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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

Filters


Filtering in the Results and Table section provides the user with significant flexibility to add, modify, and remove custom filters without the need to reprocess the query. Since the query does not need to be rerun, filtering is quick and easy in the section. In addition, Interactive Reporting documents can be saved to the local workstation populated with data allowing the document to be taken offline where the user can continue to perform filtering and analysis on the data stored in the document without needing to connect back to the database.

Creating filters

Filters can be created in a Results and Table section through the different options shown in the following table:

Double-click method

Drag-and-drop method

Right-click method

Double-click the column of data in the Results section.

Highlight the column of data in the Results or Table section.

Highlight the column of data in the Results or Table section.

 

Drag-and-drop the column of data into the Filter line.

Right-click...