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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 with Oracle EPM Architecture in tiers—Client, Web and WebApp, and Database and Services. These tiers helped us in understanding and deciding the deployment plan. We have also looked into two of the Oracle-recommended deployment strategies, which would be very handy when we propose to a client.

We understood the prerequisites even before we initiated the software download. We have also learned how and what to download for Oracle Hyperion Planning. We spoke of Support Matrix reference guide, which will be useful in determining the right platform for Oracle Hyperion Planning implementations.

We have understood installation and configuration of Oracle Hyperion Planning and its complementing products such as Oracle Essbase, Hyperion Shared Services, EAS, Reporting and Analysis and Oracle EPM Workspace. We talked about the configuration when multiple machines are involved in a distributed environment. We also learned the correct order in which to start Oracle EPM windows...