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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 a query


A query is built by adding and configuring items in the Request, Filter, and Sort areas of the section. Interactive Reporting provides a significant amount of flexibility for building queries, including the ability to add custom logic into the query. Once the query is configured, the query can be processed and modified as desired.

Request items

The columns of data returned from a query are configured by adding items to the Request line. Items from the model are added to the Request line by the following two methods:

Right-click method

Drag-and-drop method

Highlight the column(s) in the table of interest.

Highlight the column(s) in the table of interest.

Right-click and select Add Selected Items.

Drag-and-drop the columns into the Request line.

Note

The Ctrl and Shift keys can be used to highlight multiple columns, and right-clicking on the entire table object and selecting Add Selected Items will add all of the items in the table into the Request line.

The following...