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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 6. Settings

 

Learn as you go and don’t be afraid to question the status quo

 
 --Albert Einstein

In the previous chapters, we learned how to create a Planning application. In this chapter, we'll make use of the already-created Planning application 'PandB' to take our understanding to the next level by learning about settings. This chapter will guide us in learning the dimension settings and will help us in making decisions in terms of which setting to pick, based on the user's requirements. This chapter will immensely help you while designing a Hyperion Planning application based on user requirements.

Before we get into the chapter, let us take a look at a possible conversation between a Hyperion support analyst and a Hyperion Solution architect:

Hyperion Support analyst: I have been involved with support and maintenance of Hyperion Planning for many years and I look into support issues based on the tickets raised.

Hyperion Solution architect: That's good. What are the areas that you...