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Oracle Business Intelligence : The Condensed Guide to Analysis and Reporting

By : Yuli Vasiliev
Book Image

Oracle Business Intelligence : The Condensed Guide to Analysis and Reporting

By: Yuli Vasiliev

Overview of this book

Business Intelligence (BI) is the process of obtaining business information from available data and today, most businesses use BI to control their affairs. With Business Analysis and Reporting in Oracle Business Intelligence, you can quickly learn how to put the power of the Oracle Business Intelligence solutions to work. To jump start with analysis and reporting of data on an Oracle Business Intelligence SE platform and to keep the process of learning simple and interesting requires numerous annotated examples.The examples in this introductory guide will make you immediately familiar with tools included in the Oracle Business Intelligence package. This book will teach you how to find answers to common business questions and make informed business decisions as well as helping you to use Oracle Business Intelligence SE platform and prepare database for analysis. This practical, example-rich guide starts by explaining concepts behind getting business information from data. We then move smoothly onto the tools included in the Oracle Business Intelligence SE and Oracle Business Intelligence Tools packages. Along the way, we will look at how to take advantage of Discoverer Administrator, Discoverer Plus, and Discoverer Viewer for analysis and reporting. You will also learn how to build, deploy and execute reports using Oracle Reports, and integrate data from different data sources with warehousing, employing Oracle Warehouse Builder software. Covering advanced Oracle Business Intelligence features, this book will teach you how to pivot data, drill it up and down, as well as display it visually in graphs.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence: The Condensed Guide to Analysis and Reporting
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Summary


While the preceding chapters discussed Business Intelligence through the prism of visual Oracle Business Intelligence tools such as Discoverer, this chapter stepped aside and looked at how to use SQL, a native tool of Oracle Database, to get answers to business questions based on the database data. In particular, you looked at the advanced SQL features designed to summarize data, such as ROLLUP and CUBE extensions of the GROUP BY clause in SELECT statements.

Turning back to the Business Intelligence components from the Oracle Business Intelligence suite discussed in the preceding chapters, this chapter shed some light on how the metadata used by Discoverer is organized in the underlying Oracle database. In particular, you looked at the database structures behind EULs, which are needed in order to work with Discoverer.

The next chapter will come back to the discussion of the Oracle Business Intelligence suite, providing a detailed look at its components. Aside from Discoverer Plus...