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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

Chart types


When a new chart is added, the default chart type is the Vertical Bar chart. The chart type can be changed at any time to one of the following chart types: Horizontal Bar, Vertical Stack Bar, Horizontal Stack Bar, Vertical Cluster Bar, Pie, Stacked Area, Area, Line, Ribbon, Bar-Line, Scatter, and Bubble. The chart type can be changed by one of the two steps shown as follows:

Format menu method

Section toolbar

Highlight Chart Type from the Format menu

Select the chart type of interest

Click on the down arrow next to the chart image in the Section Toolbar

Select the chart type of interest

Vertical and horizontal bar charts

The Vertical Bar chart displays data in bar format as shown in the following screenshot:

The Horizontal Bar chart displays data in bar format as shown in the following screenshot:

The Data Layout window contains three different areas for adding content. The Fact (Stack) area is used to add the fact or numerical data to the chart. The X-Axis is used for breaking...