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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

Installation of Oracle Hyperion Planning


Installation of Version 11 is different from its precursors. Along with simplifying the installation, the process for upgrades, and the application of patches has also been simplified to a great extent. Anyone familiar with the earlier version 9 knows how complicated the installation and patching process was.

Oracle, after it bought Hyperion, aims to standardize the installation and patching process. Thanks Oracle.

Double-click on the InstallTool.cmd file. This will commence the installation process. As we will see, it checks a few pre-requisites such as assemblies and environment variables. Post checking for all pre-requisites, it will launch the installation tool. We can see the same message in the following image:

Next, in the Select a language window, select English. We can take a look at what other languages it supports, just out of curiosity.

As we can see, the whole installation process is divided into the following steps:

  1. Welcome: In this first...