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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

Dashboard objects


The Dashboard section allows for the use of all of the data presentation sections in the document as well as objects specific to the Dashboard section. The available objects are displayed in the Elements window of the section. The Elements window in the dashboard is similar to the Report section, where a large set of objects exist that can be added to the dashboard including Query elements, Reports, Pivots, Charts, Results, and Tables as well as Graphics, Controls, Gauges, Live Charts, and Resources. The following screenshot shows an example of the Elements window for the Dashboard section.

Query objects

The Elements window groups each object associated with a query underneath the query name, including Pivots, Charts, Tables, and Results. The section also lists the individual elements available in the Results and Table sections. These individual elements cannot be added directly to the dashboard, but the elements are used in the Gauges and Live Charts.

Reports

The ability...