Concepts

The ideas Axmo is built on, and the order to meet them in.

• Dimensions

  A dimension is a named hierarchy — regions, products, months — that your figures vary over. Define it once, and every series connected to it is organised the same way, from the finest detail up to the top of the tree.

• Dataseries

  A dataseries is a named set of values — revenue, headcount, a closing balance — spread across the dimensions you connect it to. Some you fill in; the rest are computed by a formula from the ones you did.

• Recurrence: balances that roll forward

  A dataseries can refer to its own value in an earlier period — the roll-forward at the heart of budgets, forecasts and three-statement models. In Axmo you write the relationship once and it holds across the whole model.

• Connect your data

  How data reaches an Axmo model and how results come back out — input ranges, dimension generators, series loaders and output ranges.

• Calculation

  A formula is written once and evaluated separately at every coordinate the dataseries covers. What each name in it means is decided by the coordinate being computed — which is why an Axmo model needs no lookups, and why a total is never invented on your behalf.