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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 9. Data Entry

 

Appearances are not held to be a clue to the truth. But we seem to have no other.

 
 --Ivy Compton-Burnett

In the previous chapter, we learned how to create data forms, we'll continue our journey with data forms, but this time we'll learn about data entry in the data forms. You must be wondering that data entry should be as simple as typing numbers in the available cells in a data form. Yes it is true, but there are few other important concepts such as Data Spread, Supporting details, and Time balance-related data entry, which we would learn in this chapter.

Let us take a look a possible conversation between a Hyperion consultant and their client.

Client: I know you guys are working very hard on the implementation. But, I am afraid to say that our users are comfortable with the existing spreadsheets for budgeting. I am not sure how they are going to adapt to this new tool.

Hyperion consultant: We understand that this is a difficult area and that is the reason we have our...