Building the Contributor application

The second step in the model development process is to build the Contributor application by using the Analyst template model. You, as a Contributor administrator, build the Contributor application using the New Application Wizard.

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An Analyst model becomes an application in the Contributor program.

The terms "model" and "application" are used interchangeably in practice. In many organizations, a modeler can perform the role of a Contributor administrator, while in other organizations these two roles are separate.

There is a special dimension called e.List. This plays an important role in designing the planning model. Although the e.List is simply a dimension in an Analyst planning model, such as sales territory, region, or sales person, this dimension plays a critical role when deploying the Analyst model to business users in Contributor. This special dimension controls the distribution of the Analyst template to business users, referred as Contributors...