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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

Dimension settings


There's no need to list all the standard dimensions, as we should know them in our sleep by now. For convenience, it is listed again:

In Chapter 3, Hyperion Planning Dimensions, we already learned the basics of dimensions and their usages. In this section, we are going to re-visit the dimensions to learn more granular details about them in terms of their properties and settings and how would one make a choice between the available options given a situation/requirement. We'll make use of our friend that is Planning application 'PandB' all throughout this chapter.

Log in to the Oracle EPM Workspace and navigate to the Planning application 'PandB'. After we have opened the required Planning application, go to the properties of the dimensions.

We can go to properties of a Planning dimension after we had logged in to:

Administration | Manage | Dimensions as shown; this will show us the Planning Dimensions page.

It opens the home page of Hyperion Planning dimension and we can see...