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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

Analyzing and reporting with Discoverer


Some examples of using Discoverer were provided in the first two chapters, giving you some understanding of this Business Intelligence tool. The following sections take a closer look at Discoverer Plus, Discoverer Administrator, and Discoverer Viewer, explaining their features in more detail.

Preparing your working environment with Discoverer Administrator

Before you can start exploring the Discoverer Plus features, though, you need to create a working environment allowing you to look at those features by example. What you'll need is some data stored in the underlying database as well as an EUL making this data available for use in Discoverer. As for the database data, you will use the database already created in the preceding examples. If you've followed the instructions in the Multidimensional data analysis with SQL section of the previous chapter, you should have a database schema with the tables populated with data. If you haven't done it yet, do...