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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

Chapter 13. Mastering Budget Process Management

 

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

 
 --Mark Twain

If we thought we had mastered the Workflow processes in a Hyperion Planning application, we're in for some bad news. We were only half way there when we completed Chapter 12, Data Validation Rules. We understood the conceptual clarity of Workflow in the Budget process and we have also created Planning units such as 'East' and 'Test' in the previous chapter. In this chapter, we'll learn more about the Process Management Templates of Planning Workflow. It's like a sequel of a successful movie. Let us make this particular sequel even more interesting and a bigger hit.

Let us take a look at a conversation between a client—explaining his/her requirements to a Hyperion Planning consultant:

Client: We have understood by now that Hyperion Planning has...