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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

Oracle EPM Architecture and deployment


In this section, we will learn about the four tier architecture of Oracle EPM and will understand the deployment strategies as well.

Oracle EPM Architecture is divided into four tiers and they are as follows:

  • Web and WebApp tier: This tier comprises all the Oracle EPM System Products that would require Web Server and WebApp Server. In our case, it is Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle WebLogic respectively.

  • Client tier: This tier is for the end user or Planner, who will be accessing Planning application on their PCs. Therefore, this tier comprises the products that must be installed on the end user's system to access Planning application.

  • Database tier: This is the relational database tier. In our case, it is Oracle. There are other supported databases as well, which we will cover in section System requirement check section.

  • Services tier: This tier includes two servers. One for Oracle Essbase and one for a few other services, as shown in the following image...