Aha!  enables you to build new reporting models connected to your existing list-based hierarchies to enable new reporting without impacting your historical data.

Many organizations have spent a great deal of time creating and adjusting reports to a source systems fixed means of summarizing data. An example of this could be a QuickBooks account hierarchy.  While it is possible to adjust hierarchies directly in many products, users could be concerned about moving accounts because of concern about being able to reproduce historical reports OR they may simply want to a summarize information in an alternative way for management or compliance reporting.

We ship a few standard models to get you started but the real power of the tool is that you can create any 4 level hierarchy. One example that is popular is using the tool to group together related income and cost of goods sold (COGS) accounts to produce  a margin report by business focus. Besides financial accounts, you can also group entities with common demographics or perhaps product groups.