Chapter 2. Introducing Oracle Business Intelligence

You know by now that Oracle Business Intelligence allows you to go beyond simple database-driven applications with the help of SQL queries to derive information from the data being collected and stored. Oracle Business Intelligence is implemented as a collection of components grouped into suites, which are part of either Oracle Application Server or Oracle Fusion Middleware. As you will learn in this chapter, however, Oracle Business Intelligence is not limited to those components alone. Oracle Database also provides a number of natively supported Business Intelligence features, such as data warehousing, Online Analytical Processing (OLAP), and analytic SQL functions. These features will be discussed in more detail in the next chapter, as well as in Chapter 5, Warehousing for Analysis and Reporting, which is dedicated to data warehousing.

This chapter covers getting up and running with Oracle Business Intelligence, including the following...