Getting Started with Financial Reporting

In This Section:

Terminology in this Release

Financial Reporting Components

Navigating in the Studio Workspace

Design Considerations

BasicFinancial Reporting Tasks

Toolbars

Menus

Shortcut Menu Commands

Error Messages

Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting is a powerful tool for designing and presenting analytic data graphically. You can design traditional financial report formats such as cash management reports, profit and loss statements, and balance sheets. You can also design nontraditional formats for financial or analytic data that include text and graphics.

Financial Reporting uses an object-oriented graphical report layout. Whether you have little or advanced experience using an object-oriented graphical program, it is easy to design reports. You use report objects, such as text boxes, grids, images, and charts, to design your reports. You can use the same report objects in multiple reports.

The location of web application deployment has changed. All references to this location in the documentation should be updated from: MIDDLEWARE_HOME/user_projects/epmsystem1/domains/domainName To: EPM_ORACLE_INSTANCE/domains/domainName where domainName is the name of the WebLogic domain. The ODL logging location for web applications has changed. All references in the documentation should be updated from: MIDDLEWARE_HOME/user_projects/epmsystem1/diagnostics/logs/ To: EPM_ORACLE_INSTANCE/domains/EPMSystem/servers/serverName/logs where serverName is the name of the WebLogic managed server.

Note:

Please ignore any references to third party product release numbers or version numbers in the product guides for this release. Review the Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management System Certification Matrix for information on system requirements. You can find it at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/files/fusion_certification.html (under Business Intelligence).

Getting the Latest Version of Help

The most recent English version of this help system is available in the EPM System Documentation Library on Oracle Technology Network (OTN):

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/epm.html