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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

An overview of the Report layout


Understanding the layout of the Report is important for effectively adding content and taking full advantage of the features of the section. Each report contains areas where content can be dragged-and-dropped from the Elements window into the section. While these sections are by default not visible, the Section Boundaries can be turned on to show the borders of each section by accessing the Report menu and selecting the Section Boundaries menu item. The following is an example of a default report configuration with the Section Boundaries toggled to the ON position:

Notice the default configuration of a new report contains a Body section with a three column table inserted in the upper-left hand corner of the section. In addition to the Body boundary, Headers, Footers, and Report groups (discussed later in the chapter) may be added to the Report driving additional areas where content can be inserted and configured.

Headers and Footers

Two types of Headers and...