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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

Conditional formatting


When you deal with a lot of data on your worksheet, it's always a good idea to highlight some data to make the entire worksheet more readable. For example, you might want to highlight all the items on the worksheet whose values are greater than 500. The following steps illustrate how you might do that:

  1. 1. Select the worksheet cells you want to format and then right-click on the selection:

  1. 2. In the pop-up menu, select Conditional Formats… to open the Conditional Formats dialog:

  1. 3. In the Conditional Formats dialog, click the New Conditional Format… button to open the New Conditional Format dialog.

  2. 4. In the New Conditional Format dialog, select:

    • Total SUM as the item;

    • >= as the condition;

    Then, enter 500 in the far right Value drop-down list, so that the dialog looks like the one shown next:

    Click OK to create the conditional format and return to the Conditional Formats dialog.

  3. 5. In the Conditional Formats dialog, click OK to close it.

Once you've completed the...