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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

Dense and Sparse


It's an Essbase concept in which, every dimension labelled either Dense or Sparse. As Planning Application created an Outline in Essbase, we need to know what is the default labelling of these standard dimensions.

The definition of Dense or Sparse impacts the performance of the cubes and determines the design of the cube. We know that an Essbase cube is made up of dimensions and at granular level; it is made up of all data blocks. Therefore, data blocks make a cube in a way similar to how bricks make up a house.

It is important to know the list of all Standard Planning Application Dimensions and their respective default Dimension Label.

You can see the Dimension and its default Label in the following image:

Note

We can add additional dimension to the existing Standard Set of Planning Dimension, which are called as Custom Dimensions . They are Sparse by default.

We can change the label of a dimension from Sparse to Dense or vice versa, depending on the performance of the cube or...