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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 2. The Query

The Query section is a gateway to Interactive Reporting for building a query and retrieving data from a database. The Query provides the business analyst with an ad-hoc interface to model and analyze data, allowing the analyst to create, modify, and run scenarios on key business metrics. The Query section supplies the data for all of the other presentation sections of the document, and the Query section can easily be modified and reprocessed as desired. The goal of this chapter is to provide the business analyst with the tools necessary to effectively build and manage queries from a data model.

This chapter covers:

  • An overview of the Query section layout

  • Building a query

  • Creating request items

  • Creating filters

  • Sorting

  • Query processing

  • Query options

  • Identifying metadata (table and column remarks)

The following two chapters address features of the query including building data models and advanced querying and filtering techniques.

Note

The examples in this section are based on the...