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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By : Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan
Book Image

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

Analysis building - more details


Now we have introduced the rudimentary basics of creating an analysis, let's look at the options when building effective analyses in more detail.

First, we need to create a new analysis to work on, in the same way we did in the preceding section:

  1. Click on New.

  2. Click on Analysis.

  3. Pick the Subject Areas (choose Sample Sales Lite again).

    The page you are presented with has the following sections (marked here with green squares):

  • Menu Bar: This is where we can navigate to other content, or create new content.

  • Subject Areas: This is where we can explore and choose from the attributes and Measures that we previously set up in the .rpd file. Normally, you would use a single Subject Area, but you can add other Subject Areas by clicking on the little box icon. Subject Areas will consist of Measures that are on one or more Fact tables, and attributes, that come from one or more dimensions. The Subject Area was defined in the .rpd file.

  • Columns: Once we have chosen objects...