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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

Prerequisites


After we have decided the deployment plan in terms of the number of servers, we will look at the prerequisites before we check the system requirements.

There are four important prerequisites:

  • Web Server preparation: We learned the role of Web Server in Chapter 1 and we need to ensure that Web Server is installed as per the deployment plan. The default Web Server is Oracle HTTP Server.

    Note

    Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) is a prerequisite for Performance Management Architect Service. Out of the components we are installing for Hyperion Planning, the only component that needs IIS .NET is EPMA Dimension Server. Nevertheless, EPMA is out of the scope of this book.

  • WebApp Server preparation: We have learned that there are a few products of Oracle EPM, along with Hyperion Planning, that would need WebApp Server and we need to install WebLogic on the servers or machines in accordance with our deployment plan.

    Note

    When the client purchases Oracle Hyperion Planning, Oracle...