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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

Filters


Filters provide the ability to return a subset of data in the model by a field or combination of fields from the data model. Interactive Reporting provides a very robust filtering capability, where complex filters can be added to queries through an easy-to-use interface.

A filter is easily added to the query by adding the item to the Filter line. Items are added to the filter line by using one of the following two methods:

Right-click method

Drag-and-drop method

Highlight the column in the table of interest.

Highlight the column in the table of interest.

Right-click and select Filter.

Drag-and-drop the column into the Filter line.

Since the filter must be configured after it is added, only one column can be added to the Filter line at a time. Once the column has been added to the Filter line, the Filter interface appears to configure the filter values for the column.

Filter interface

The Filter interface provides significant flexibility for building complex filter conditions...