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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 8. Reports

Reports provide the business analyst with the ability to combine multiple metrics from a set of reporting objects and data in the document into a single view. Reports are used to display content in a printable format, where Pivots, Charts, Report tables, and Report specific objects can be added to the section to display content. Reports are commonly used to create printable or PDF documents, but the section can also be used to analyze content or generate images to be used in presentations. The focus of this chapter is to provide the business analyst with the knowledge to create and configure a report as well as analyze content and integrate data across datasets.

The Report section provides features not common to other sections, including the ability to slice the data using the Report Group feature that creates a split of data and objects displayed in a report by fields in a Table. The Report also provides the flexibility to combine data from different queries and perform...