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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 content


Adding content to a report is more complex than adding content to a pivot or chart due to the flexibility to add content from any query in the document as well as other resources, graphics, and predefined objects.

Elements window

While operating in the Report section, the Elements window displays the available content that may be added from the document to the report. While the Elements window in prior sections only displays field names from a Query or Results section, the Elements window displays content in four main groups, as discussed in the following sections.

Query elements

Each Query section is shown at the top of the Elements window ordered according to its section name. Upon expanding the main query element, the element displays each Results, Table, Pivot, and Chart object belonging to the query. The Pivot and Chart elements cannot be broken down further, but the Results and Table elements can be expanded to display all of the fields from each section.

Graphics

Graphics...