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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

Building Report tables


A Report table is similar in appearance and behavior to a Results or Table section. Fields are added to the table by highlighting the table of interest in the report and then dragging elements from the desired Results or Table section of the Elements window to the Table Dimensions or Table Facts area in the Table window.

Table window

The Table window is displayed similar to the Data Layout window of other section and appears at the bottom-right portion of the main window. An example of the table window is shown in the following screenshot:

If the Table window is not initially shown, the window can be accessed by clicking on the Table icon in the Section Title Bar.

Table dimensions and facts

Similar to the behavior of a pivot table, the Table Dimensions are the non-fact elements that are displayed to the left of the table and the Table Facts are the numeric columns that are displayed on the right-hand side of the table. The Table facts are summarized by a Data Function...