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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

Resource Manager


The Resource Manager is used to centrally manage all of the images in the document, where a single image can be reused across sections without needing to import the image into the document multiple times. The Resource Manager can be accessed by opening the Tools menu and selecting the Resource Manager menu item. The Resource Manager window appears as shown in the following screenshot:

The Resource Manager window has a toolbar at the top with buttons for adding a new picture to the document and for changing the view of the list of pictures in the main section of the window. Right-clicking on a picture brings up the following list of options for modifying and maintaining the object:

  • Replace provides the ability to update the image with a new picture, updating the picture throughout the dependent sections with a new picture.

  • Merge Duplicates provides the ability to merge the multiple copies of a picture in the document with a single version of the image.

  • Merge All Duplicates...