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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 7. Loading Metadata

 

The loftier the building, the deeper must be the foundation be laid.

 
 --Thoman Kempis

In Chapters 4 and 5, we learned to create Hyperion Planning application and we dived deep into the settings of Planning application and dimension properties in Chapter 6. The next, obvious step is to load metadata and data into the Planning application. In this chapter, we'll learn how to load metadata into a Planning application.

Before we get into the chapter, let us take a look at a possible conversation between Hyperion Planning consultant, who is already at a client's place and had started Hyperion Planning implementation.

Client: Hi, what's the update on the project? What's happening? There has been no news from you.

Hyperion Planning consultant: Hi. As we had updated you, we have installed and configured Hyperion Planning along with the complementing products. As a part of the first phase of the project, that is, requirement gathering, we have started talking to the relevant...