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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

Results section


When a new Query section is added to the document, Interactive Reporting automatically creates a Results section to accompany the query. When a Query section is processed, the data result produced by the query is stored and presented in the Results section. The data from each Request line item in the query produces a column of data in the Results section.

The Results section looks like a spreadsheet where the data returned by the query is displayed in a 'row by-column' format as shown in the following screenshot:

The Results section is the main source of data for any section used to analyze and present data from the accompanying query. Results sections provide the ability to modify, filter, sort, and analyze data returned from the Query section. Any changes to the data contained in the Results section will impact the data displayed in all of the sections using the Results section as a source, including Tables, Pivots, Charts, Dashboards, Reports, and Queries with local results...