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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

Analyzing content


The analysis features of the Pivot section are the most commonly used data analysis features in Interactive Reporting. The Pivot section provides the ability to Focus, Hide, and Drill into columns of data to easily locate and explore datasets. To demonstrate each of the three analysis features, the sales and cost example from previous chapters will be used. The following screenshot shows a Pivot configured with sales and cost across regions.

Drill

The concept of drilling into data has become of one of the most commonly used terms in data analysis, where drilling provides the ability to start at a high-level dataset and explore the details of a particular section of data. The Interactive Reporting Pivot concept of drilling is similar, where the software allows the ability to drill into another data element available in the parent section of data. When a Drill is initiated, Interactive Reporting freezes the data item(s) selected for the drill and removes all of the other items...