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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

Creating Pivot sections


Pivots are added to a document by selecting the New Pivot item from the Insert Menu. When a new Pivot section is added the document, the Pivot will appear in the Section Catalogue with the default name Pivot. Renaming the section is consistent with other sections, where the section is renamed using one of the three following options:

Right-click method

Edit menu method

Double-click method

Right-click the section in the Section Catalogue and select Rename Section

Select Rename Section from the Edit menu while viewing the section

Double-click the name of the section in the Section Title Bar

Change the section to the desired name and select OK

Change the section to the desired name and select OK

Change the section to the desired name and select OK

Pivot this Chart

Interactive Reporting provides the ability to create a Pivot from the data contained in a Chart section. While viewing a chart, the Pivot this Chart menu option in the Insert menu can be selected...