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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

Combining data from multiple queries


Report tables provide the ability to combine and calculate data across multiple datasets. In the Table object, fact data from multiple queries can be displayed as well as integrated through calculated items. The Report functionality allows for the integration of two or more datasets from different queries, where each dataset can contain a different level of detail.

The integration of data behaves similar to building a query with outer joins. When a table is built, the Table Dimensions may be built from only one dataset in the document. The Table Dimensions serve as a key or set of criteria for the additional data sections to follow. When adding an additional dataset fact to the document, the additional dataset must contain columns that match the columns used in the Table Dimensions, where the column names and datatypes are exactly the same. As Facts are added from additional datasets, the data displayed from the additional data sections are only the figures...