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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

Importing external data


One of the unique features of Interactive Reporting is the ability to import Microsoft Excel documents, XML files, tab-delimited text files, and comma-separated text files into Interactive Reporting. The imported file acts as a table section where data can be analyzed, filtered, and manipulated similar to Tables (discussed later in the Results and Table chapter). Pivots and Charts can be added to summarize and analyze the external content, and the data is available for use in Reports and Dashboards. The content is also available for use as a local results section allowing for the use of the external data in a data model.

There are many uses for using external content in a model, but the most common use is the ability to model scenarios of data not currently in existence in a reporting structure. For instance, a very common use for this feature is to model a new organizational structure. Since the software allows the external data to be easily updated, the scenario...