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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

Exporting and printing


Pivots can be exported to many formats, but there are two formats that are most commonly used by analysts. Typically analysts want to export the data to Microsoft Excel for additional analysis or final formatting. To export a Pivot, access the File menu | Export | Section. The Export Section window appears with the ability to name the file and select the type of the file to create. The two main formats for exporting a Pivot to Excel are the .xls format or the .mhtml format. The .xls format creates an Excel document without the Pivot formatting applied. However, saving the Pivot in the .mhtml format and opening the document using Microsoft Excel will display the fully formatted Pivot table with the ability to continue to edit the file. The file can also be easily saved to the most recent Excel format using Excel without needing additional steps to convert the file.

Pivots are printed by selecting the Print menu option from the File menu. While a pivot can be printed...