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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

Creating a data model


A data model is created in the Query section of the document. A new Query section is added to the document by selecting the New Query item from the Insert Menu. When a new query is inserted into the document, the Insert Query window shown in the following screenshot appears for the selection of the database connection to use in the new query.

The Insert Query menu shows three options. The first option appears if the developer of the document created a Master Datamodel section in the document. The master data model, typically created by developers, is used to centralize a model for reuse across queries and documents. The section is locked from editing directly in the Query section, and access must be granted to the Data Model section to edit a master data model. Selecting the model of interest from the drop-down box and clicking on OK will insert a new query using the master data model selected. If no master data models exist in the document, only the Existing Connection...