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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 3. Introduction to Hyperion Planning Dimensions

 

First master the fundementals

 
 --Larry Bird

We successfully installed Planning software in the previous chapter. Before we start Planning Application creation, we will learn the very basics of Planning Dimensions in this chapter.

Let us take a look at a likely conversation between a lazy client and a hardworking Oracle Hyperion consultant:

Client: How are you guys progressing on the installation front?

Hyperion consultant: We have successfully installed and tested the configuration.

Client: Now, what's next?

Hyperion consultant: We need to understand the as is or current process of your organization so we can design the Planning solution accordingly. We would request you put us in touch with the gentleman who can help us in understand the Planning and budgeting of your company and who can also help us arrange interviews with the correct teams or departments as a part of the user interviews.

Client: Okay, that sounds good. I'll talk to Mr...