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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

Updating the data model


As changes are made to the tables in a database, Interactive Reporting provides a simple and easy-to-use update feature to refresh the columns of the tables in the data model of a Query section. In the DataModel menu, the Sync with Database option updates the data model with the changes to each table in the data model.

Note

If at any time a column is deleted from any table and is used in the Request line of a query, Interactive Reporting will remove the column from the query if the column has not been edited or the software will display a database error noting an error running the query, if the column has been modified in the Request line.

When the Sync with Database is completed, a summary of the impacted tables appears as shown in the following screenshot. Clicking on the Show Detail Information checkbox provides additional information on the table modifications as shown:

Changing the table definition

If there is an interest to replace an existing table with a new...