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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

Why EPMA


Before we start understanding these modules, we have to question ourselves.

Why do we need Performance Management Architect, which has so many confusing modules? Can't we just be happy with Classic Application Administration alone?

Oracle Hyperion version 11 is called 'Fusion Edition'. The Oracle Hyperion Products Suite includes various products such as Oracle Hyperion financial Management, Oracle Hyperion Planning, and Oracle Essbase and also to name a few recent additions Oracle Hyperion Profitability and Cost Management.

Different products have different interfaces and different ways of managing applications. It would be great to have a single common interface which can manage different applications in terms of creating, managing and even deploying. This wish is answered in the form of 'Performance Management Architect' by Oracle god. EPMA is closely integrated with all Performance Management products and now, we can rightly call the Oracle Hyperion Version 11 the 'Fusion edition...