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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

Advanced filtering


The Filter window contains advanced options to provide additional flexibility for filtering in a query. The Advanced Filter Options provide the ability to add user-defined SQL to the filter condition as well as the ability to create a SubQuery or import a list of filter definitions into the Filter window as demonstrated in the Chapter 2, Filters section.

Custom SQL filter option

The Custom SQL filter option allows the user to leverage SQL to create a custom-defined filter in the Filter window. When the Custom SQL button is clicked from the Filter window, the field definition of the filter is shown in the editable textbox as shown in the following screenshot:

While adding Custom SQL to the interface, both the left and right-hand side of the operator can be edited to drive the desired outcome. A very common and useful example of using Custom SQL in a Filter is to leverage dynamic date functions for queries that need to be run on multiple occasions for a constant duration...