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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

Query options


Multiple query options can be set in a Query section to modify the results returned from a query. The Query Properties window, as shown in the following screenshot, is opened by double-clicking the word Request in the Request line, or by clicking on the Query menu and selecting Query Options:

The commonly used features of this window are the Process options contained in the Process box. The following is a breakdown of each Process property:

  • The Return Unique Rows option is used to pull back a distinct list of values for the defined query.

  • The Return First property limits the results returned from a query to a subset of rows. This feature is usually used to sample output from a query. Once the limit has been reached, a dialogue box will appear notifying the user that the query has reached the desired limit and will display the results returned from the query up to the row limit.

  • The Time Limit property limits the amount of time a query is allowed to run in minutes. This...