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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 custom SQL files


The ability exists to use Interactive Reporting to run a custom SQL statement. Previous Interactive Reporting versions did not have any easy way to refresh the SQL in the document, but more recent versions of the software allow for a refresh from the source file.

In a new Query section, the File menu| Import Data | SQL menu option allows the selection of either a .txt or .sql file to be added into the blank query. When the file is selected, a window appears to set the number of columns in the Request line of the document. After specifying the number of columns, the Filter and Sort lines are removed from the Query section and the Request line appears with the column names as Column 1, Column 2, through the final number of columns. The following is an example of a query with an imported SQL file:

Refreshing imported SQL

In the previous screenshot, the Imported SQL Statement graphic under the Request line can be right-clicked and the Refresh or Delete menu items can...