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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

Create Planning Application


Before we start learning about the metadata load of a Planning application, let us create one more Planning application and use it all through this chapter. Wondering why are we doing this? The simple answer is, the sample application PandB already has its dimensions and members in it and we stand no scope to add new dimensions/ members from scratch. Hence, let us create a new application.

Before we create an application, let us assume the requirement and then we'll create a Planning application accordingly. We have two sections:

  • Requirement: We'll assume the requirement of an IT company, which will act as a base for application creation in the next section

  • Planning Application creation: In this section, we'll create a Planning application as per the requirements

Requirement of Planning

Imagine that we are a consulting team and we have gone to client's office to implement a Hyperion Planning and budgeting solution. The consulting team goes to see the client, after...