Comparision of Hyperion Financial Reporting(HFR) and OracleBI(OBIEE11g)

Hi all,
Anybody can list down the Advantages of Hyperion Financial Reporting(HFR) VsOracleBI(OBIEE11g) adn Vice versa
let me know what might be issues or challenges and what kind of additional tasks/effort required when develop the reports in obiee 11g compared to HFR?
Thanks

Neville,
Page 48 of this link
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10530_01/doc/epm.931/hs_windows_install.pdf
JTS

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POV in Hyperion Financial Reporting Studio and Workspace

Hi!
I have the following problem.
I create a report in Hyperion FinReporting Studio, choose required members in POV. Save report.
Then I open it in Workspace and sometimes my chosen POV crushed: sometimes there are no chosen members, sometimes there is a free space.
How can I fix it? (It's not acceptable to choose POV as a prompt all time). Is it a bug?
Thanks.
Natallia

Hi Natallia,
well first there are two type of POV in Hyperion financial reporting.
1. User POV
2. Grid POV
If you are never getting the USER POV in workspace then it may be that "Preview User Point of View" is off.
Just check it under FIle-->Preferences-->Financial Reporting in workspace.
If you want some default selection in your reports all the time, you should use Grid POV instead of USer POV.
Thanks and Regrads,
Rahul

Hyperion Financial Reports Image and Fit to Page

We import Saved Objects into a grid for a standard header and footer on our reports. Both the header and footer run across the entire landscape page. This works perfecting when the report is small in width. However, when we use the "fit to page" functionality to fit the report on one page, it also reduces the size of the object so that it doesn't span the page. It literally takes hours to get everything lined up perfectly so that it spans the page and still looks "okay". Has anyone else experienced this and has a good solution/work around. I litterlly want to PULL MY HAIR OUT whenever a formatting change comes in for one of these reports as I know it will take FOREVER.

Hi
Do you import them into a grid or do you import them in to the header and footer section?
Also have you tried importing them as a saved 'Image' object?
I think I've experienced similar at a client where we had highly formatted reports with a text box as the header and an image as the footer. Fortunately for us we had limited rows/columns on each report and it was accepted that some reports would span multiple pages so that the shrink to fit never actually affected the size too much.
Apart from trying the other object types if you haven't already, I'm afraid there is little you can do to ease your pain within FR. Could you do anything with the image, create ones of various sizes and test how they 'shrink', see whether you can sort it from that angle?
Hope this helps
Stuart

Hyperion Financial Reporting and Cognos Reporting

Dear All,
Kindly assist in providing the clear differences between the above tools?
Can we have the Hyperion implemented and run reports using Cognos? or is there any integration facility available to interlink with Hyperion Financial Reporting?
Thanks
Swami

Neville,
Page 48 of this link
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10530_01/doc/epm.931/hs_windows_install.pdf
JTS

Hyperion Web Analysis vs Financial Reports Pros and Cons

Hi All,
Can you pls. let me know what are the major differences between Hyperion Financial Reports and Hyperion Web Analysis ? For Planning application we generally use Financial Reports right ? Can't we use Hyperion Web Analysis ? What are the advantages & disadvantages of both FR & Web Analysis tools
My Customer is asking the Merits and De merits of using both FR & Web Analysis tools for Hyperion Planning. Pls. help
Thanks,
PVR

Hi John,
I'm using FR extensively now and used Web Analysis before. We use FR for Good formatted Reports, where as Web Analysis we use for adhoc Reporting Purpose. users can do slicing/dicing, Drill down/up in Web Analysis Reports, where as this feature is not available completely in FR
We use FR for Planning right ? What is the main advantage of using FR over Planning ? I belive with Web Analysis over Planning may cause performance issues
Thanks,
PVR

How to include look and feel features in the Hyperion Financial Reports

Hi,
Can anybody suggest me how I can enhance the look and feel features of Hyperion Financial Reports, any references
2) Will traffic lighting functionality is present in Hyperion Reports (FR), if not present how can achieve this functionality
in FR ?
3) We have user look and feel features like pinboard in the web analyis reports, but are there any certailn features
in Hyperion Reports ??

You can use Conditional Formatting to produce stoplights in Report Studio.
If you know of specific things that you want to see, try reading the manual. I cannot give you details of every type of formatting you may want to see from such a vague post.

Difference between Hyperion Financial Reporting version 7.0 and 9.3.1 ?

Hi All,
Can you please difine Difference between Hyperion Financial Reporting version 7.0 and 9.3.1 ?

I migrated from 7.5 to 9.3.1 a couple years back so hopefully this is somewhat helpful.
From a developer perspective, the report designer itself looks about the same. The most annoying changes for me were that they started migrating functionality AWAY from the client program and to the web. For instance, managing security is a pain as it is done through Workspace and it is a bit clunkly. I also ran into some issues where my old report's security information is not visible in Workspace. It is still 'working', but when you view report properties, it shows nothing for who has assigned security. Also, things like deleting/moving reports and creating folders are done through workspace and not the client program. "Copying" can be done through the client program by using "Save As" functionality.
There is a migration tool to move your old stuff to 9.3.1. It seemed to work OK; however, the User Interface was a bit screwy. For instance, it said I was 138% complete when it finished. It copied more reports than it showed as existing.... :)
On the back end, things changed quite a bit. In the older Financial Reports, the report objects existing in a single database table and if you wanted to, you could extract everything from that table. In 9.3.1, part of the information is in Workspace database (i.e. Report names/ID's, security access, hierarchy) and the actual report file itself is stored in a psedo-filesystem under the RM webapp. The names are not user friendly at all and you'll need to XREF from the database to make sense of it. When you finally find the actual report "file", they are compressed/encrypted.
From an end user perspective, things pretty much work the same way as always.

Hyperion Financial Reporting-Print Service is not Starting-11.1.2.1

Hi,
We are using Hyperion 11.1.2.1 and when i look at my Hyperion Financial Reporting-Print service it shows me at stopping and when i right click to stop/start it the options are greyed out.
I have completely stopped all the hyperion services and started them again and now the HFR Print service is showing me as Starting.
Kindly help me what should i do to resolve this issue.
You can see the screen shot at my blog.
http://hyperion-consulting.blogspot.in/2012/08/hi-we-are-using-hyperion-11.html
Regards,
AS
Edited by: Don'tKnow999 on Aug 30, 2012 9:52 PM

Hi John,
Thanks a lot for your reply. I saw the log file however i am not able to understand where the issue lies. Can you kindly hlep me out. Below is the FRPrintLogging.log
[2012-08-31T02:42:54.565-04:00] [EPMFR] [ERROR] [] [oracle.EPMFR.core] [tid: main] [ecid: 0000J_vQRewCSs85njp2iZ1GG5mQ000000,0] [SRC_CLASS: com.hyperion.reporting.registry.FRSystem] [SRC_METHOD: lookupHsServer] [[
com.hyperion.reporting.util.HyperionReportException: Could not connect to the server.
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     at com.hyperion.reporting.config.FRConfig.getString(Unknown Source)
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     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:333)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:195)
     at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:182)
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     at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:478)
     at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:375)
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     at org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.createSocket(DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.java:80)
     at org.apache.commons.httpclient.protocol.DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.createSocket(DefaultProtocolSocketFactory.java:122)
     at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpConnection.open(HttpConnection.java:707)
     at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector.executeWithRetry(HttpMethodDirector.java:387)
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     at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:397)
     at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient.executeMethod(HttpClient.java:323)
     at com.hyperion.reporting.registry.FRSystem.getObjectFromURL(Unknown Source)
     at com.hyperion.reporting.registry.FRSystem.lookupHsServer(Unknown Source)
     at com.hyperion.reporting.config.FRConfig.getFRConfig(Unknown Source)
     at com.hyperion.reporting.config.FRConfig.getString(Unknown Source)
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     at com.hyperion.reporting.util.HRPortAllocator.<clinit>(Unknown Source)
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Hyperion Financial Reports books issue

I am trying to generate books using Hyperion Financial reporting in Excel. But, I do see only PDF or HTML options to create books. Is there any other way we can create HFR book in excel with separate tabs for dimenions members in the Page drop down? Please advise.

There isn't an option to create Hyperion Books in Excel, however you can create a Smart View report in Excel and use the cascade feature, which prompts the user to create the dimension to use (it must be in the POV).
This will create a tab per member selected for the report, it will even duplicate charts if you have created them in the base Excel report.
Hope this helps.
Cheers, Iain

Hyperion Financial Reporting Configuration Issue

Hi,
I installed Hyperion Financial Reporting version 11.1.1.1.0 where the Hyperion Web Analysis and Workspace installed in the same server.
I am able to open the Financial Reporting Studio but not able to open HFR through Workspace.
Let me explain you what I did exactly:
1) Installed Reporting and Analysis( HFR)
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3) Checked in Preference to see if Reporting And Analysis is present in the left side, I could see Web Analysis and can create Reports in it.
Then tried to access HFR through Workspace but not working. I updated Context.properties and set reports to Y and then recycled the services but still no luck..
Please correct me if I missed anything to configure the HFR.
Thanks in advance for your help..

This issue was resolved after stopping the Workspace services and ran the Configuration Utility. Now, able to view financial reporting and web analysis reports in workspace...

Not able to change exportfolders value in MBeans for FRConfig.cmd for Hyperion Financial reporting 11.1.2 version.

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5200 : Error in executing query -- Hyperion Financial Reporting

Problem in accessing the Hyperion Financial Reports.User is having full access and able to access all the folders except one folder(Legal Folder reports). We are getting 5200: Error Executing the query error. Recently we have upgraded Hyperion to 11.1.1.3 version . Before upgrade user is not facing the problem. After Upgrade user is getting these errors while accessing the reports. we did research and found in "Error 5200: Error Executing Query" When Viewing Financial Reporting (FR) Reports". Is this error is relevant to the Information provided in Metalink and also can you please tell us is there any impact on doing the solution provided in the below. Why is this error is coming is any preferences needs to be changed.Please help us on this.
Error Description:
5200: Error executing query
Servername/ApplicationName/DatabaseName/Error(1007090) Unknown Member name [Current Point of view for years] in Outline Query
Doc ID 1107142.1:
Possible Cause 1:
If members have recently been added, moved, or deleted from the data source, Essbase, HFM, or Planning, the existing User POV records become out of sync.
The User Point of View record uses indexing to identify the member. If the index changes because of changes in the outline, the User Point of View record no longer points to the correct location in the outline.
To resolve the issue, you need to run the ManageUserPOV utility on a Windows server that has the Financial Reporting Reports Server, or in a Unix or Linux environment, has the Financial Reporting Print Server installed.
You will need to provide a BIPlus Global Administrator user ID and password to run the utility.
The utility will provide the correct syntax to run the command.
1. In \Hyperion\products\biplus\bin\ManageUserPOV.properties, specify the following parameters:
a. ReportServer
b. DatasourceUser
c. DatasourcePassword
d. User
e. Datasource (You can find the datasource in Workspace under Tools>Database Connection Manager in the Name column.)
2. From the command line, cd to Hyerion\products\biplus\bin
3. Type in "ManageUserPOV" without the quotes. The executable will read the parameters previously set in the ManageUserPOV.properties file.
Thanks,
Naresh.

Take a look at this: http://adistrategies.com/index.php?loc=knowledge1&item=291
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Thread: In Hyperion Financial Reporting can we show comments entered in dat

Hi,
I want to show comments in Hyperion financial reports. The data form are against BSO cube and when users enter comments in it they want to see in reports which are against ASO.
Also, if you can help me if it is possible against same cube?

Hi,
I think we can't show it in ASO, but if we have a BSO cube then we have to connect our reports with the Planning data source instead of an Essbase data source and specify on the report to show supporting detail.
You have to do some settings in the FR_Global.properties which are:
AllowCellTextAsAnnotation=true, the Cell Text check box on the Report Property sheet is shown (for Financial Management and Planning, not Essbase yet). The default setting will be unchecked (turned off).
AllowPlanningUnitAnnotationsAsAnnotations=true, the Planning Unit Annotations check box on the Report Property sheet is shown for Planning. The default setting will be unchecked (turned off).
AllowDocAttachmentsAsAnnotations=true, the Document Attachments check box on the Report Property Sheet is shown for Financial Management. The default setting will be unchecked (turned off).
Hope this helps.
Regards
SST.....

In Hyperion Financial Reporting can we show comments entered in data forms?

Hi,
I want to show comments in Hyperion financial reports. The data form are against BSO cube and when users enter comments in it they want to see in reports which are against ASO.
Also, if you can help me if it is possible against same cube?

Hi,
I think we can't show it in ASO, but if we have a BSO cube then we have to connect our reports with the Planning data source instead of an Essbase data source and specify on the report to show supporting detail.
You have to do some settings in the FR_Global.properties which are:
AllowCellTextAsAnnotation=true, the Cell Text check box on the Report Property sheet is shown (for Financial Management and Planning, not Essbase yet). The default setting will be unchecked (turned off).
AllowPlanningUnitAnnotationsAsAnnotations=true, the Planning Unit Annotations check box on the Report Property sheet is shown for Planning. The default setting will be unchecked (turned off).
AllowDocAttachmentsAsAnnotations=true, the Document Attachments check box on the Report Property Sheet is shown for Financial Management. The default setting will be unchecked (turned off).
Hope this helps.
Regards
SST.....

Create unit cost reports in Hyperion Financial Reporting

Hi,
I have some doubts regarding the creation of "per unit" reports in Hyperion Financial Reporting. In the business model we have:
- different cost and revenue groups (identified by accounts dimension)
- different business channels (identified by business channel dimension)
- units different for each business channel (identified by accounts dimension and by currency dimension)
What would be the most efficient way to easily construct per unit reporting? Reporting should be able to show data as:
(*in principle, the "$ per unit" column is the most important one. The other columns could be hidden without problem)
(**the main challenge is to be able to easily reflect per unit values calculated with different units, depending on the business channel and potentially other dimensions)
More precisely, the questions are:
1. What should be the dimensions structure? Units in separate dimension? Or inside accounts dimension and differentiate with currency dimension?
2. The calculation of per unit amounts should be done within the reporting or should it be precalculated value?
2a. If within reporting - how to technically include this calculations? Show $ and units and then use the formula?
2b. If precalculated - how to solve the problem that the TOTAL per unit values are not the sum of per unit values for each Business channel separately (as each Business channel has its per unit calculated only with the units of this Business channel)? (please take into account that Business channel may not be the only dimension that changes the units to be used in per unit calculation - we can also have different units for different cost centers etc.)
3. How to show $ and units separately, as in the example, if, when limiting a row by Revenue, for example, is making the units value for this row 0? How to overcome this?
Many thanks in advance for your help and best regards,
Pawel

I came up with one concept of how to deal with this problem - let me know what you think. The idea is pictured in the image below:
The answers to the 3 questions using this solution would be:
1. What should be the dimensions structure? Units in separate dimension? Or inside accounts dimension and differentiate with currency dimension?
Units would be a separate account in the "accounts" dimension. But also, units could be differentiated by the "currency" dimension.
2. The calculation of per unit amounts should be done within the reporting or should it be precalculated value?
2a. If within reporting - how to technically include this calculations? Show $ and units and then use the formula?
Withing the reporting, as I have no solution to precalculate per unit values using so many different groups of units - if we want to have different per unit per each business channel or cost center etc. I understand we would need that many different precalculated "per unit" values, which would be a lot...
Regarding 2a, a simple formula would do (box C). However, for rows with auto totals, the formula would need to have priority over the autototals (box D) - how is that done? Is it possible and easy?
3. How to show $ and units separately, as in the example, if, when limiting a row by Revenue, for example, is making the units value for this row 0? How to overcome this?
As we can differenciate units using both accounts and currency dimension, with the accounts placed in rows, the elements selected would always include the units (box A). Then, in the columns, using "currency" you would choose whether to show the cost and revenue accounts ($) or units (box B). Like this you would not get 0 in units, neither you would distort $ amounts.
What is your opinion? Best regards!

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