Summary

This chapter gave you some detailed examples of how you might use the Oracle Business Intelligence components for analysis and reporting. In particular, you looked at the Oracle Discoverer components, including Discoverer Administrator, Discoverer Plus, and Discoverer Viewer. Then, the chapter proceeded to another Oracle Business Intelligence component, Oracle Reports, explaining how you might use Reports Server and Reports Builder for building, deploying, and executing reports.

In the next chapter, you will look at how you can use the Oracle data warehousing feature for analysis and reporting. After a brief look at the architecture issues, the chapter will cover how to build a data warehouse, using a design tool such as Oracle Warehouse Builder.