Create drivers and formulas in business performance planning

Enabled for	Public preview	General availability
Users by admins, makers, or analysts	Oct 31, 2024	Oct 31, 2024

Business value

With driver-based planning capabilities, decision-makers have access to financial forecasts that are directly tied to operational drivers. This connection between financial outcomes and business activities enables more informed and strategic decision-making. This feature enables the user to create powerful calculation logic and methods with identified key drivers to easily generate financial outcome scenarios, eliminating the need for manual setup in Power BI and streamlining the process while keeping track of the change made to those drivers across multiples scenarios.

Feature details

Before this feature, the calculation and modeling were handled directly in Power BI through calculation definition. This new feature provides calculation logic and methods within the business performance planning application. This eliminates the need for the manual setup of calculations in Power BI and streamlines planning by leveraging key drivers across multiple scenarios.

See also

Load data into Business performance planning using dataflows (docs)