What Oracle Business Intelligence is comprised of
In the preceding chapter, you saw a brief example of the Oracle Discoverer Plus, an Oracle Business Intelligence component, in action. As mentioned previously, this chapter will discuss the components included in the Oracle Business Intelligence and Oracle Business Intelligence Tools suites in more detail, including their installation. Before proceeding to the installation though, let's take a closer look at the Oracle Business Intelligence components, trying to determine "what is what" within it.
Oracle Business Intelligence components
To start with, let's determine what kind of problems the Oracle Business Intelligence components are designed to solve. The following list enumerates these problems:
Structuring data for analysis
Analyzing data
Creating reports
Viewing and sharing reports
Now, you might wonder what Oracle Business Intelligence components are available and which problem each of them is designed to solve. The following is a list...