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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

Summary


We started the chapter understanding the importance of Security in a Budgeting Application like Hyperion Planning. We assumed a requirement of a fictional company called Sargod Consulting Ltd and created another Planning Application named 'SRGD'.

We even considered a few owners of different geographic locations, where 'Sargod Consulting Ltd' operates and identified users. These users were created in Shared Services.

We then moved on to provision the users to the Planning Application 'SRGD' and also learned about different roles in the Hyperion Planning application, which can be provisioned to a user. We have also understood the process of assigning Dimension members within the Hyperion Planning application. Conclusively, we have also learned an alternate way of using the 'ImportSecurity' utility to assign security access to users. To demonstrate the same, we have assigned security for five users at once using SecFile.txt.

In next chapter, we'll start looking at the management process...