viswaraju wrote:
I got this term through an interview, the requirement is for a position who have experience on TM1 with BI.
I came to know this term, even i never heard about it.That s why i posted it.
It's not exactly unknown for interviewers to either:
(a) Not know what the h3ll they're talking about, but to throw in plausible-sounding buzz-words to give the impression that they're gurus;
(b) Throw in bogus technical terms to see who will admit that they aren't familiar with them and possibly ask for clarification, and who will try to bluff their way through them; and / or
(c) (Which is really an extension of (a)) Apply names that they made up in their own little brains to software functionality, but which really isn't what the functionality is called.
Google shows absolutely nothing of value for that expression.
The closest thing that I can think of to what they
may have been referring to is User Defined Consolidations a.k.a. User Defined Calculations a.k.a. roll-ups. (Don't get me started on Applix's sloppy nomenclature again...
) Of course those aren't really
hierarchies, but they are "quick" (requiring no Admin intervention) and a clueless interviewer may use that term over "roll-ups" just because it sounds cooler and more techie.
If I may offer a piece of advice... given how sloppy Applix is with some of its terminology you'd probably be on safe ground by answering a question like that with "I'm not familiar with that term, but TM1 uses a range of different names to describe some of its functionality. Can you describe it for me?"
Of course, this presupposes that it really is TM1 functionality and not Cognos BI functionality. (Which obviously also didn't show up in the Google search, so even if it is it's probably called something else too.) It gets you out from having to admit that you don't know what it is, shows you have some curiosity, and if what the interviewer describes sounds familiar you can reply "Oh, you're referring to the xyz feature!".
