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Getting Started with Oracle Hyperion Planning 11

By : Enti Sandeep Reddy
Book Image

Getting Started with Oracle Hyperion Planning 11

By: Enti Sandeep Reddy

Overview of this book

<p>Oracle Hyperion Planning 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 Hyperion Planning product is to provide a planning, budgeting, and forecasting solution that helps you manage and coordinate all your business planning and budgeting needs.</p> <p>This book is a practical guide to implementing a Hyperion Planning solution in your organization, which addresses all your planning, budgeting, and forecasting needs.</p> <p>You will begin with the installation of Hyperion Planning and then design Planning applications as per some example user requirements. You will then learn to create the planning objects. The book moves on to explaining important concepts within Hyperion Planning such as data forms, task lists, business rules, validation rules, and workflows, with the help of many real-world examples to maximize your learning. Towards the end of the book, you will cover user provisioning and access rights and budget process management.</p>
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Getting Started with Oracle Hyperion Planning 11
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

User authentication


What does a user need in order to access a Planning Application?

The user needs a valid username and password.

When we create a user in Shared Services, we provide his 'user ID' and 'password' information. This is stored and when the same user tries to access the Planning application, his information is authenticated before he is let inside the Planning application. Along with authentication, the system also checks whether the user is authorized to access the Planning application or not.

In most of the implementations, it's important to see external authentication. Let us elaborate. Consider a Planning application like that of 'SRGD' which is for a company called 'Sargod Consulting Ltd' that is spread across many geographic locations and needs to be accessed by many hundreds of users spread across the globe. Now, any organization of huge size would base their employee user management on technologies such as Microsoft's Active Directory.

Now, when we are implementing our application...