Interactive Reportin vs Web Analysis

Hi all
I've a question about Interactive Reporting (IR).
I know that I can design a report based on Multidimensional DB using Web Analysis (WA), Financial Report (FR), and IR.
3 ways to get data from same DB. I don't know so well IR, so I ask: According to your experience and knowledge, in which situations you advice to use IR?
Usually, I rely on Web Analysis, sometimes I use FR when I need particular formatting that I can't do using Web Analysis.
My client (future, I hope, now it's just a prospect) has many report done with IR, I cannot analyze them. He says they're slow. Any issue related to performance or other things?

Hi WVanSluys,
Thanks for the response. Does OBIEE 11g have dashboard capabilities that can build dashboards from multidimensional data source such as Essbase? The reason I ask this question is that we have two different teams working at this client: one for implementing Oracle EBS and the other Oracle Hyperion (I am part of Hyperion team). The next phase of our project involves implementing OBIEE. If I am understanding you right, Web Analysis (or for that matter, Interactive Reporting) is NOT needed if OBIEE is being implemented?
Hi Iain,
Thanks for the reply.
Regards,
Abhi

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Financial reportin,Interactive reporting and web analysis

Hi,
Could anyone help me in what kind of reports exactly generates by the above 3 tools.How we will generate reports using financial reporting.i mean to say what process we will follow .
In a financial domain project , what we will do exactly with the above three tools.
I am quite interested to know as much info as i can on these 3 tools.
replies will be highly appreciated.

This is quite a big subject and you need to do more investigation, but as a starter for ten (these are high level views only)
Financial Reporting - is used to create high quality, high format reports - ideal for finance based use
Web Analysis - is used as a more interactive visual tool, with emphasis on exceptions/graphs and drilling etc
Interactive reporting - is one of the old Brio tools and is more of a BI reporting tool
There is a Query and Reporting forum at Hyperion Query and Reporting that might be useful to post on.
Hope this helps.
Andy King
http://www.analitica.co.uk

Interactive Reporting vs. Web Analysis

Hi,
I have been working at a client's location to create financial reports using Hyperion Financial Reporting (version 11.1.1.3). My client now has a requirement for dashboards for upper-management users. I did not see any features in Financial Reporting that can enable me to create dashboards. Hence, I am trying to fix on either Web Analysis or Interactive Reporting to accomplish dashboard reporting for the client. Can anyone let me know which is a better tool for creating dashboards? Are there any advantages/limitations of one over the other?
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions.
Regards,
Abhi

Hi WVanSluys,
Thanks for the response. Does OBIEE 11g have dashboard capabilities that can build dashboards from multidimensional data source such as Essbase? The reason I ask this question is that we have two different teams working at this client: one for implementing Oracle EBS and the other Oracle Hyperion (I am part of Hyperion team). The next phase of our project involves implementing OBIEE. If I am understanding you right, Web Analysis (or for that matter, Interactive Reporting) is NOT needed if OBIEE is being implemented?
Hi Iain,
Thanks for the reply.
Regards,
Abhi

Web analysis, SQR Production Reporting, and maybe Interact Rpting are dead?

Hi,
I dont wish to hurt anyone but would like to know the facts from experts.
Look Smarter blog says "Web analysis, SQR Production Reporting, and maybe Interactive Reporting are dead?"
http://looksmarter.blogspot.com/search/label/Top10
Is this true?
Thanks,
Shashi

Hi Mehmet,
thank you. I could not answer on friday, was not at office.
I tried according to the instructions of oracle ( http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E17236_01/epm.1112/pr_studio/frameset.htm?data_connection.html ). See comments:
To create an Essbase data source connection:
1. OK
Select Connection on the main SQR Production Reporting Studio screen.
The Create Data Connection wizard is displayed.
2. OK
On the first page, enter a name to identify the data connection.
For example, you could enter Essbase to identify a connection to an Essbase data source.
3. OK
On the second page, select DDO to identify the data source provider.
4. NOT OK. The messages shown: "Unable to start the JVM. Ensure that the JRE section of the SQR.INI file contains the correct directory. (4)"
"Unable to erad DDo Registry.Properties file. Check location and accessibility, an that the sqr.ini DDO pathvariable settings are correct (DDO.3)."
On the third page, select an Essbase data source.
The wizard displays the available registries and data sources.
Seems some setting problems. We would check that. Any suggestions to that error??
Ole

Web Analysis vs. Interactive Reporting

What is the difference between those two? 

I will see if I can explain. As pointed out my "bksinha", web analysis in hyperionanalyzer and interactive reporting is brio/hyperionintelligence. Differences <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="1" width="100%"><tr><td width="50%">Web Analysis</td><td width="50%">Interactive Reporting</td></tr><tr><td width="50%">Good for ad-hoc analysis</td><td width="50%">Good for canned reporting</td></tr><tr><td width="50%">Very user friendly and small learning curve. Userscan themselves create reports easily.</td><td width="50%">More of a technical tool and requires technicalresource to be set up.</td></tr><tr><td width="50%">No scheduling</td><td width="50%">Schedule reports</td></tr><tr><td width="50%">Cannot email reports</td><td width="50%">Schduled reports can be emailed</td></tr><tr><td width="50%">Simple installation and configuration comapred toInteractive reporting.</td></tr></table> There would be more difference and maybe other people canchip-in

Differences between Hyperion Workspace, Web Analysis and Financial Reportin

Hello,
Can anybody explain me the differences between Hyperion Workspace, Web Analysis and Financial Reporting?
Thank you

In real simple terms....
Financial reporting - Perfect for producing standardised monthly reporting such as P&L, balance sheets etc. Highly formatted, print well in PDF format.
Web Analysis - Highly graphical, web based analysis tool more suited to dashboards, pinboards etc with slice and dice capability.
Workspace - Common environment where reporting content in deployed. Users can access web anlysis, fin reports, Interactive reports plus other content through the workspace. It was the start of the 'log on to one place for all reporting' concept instead og logging on to multiple products.
Hope that helps
Regards
CD

Interactive reporting using web client in Hyperion Workspace

Hi all,
I was trying to create a new interactive report using following process:
1)Logon to Workspace using browser
2)File -> New -> document
3)select the option: "Create interactive reporting document"
4)Browse for .oce file
5)Click finish, once the .oce file is selected.
After these steps:
Initially I was getting message regarding checking web client status...
this was taking lots of time so I cancelled the process and restarted from step 1.
Now, after step 5, I am getting a file save option showing source of file as server of the Workspace.I am working on a local machine and accessing the workspace product through web browser.
If I save this file in local machine I don't get an option to open this file from workspace using :
File -> open -> document.
and alternatively if try to open this locally from the machine I don't have proper application on my local machine.
I am badly trapped in this viscious circle.... Kindly help.
Also, it will be gr8 if somebody could suggest some link for understanding the process of creating a new interactive report , using web client on workspace.
Thanks in advance..
Edited by: user12973893 on May 5, 2010 3:40 AM

Hi all,
I got to know that import and export option is available with "user->reports" and "file in report folder" respectively, when we go for Explore option.
So storing to local machine and retrieving it back is no more a problem.
But still I have hardly any idea as to how to start with interactive reporting in Workspace using web client.
If any of you come across any such tutorial on interactive reporting using web client on workspace please tell.
I come to know that Interactive reporting studio is available for interactive reporting purpose: any of you please tell me if "reporting and analysis client.." available on oracle edelivery is sufficient for interactive reporting studio or we need to install something specific for working with Interactive reporting studio.

Cascade Feature in Web analysis

Hi all,
I just wanted to know if there is any way to cascade Web analysis report (11.1.2 version) like the way we do it in excel addin. If no, any alternative suggested?.
Thanks

Hi
I'm not aware that there is but I would ask why do you want to?
Web Analysis is intended for interactive use, if you need to batch output a whole bunch of reports based on a variable POV then I would suggest that Financial Reporting is the better tool (although I completely accept that the formatting may not be nice)
Regards
Stuart

Wrting back in IR and web analysis

how do you write back in web analysis and Interactive reporting to the database

You can use Web Analysis to write back to Essbase as long as the user has access and the intersections you are writing to are editable (not a calc, etc).
To do this you can access the 'Edit Data' feature from the right click menu or you could put a 'Services' button on the report/dashboard so the user doesn't have to go to the right click menu.
There are two types of Edit Data service buttons. One is a normal Edit Data button which will edit whichever data object (i.e. grid, chart, etc) is "in focus" or has been selected. The 'Assign Edit Data' button allows you to pick which data source the Edit Data will be assigned to ahead of time when setting up the button.
You will have to test these in the Workspace, though. I don't think the Edit Data buttons were supported in the Workspace; however, I hear that in 9.3.1 they are now.

Use of Web Analysis

Hello Experts,
As per my knowledge web analysis is used for interactive reporting.
Please share with me if you have more information about web analysis.
thank you for your assistance.
Regards,
Kumar

IR is for to create pivots, charts and dashboards.
Webanalysis is for adhoc reporting and also it'll supports drill through to relational and Traffic lighting.
Both are supports reporting from relational & multidimentional databases.
Kiran

Web Analysis is not working

Hi,
I recently installed Hyperion BI+ in my server and I'm trying to do some reports in Web Analyzer.
My installation and configuration went successfull.
I can open FR, IR ..
I'm trying to open WorkSpace and Web Analysis...
both are not working...
When Im trying to open web analysis using the below URL Im getting error..
http://<servername>i:19000/WebAnalysis/WebAnalysis.jsp
but when I'm using this URL http://<Servername>i:16000/WebAnalysis/WebAnalysis.jsp
I can see the open page.. but the Web Analysis window is not coming.. I'm getting blank page...
and for workspace also.. when I'm using 45000 port.. it is working but I cannot open any reports.. some debug error is coming..
when I'm using the default port 19000.. Im getting network error...
Please help me in this issue..
Do I need to do any modifications in my configuration or property files....
my Java application is Tomcat(default).. databases is Oracle 10G Enterprise Edition.

Hi,
Regarding Web Analysis- I believe- It's a problem of JRE.
- Just remove/uninstall the JRE from your Currently installed Programs. You may want to reboot the m/c
- Open Web Analysis Studio in the Web browser. Now, since it can't find JRE, it'll set up the relevant JRE for you & you may continue using Web Analysis.
- Please note- Unless you've changed to a different one during configuration, Web Analysis operates on 16000 port.
Check the following regarding Workspace-
- Your service may be down, thus, throwing Network error
- You may've to re-configure Workspace. Start the service & wait for few mins. before opening Workspace.
- Natesh

Issue while opening the web analysis reports

Hi,
One of our user is not able to open a web analysis report with an error messages saying
"Java.Lang.Exception: Unexpected HTTP status code of 500 received from server"
"Document does not exist or no authorization to open the document"
Other users with the same level of access are able to open the report fine and also the same user is able to access the report fine with a test id from his machine.
What could be wrong? Any suggestions please.
The only thing I see here, something wrong with userd ID or password.
Thanks
Prasad

Hi,
I had also faced this problem earlier. I was using HFM as data source for WA reports. After searching I found that there was some change at HFM level. Some dimensions/members had been deleted or added in HFM. And I was using those missing members in WA Grid.
I had to recreate my reports again as I didn't get any other way to deal with this problem.
Please shared any other alternative option, if you found while working on this issue.
Thanks & Regards,
Mohit Jain

Issue opening Web Analysis report

I create, with buttons, links between reports in web analysis. Sometimes when I click on one of them in workspace, it doesn't open linked report, but another one. Furthermore this last one is automatically saved as the previous report, and I can't open the original linked report. Any suggestion about this ?
Thanks in advance.

Hi Natesh,
Thanks for your reply to my query posted in this forum. Please find my inline answers between asterisk to your questions:
Whatz the source of your Grid? Relational SQL Query (OR) A spreadsheet with Essbase database connection file?
* Yes, the source is Essbase.*
If source is Essbase, it seems- Outline might've got altered when you're trying to refresh the report.
* The outline was in tandem when we tried running this report in WebAnalysis. This outline & WebAnalysis report which is in Dev Server is a replica of the one in Test Server where it runs fine. *
If source is based on a Relational SQL query, chances are that- Query is no longer valid.
* NA as this statement is NOT applicable to our source.*
If it's Essbase, it's also likely that- It ran out of time while fetching the data from Essbase. You may try playing around with the parameters in Essbase.cfg file.
* This might be one of the causes, but I double checked the all the tunning parameters in Essbase.cfg file in place.*
Could you please through more observation on this issue. Let me know if any further information is needed!.
Thanks for your time.
Regards,
Krishan
Edited by: user10475612 on Nov 8, 2009 1:07 PM
Edited by: user10475612 on Nov 8, 2009 1:09 PM
Edited by: user10475612 on Nov 8, 2009 1:12 PM

Unable to open web analysis reports through workspace

Hi,
I am connecting web analysis with MSSQL server 2000 and generating reports. I am using essbase 9.3.1 version.
But my problem now is that I can just open these reports from web analysis studio and cannot open them from workspace. In workspace, if I right click on the report and open it from web analysis studio it does open. But it does not open by double clicking the report in workspace. It just shows a blank report on just parts of the report.
The issue is only there for the reports that are getting data from relational db (MSSQL server 2000). The other reports that are using the cube data are fine and opening from everywhere.
Are there any other configuration settings involved in order to open a web analysis report(that uses relational db) from workspace?
Thanks in advance,
John

Hi Atul,
Try using the in built config checker:
http://localhost:16000/WebAnalysis/config
This has several tests you can perform to see what's running.

Regarding web analysis data export issue

Hi all,
Iam new to web analysis we had a issue on one of the report
I can open the report and i can work perfectly on the report but when i export the data to excel its showing up as fallowing error
FATAL ERROR: gui report is inccorect
In the same application i have some other reports those are working fine and data is being exported to excel for those reports
What might be going with that report Please let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks,
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As report was exceding 65000 records we have modified the report by adding the pages and reduced the count of output records. So the issue was resolved.

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