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dsd_CS
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8 years ago
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Customer Churn and Retention Calculation - Dynamic range

Hi,   I am working on a customer retention calculation and need some help. My problem is related to calculating the denominator. To visualize the problem, I created the below dummy data in excel. ...
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    v-ljerr-msft
    8 years ago

    Hi dsd_CS,

     

    If I understand you correctly, the formula below should work in your scenario. :smileyhappy:

    Retention Denominator 2 = 
CALCULATE(
    DISTINCTCOUNT('dummy data - customers'[customer ID]),
FILTER(
    ALL('dummy data - customers'),
    'dummy data - customers'[Time since first order YEAR] >= MAX('dummy data - customers'[Customer lifetime])  && 'dummy data - customers'[Customer lifetime] >= 0
))

     

    Regards

v-ljerr-msft's avatar
v-ljerr-msft
Microsoft Employee
8 years ago

Hi dsd_CS,

 

If I understand you correctly, the formula below should work in your scenario. :smileyhappy:

Retention Denominator 2 = 
CALCULATE(
    DISTINCTCOUNT('dummy data - customers'[customer ID]),
FILTER(
    ALL('dummy data - customers'),
    'dummy data - customers'[Time since first order YEAR] >= MAX('dummy data - customers'[Customer lifetime])  && 'dummy data - customers'[Customer lifetime] >= 0
))

 

Regards

dsd_CS's avatar
dsd_CS
Frequent Visitor
8 years ago

wonderful! That's it!

 

Now that I see it, it looks very straightforward. This will make a big difference for us.

 

Thank you!