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 in the catalog, not in...