Number of calendar periods

In Incentives, you can configure the number of periods in each of the Varicent calendars. This setup can significantly affect the model computation time, so it's crucial to make these configurations wisely.

Recommendation

Ideally, define the minimum number of periods required to support your requirements. Avoiding excessive past and future periods helps in optimizing performance.

Impact of excessive periods

Defining too many periods can lead to accumulating calculations for these unnecessary timeframes. This results in higher utilization of database resources as there will be additional demands to select, insert, update, and delete these extra results in the underlying database calculation result tables. This ultimately translates to slowed performance and increased processing time.