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Target & Variance Reporting (Studio)


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About Target and Variance Reporting

Target and variance reporting can help you quantify how each level of your organization stacks up to its targets and how these targets vary in comparison to the actual KPIs. To leverage target and variance reporting, you need to:

When all of these conditions are met, you will be able to use both the target metric and the variance metric as widget calculations.

Setting up a Table Widget With Target and Variance Calculations

Attention: This action requires a Manage Settings permission.
Attention: The organization hierarchy must be published and synchronized with the content provider that hosts your data. Your Discover representative can help configure the publication of the organization hierarchies.
  1. Navigate to the dashboard.
  2. Click Edit to open the dashboard in edit mode.
    edit button in dashboard
  3. Expand the actions menu at the top-right of the table widget.
    editing menu
  4. Select Edit.
  5. To use target and variance metrics as calculations, you need to group data by the corresponding organization hierarchy. Click the plus ( + ) icon next to Organization Hierarchy in the Groupings
  6. Click the organization hierarchy to move it to Applied Groupings.
    moving items from one button to another
  7. Click the plus ( + ) icon to expand the Organization Hierarchy Metrics option in Calculations.
    user interface described
  8. Click the target and variance calculations that you wish to use in the widget from the available options:
    target calculations

    • Target Effort
    • Target NPS
    • Target Sentiment
  9. The target and variance calculations will appear in the Applied Calculations section.
    applied calculations

    Qtip: You can further enhance a report by enabling peer and parent reporting for it.
  10. Click Ok at the bottom-right of the Edit Widget window.
    ok button
  11. Click Save at the upper-right of the dashboard.
    save button