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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

Creating Chart sections


Charts are added to a document through selecting the New Chart item from the Insert menu. When a new Chart section is added to the Interactive Reporting document, the chart appears in the Section Catalogue with the default name Chart. Renaming the section is consistent with other sections, where the section can be renamed through one of the following three options:

Right-click method

Edit menu method

Double-click method

Right-click on the section in the Section Catalogue

Select Rename Section

Change section to desired name and select OK

Select Rename Section from the Edit menu while viewing the section

Change section to desired name and select OK

Double-click the name of the section in the Section Title Bar

Change section to desired name and select OK

Charts created using results or tables

Similar to Pivot sections, charts can be added under Table sections or Results sections, allowing charts to be built from the full set of results or off of a subset stored...