Period='Amt_Perd_14' then 'P12'+'
FY'+cnt_yr_fscsend as Time_MonthLabel,
right(rtrim(left(id_acct,21)),8) AS
ACCOUNTLABEL,case when
Period='Amt_Perd_14' then 'MANADJ' else 'INPUT' end as
BusinessProcessLabel,left(ID_ACCT,13) as EntityLabel,'PERIODIC' as
TimeDateView,CODE_CURN_FSCS as CurrencyLabel,case when
substring(id_acct,14,1)
>= '1' and substring(id_acct,14,1)<='2' then 'CLO' else 'NONE' end as FlowLabel,substring(id_acct,6,2) as Country,Value,null as RowId, '' as RuleID, '' as ContextID, '' as AssignmentID, GETDATE() as CreateDateTime, GETDATE() as ChangeDateTime, 0 as LoadingControlID, 200 AS [BizSystemFlag],'' as BizValidationStatus, '' as BizSystemErrorDetailsfrom (Select Id_Acct,code_fscs_dsg,cnt_yr_fscs,CODE_CURN_FSCS,fscs_curn_type, Amt_Perd_01,Amt_Perd_02,Amt_Perd_03,Amt_Perd_04,Amt_Perd_05,Amt_Perd_06,Amt_Perd_07,Amt_Perd_08,Amt_Perd_09,Amt_Perd_10,Amt_Perd_11,Amt_Perd_12,Amt_Perd_14 from iMp30_afs)punpivot (Value for Period in (Amt_Perd_01,Amt_Perd_02,Amt_Perd_03,Amt_Perd_04,Amt_Perd_05,Amt_Perd_06,Amt_Perd_07,Amt_Perd_08,Amt_Perd_09,Amt_Perd_10,Amt_Perd_11,Amt_Perd_12,Amt_Perd_14)) as Unpvt

As mentioned Dynamics is better suited as it stores the balances by company, dimensions and accounts per day. So having to unpivot the data is now unnecessary. The information is now stored in a table called LedgerBalancesDimTrans. I have had a cursory look at the AX to PPS Wizard and have it on good authority that it will take across your transactions by day. Now I hate duplicating data so have written our extract to summarize the data by Ledger Period before loading it into PPS. In order for all this to make sense one has to make sure that the descriptions captured in the Ledger Period table match those that you are going to use when setting up the PPS Calendar series. For example I have used the format P1 FY2009 in PPS and must type this into the Period description on the table LedgerPeriod in Dynamics. Now my extract will bring across movement by period in the format that I require for PPS. There is subsequent conversions to id's etc but I will not get into that now. Below is the much shortened and simpler extract.

SELECT A.DATAAREAID AS DATAAREAID, A.DIMENSION AS DIMENSION, A.ACCOUNTNUM AS ACCOUNTNUM, P.COMMENTARIES AS PERIOD, SUM(A.DEBITMST+A.CREDITMST) AS VALUEFROM LEDGERBALANCESDIMTRANS A JOIN DBO.LEDGERPERIOD PON A.DATAAREAID=P.DATAAREAID AND A.PERIODCODE=P.PERIODCODE AND A.TRANSDATE BETWEEN P.PERIODSTART AND P.PERIODEND WHERE P.PERIODSTART>='2008-03-30'GROUP BY A.DATAAREAID, A.DIMENSION, A.ACCOUNTNUM, P.COMMENTARIESORDER BY A.DATAAREAID, A.DIMENSION, A.ACCOUNTNUM, P.COMMENTARIES

This was also laid out in an orderly fashion but it appears that the blog editor does not respect my line feeds and tabs. I think you will agree that Dynamics AX 2009 lends itself to easy integration with PPS Planning.

- Paul Steynberg