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The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11

By : Edward Cody
Book Image

The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11

By: Edward Cody

Overview of this book

Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 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 Interactive Reporting product is to provide strong relational querying and data analysis capabilities. It also provides the capability to disseminate information throughout an enterprise. There is a very steep learning curve for most users of this tool.This book examines the power of the Interactive Reporting Web Client software, focusing on the key features of each section of the product. The author's experience in developing and supporting Interactive Reporting users is very well documented in this book. The goal is to educate you on every useful feature of the product, enabling you to gather information from various sources and process it to produce meaningful results that help you to spot problems and analyze trends necessary for business decisions.The book starts with a quick introduction to the product interface and the EPM Workspace, with explanation of importing and provisioning. It then takes you through each section from building a query and data model to building graphical displays of the data in a logical sequence. The report sections and interactive dashboards are also discussed at length. The book also covers advanced features of the product and provides you with the information necessary to build the foundation for creating complex queries and computations using the product.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
The Business Analyst's Guide to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting 11
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting

Welcome to Oracle Hyperion Interactive Reporting! Interactive Reporting is an extremely robust and powerful business intelligence tool providing ad-hoc querying, data analysis, dashboards, and other reporting capabilities. Business analysts access the software through the EPM Workspace, a central location for viewing and managing content across all of the Hyperion products. The product is extremely flexible and provides analysts with the ability to quickly analyze data and produce deliverables. The software provides a consistent platform for managing content, where documents can be customized, saved, and shared across an organization. The focus of this chapter is to provide an overview of the Interactive Reporting Web Client and EPM Workspace, providing the business analyst with the skills necessary to work with the tool on a daily basis.

The content in this chapter covers:

  • Navigating the EPM Workspace

  • Installing the Web Client

  • An Overview of the Web Client interface

  • Methods for opening and saving documents

  • Methods for importing and provisioning files

  • Steps to edit file properties