avbaby

 Profile Answers by avbaby 

• Jan 4th, 2008

 

regular universe is created when there is a need to create reports only using the universe.

metric universe is created when we to create analytics from the universe.

mhreddy

 Profile Answers by mhreddy 

• Jan 21st, 2008

 

In case of regular universe all the tables have to be joined. where as in case of Metric universe all the tables need not be joined, there can be isolated tables in universe.

In metric universe object descriptions are parsed.
eg:- In universe if we create a measure object (Revenue) with sum function in select clause.and simply including AGGR=SUM in decription, we cannot further aggretae the Revenue measure in EPM while creating the metric. All the aggregate functions will get disabled  while metric creation.