Providing feedback in a forecasting system

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• sending forecast information to a computer, wherein:
• (i) the forecast information includes forecast numerical values for at least one time period from one or more first entities in the computer and (ii) the sales forecast information forms a baseline forecast;
• and
• receiving data to display a generated dataset on a graphical interface device that incorporates integrated comments and integrated changes to the forecast information so that the comments and changes are shown and available for review in association with the forecast information including an essentially real-time, asynchronously updated baseline forecast, wherein:
• (i) the generated particular dataset is generated by a computer that for each of multiple organizations, an instance of one of the OLAP cube database structures and a data repository is dedicated to each of the organizations and each of the OLAP cube database structures of a computer database is partitioned into at least a first partition and a second partition and (ii) the computer executes a computer program to perform operations comprising:
• receiving the forecast information;
• for each organization, storing the sales forecast information in the first partition of the OLAP cube database structure of the computer database dedicated to the organization;
• for each organization, updating the first partition of the OLAP cube database structure of the computer database, wherein updating includes at least data from the second partition;
• receiving comments on specific entries of the forecast information from in the computer;
• receiving changes of the forecast information from one or more second entities in the computer after receiving the sales forecast information from the one or more first entities;
• receiving changes of the sales forecast information from the one or more second entities in the computer after receiving the sales forecast information from the one or more first entities, the changes including time based adjustments to the forecast numerical values;
• for each organization, storing the changes in the second partition of the OLAP cube database structure of the computer database dedicated to the organization;
• for each organization, updating the second partitions of the OLAP cube database structure of the computer database;
• integrating the associated sales forecast information from the first partition, comments, and changes from the second partition into the OLAP cube database structure within the data repository defined in the computer and dedicated to the organization;
• propagating the received sales forecast information from the first partition, the received comments, and the received changes of the sales forecast information from the second partition in essentially real-time through the OLAP cube database structure dedicated to the organization by the computer to (i) associate the received comments and changes with the received sales forecast information and (ii) asynchronously update the baseline forecast with the received changes of the sales forecast information in essentially real-time;
• generating the dataset and organization of the dataset from the OLAP cube database structure within the data repository including from the first partition and the second partition, which are dedicated to the organization, in response to a graphical interface based query from an external requestor wherein generating the particular selected dataset includes:
• combining data related to the changes from the first partition and the second partition to appear as a single response;
• analyzing the changes to determine the magnitude of each change;
• and
• providing a set of impacts to the one or more first entities, the impacts showing the changes based on the magnitude of the changes;
• and
• transmitting the data to display the generated particular dataset on the graphical interface device that incorporates the integrated comments and the integrated changes to the sales forecast information so that the comments and changes are shown and available for review in association with the sales forecast information including the essentially real-time, asynchronously updated baseline forecast.