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Introduction

Installing and configuring Hyperion can seem a little daunting at first. For a start the Oracle media pack for “Hyperion Performance Management and BI (9.3.1)” contains some 55 DVDs – even sorting these into some semblance of order is going to take some time. Then you’ll discover that the installation documentation alone occupies an entire DVD: its 33 cryptically named zip files each contain multiple documentation files – and not a “readme” in sight. Working through the many thousands of pages of installation documentation is an unenviable task.

Fortunately, installing and configuring Hyperion is not as difficult as the documentation makes it seem. In this set of articles we’ll take you through installation and configuration using a blow by blow set of screen dumps to illustrate each step. We’ll select the simplest set of options so that you can get Hyperion up and running as quickly as possible.

Components

When it comes to organizing Hyperion media or documentation, you’ll find it useful to think in terms of the following components:

Foundation Services

Shared Services
Smart View for Office

Essbase

   Essbase System 9
   Administration Services
   Integration Services
   Provider Services
   Smart Search

Reporting and Analysis

   Interactive Reporting
   Financial Reporting
   SQR Production Reporting
   Web Analysis

Financial Performance Management Applications

   Planning
   Financial Management
   Performance Scorecard
   Strategic Finance

Data Management

   Data Integration Management
   Translation Management
   Financial Data Quality Management
   Data Relationship Management
   Data Relationship Management Web Publishing

Documentation

The media pack contains two documentation DVDs, one entitled “Enterprise Performance Management System Release 9.3.1 Start Here: Installation Documents and Readmes”, and the second “Enterprise Performance Management System Release 9.3.1 Product Documentation”.

Begin your journey with the “Start Here” DVD. Unzip the master file, and navigate to the “English” folder. All the files in this folder contain installation information relating to different Hyperion components. To help you find your way around the documentation, the acronyms translate as follows:

Acronym	Description
aps	Provider Services
dim	Data Integration Management
dimaas	Data Integration Management Adapter for Essbase
dimafm	Data Integration Management Adapter for Financial Management
dimahp	Data Integration Management Adapter for Planning
eas	Essbase Administration Services
eis	Essbase Integration Services
esb	Essbase
fdm	Financial Data Quality Management
hbi	Reporting and Analysis
hfm	Financial Management
hp	Planning
hps	Performance Scorecard
hsf	Strategic Finance
hss	Shared Services
hsys	Installation
mdm	Data Relationship Management
mdmwp	Data Relationship Management (Web Publishing)
odiafm	Oracle Data Integrator Adapter for Hyperion Financial Management
odiap	Oracle Data Integrator Adapter for Hyperion Planning
osop	Oracle Strategic Operational Planning
ss	Enterprise Performance Management Smart Space
ssch	Smart Search
sv	Smart View for Office

The key documentation installation zip file is “hsys9_93100_install.doc.zip”. This zip file contains the master documentation installation file “hsys9_install_start_here.pdf”. Most of this PDF consists of tables detailing hardware and software requirements and version compatibilities with other products. The key installation chapter is chapter 10, “Installation Sequence”.

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