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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

Drilling up and down


As the name implies, drilling down is a technique you can use to float down a drill hierarchy to see data in more detail. And drilling up is the reverse operation, which you can use to slide up a drill hierarchy to see consolidated data. But what is a drill hierarchy?

Working with drill hierarchies

A drill hierarchy represents a set of items related to each other according to the foreign key relationships in the underlying tables. If a worksheet item is associated with a drill hierarchy, you can look at that hierarchy by clicking the drill icon located at the left of the heading of the worksheet item.

Suppose you want to look at the hierarchy associated with the Orddate item located on our worksheet at the top axis. To do this, click the Orddate drill icon. As a result, you should see the menu shown in the following screeenshot:

As you can see, you can drill up here from Orddate to Year, Quarter, or Month. The next screenshot illustrates what you would have if you...