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The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11

By : Edward Cody
Book Image

The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11

By: Edward Cody

Overview of this book

Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting is one of the many products in the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management software suite, an industry-leading business intelligence software package. The primary focus of the Interactive Reporting product is to provide strong relational querying and data analysis capabilities. It also provides the capability to disseminate information throughout an enterprise. There is a very steep learning curve for most users of this tool.This book examines the power of the Interactive Reporting Web Client software, focusing on the key features of each section of the product. The author's experience in developing and supporting Interactive Reporting users is very well documented in this book. The goal is to educate you on every useful feature of the product, enabling you to gather information from various sources and process it to produce meaningful results that help you to spot problems and analyze trends necessary for business decisions.The book starts with a quick introduction to the product interface and the EPM Workspace, with explanation of importing and provisioning. It then takes you through each section from building a query and data model to building graphical displays of the data in a logical sequence. The report sections and interactive dashboards are also discussed at length. The book also covers advanced features of the product and provides you with the information necessary to build the foundation for creating complex queries and computations using the product.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Sorting


Many options exist for sorting data throughout each section of the software. Sorting in the Query section is easily achieved by dragging-and-dropping a field from the Request line to the Sort line. Continuing with the example, the query is sorted to return the quantity of a product that is sold in descending order by dragging the Quantity Sold column to the Sort line. Once added, the Quantity Sold item appears in the Sort line with an arrow pointing upward denoting ascending order. Double-clicking on the Quantity Sold box in the Sort line switches the sort to descending order as denoted by the change in the arrow to point down as shown in the following screenshot. The sort will take place after the query has finished processing, where the data will be ordered in the Results section descending by the Quantity Sold column.