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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

Chapter 3. Working with Database Data

As mentioned earlier, Oracle Business Intelligence is not limited to only the Oracle Application Server solutions discussed in the preceding chapter. Oracle Database itself has a lot to offer when it comes to Business Intelligence. To better understand which Oracle Database features can be regarded as Business Intelligence features, it would be wise to recall what Business Intelligence is all about. Returning to the discussion about the Business Intelligence basics in Chapter 1, you might recall that Business Intelligence is first of all about answering analytical business questions.

So, if you've got used to visual tools, this chapter encourages you to branch out of your comfort zone, and gives you a chance to understand manually written SQL code. You might be surprised as to just how much SQL can offer when it comes to answering analytical business questions based on the data you have stored in the database, as well as in external sources.

In this chapter...