Are you considering HyperModel for your ecosystem, or have you recently deployed it? Fantastic! We've compiled a shortlist of the top five tips to help make kicking off your HyperModel experience as smooth as possible.
Check out these top 5 tips to improving your experience:
1. Recognize That the Hyperblock Has Not Changed
- With HyperModels, only model/workspace sizes and the available memory are increased.
- The Hyperblock engine remains the same, meaning:
- Calculation performance is the same. HyperModel performance is dependent on modeling best practices and how the model is constructed.
- Hyperblock dictates the maximum block cell count.
- The following functions maintain the same limit set of 50 million cells, which may be easier to reach with HyperModels:
- ISFIRSTOCCURRENCE
- RANK
- RANKCUMULATE
2. Embrace Sparsity
- Sparse modules are not inefficient when it comes to calculations. The Anaplan Hyperblock engine is designed to work with multi-dimensional structures. At its heart, the Directed Acyclic Graph (D.A.G.) indexes data to calculate only what is needed when upstream data points have changed.
- Model size can often be reduced with increased multi-dimensionality by reducing list sizes. For example, this could apply to transactional lists that include dates. For more information, see Data Hubs: Purpose and Peak Performance.
Read The Truth About Sparsity: Part 1 for additional information about sparsity.
3. Understand the Effects of Text
For more information, see Data Hubs: Purpose and Peak Performance - Anaplan Community.
4. Understand Top-Level Summary
- Try to reduce using summaries and top-level summaries to maintain optimal HyperModel performance. The increased scale with HyperModels means there's more data to aggregate, which may result in slower summary calculations.
- If a summary is only needed on one or two dimensions in a multi-dimensional line item, we recommend turning off the summary and creating a new line item for that specific summary.
5. Test and Optimize
- Do it yourself: Optimize models with best practices by leveraging the Planual, PLANS, and D.I.S.C.O.
- Leverage our packaged services and reach out to your account team for more information:
- Model optimization.
- Model concurrency testing.
Are you ready to scale up on HyperModel? Or, are you already leveraging it?
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