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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By : Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan
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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By: Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan

Overview of this book

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 12c is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management, and security. OBIEE can help any organization to understand its data, to make useful information from data, and to ensure decision-making is supported by facts. OBIEE can focus on information that needs action, alerting users when conditions are met. OBIEE can be used for data analysis, form production, dashoarding, and workflow processes. We will introduce you to OBIEE features and provide a step-by-step guide to build a complete system from scratch. With this guide, you will be equipped with a good basic understanding of what the product contains, how to install and configure it, and how to create effective Business Intelligence. This book contains the necessary information for a beginner to create a high-performance OBIEE 12c system. This book is also a guide that explains how to use an existing OBIEE 12c system, and shows end users how to create.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Integrated tools


Several BI tools are now integrated into the Oracle BI main Presentation Server application. The tools and features that are integrated into the Presentation Server (using the Oracle-defined names) are as follows (you can see some of them in the following screenshot):

  • Dashboards

  • Analysis and Interactive Reporting

  • Published Reporting

  • Mobile Application

  • Actionable Intelligence

  • Performance Management

  • Marketing

  • Administration

  • Briefing books

  • Search

  • Help

  • Mapping

  • RSS feeds

  • Office integration

  • Data Exploration and Discovery - Visual Analyzer (new in 12c)

Answers

Answers is a part of the system that enables the creation of analysis objects. These are the queries and requests for information that return rows of data from a data source (such as an Oracle database). The resulting set of records can be presented by the analysis in a variety of layouts, for example, in a table of columns or as a chart. The important point to note is that the request for information is saved...