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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

Adding tables to the data model


Tables are dragged and rearranged in the query section by highlighting the table name in the Elements window and dragging-and-dropping the table into the main window of the Query section. Continuing with the Sales model example from the previous chapter, tables are added one-by-one to the main window of the query as demonstrated in the following screenshot. Once a table is in the query window, it can be resized and rearranged as necessary.

After the necessary tables are added and rearranged, the tables can be appropriately joined to one another to produce the results of interest.

Note

The default configuration for the Web Client is to include the Auto join tables option in the query. If a number of unexpected joins appear when adding tables, access the DataModel menu, and select the Data Model Options menu item. On the General tab, uncheck the Auto join tables checkbox. Removing this option will prevent the Web Client product from attempting to determine joins...