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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

Chapter 9. Dashboards

The term Dashboard is typically used to describe an executive level report displaying key business indicators in an effort to capture the health of a business at a point in time. The Dashboard sections provide the business analyst with tools to create professional executive level dashboards, and the section provides the analyst the flexibility to add controls and custom programming to each dashboard to add interactivity or to create a custom interface for users. The goal of this chapter is to present the methods to leverage each object of the section to support the business analysts in creating professional executive dashboards.

This chapter covers:

  • Creating and editing dashboards

  • Dashboard elements

  • Building a dashboard

  • Configuring gauges and live charts

  • Working with controls

  • Adding interactivity

  • Methods for exporting and printing