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Oracle Business Intelligence : The Condensed Guide to Analysis and Reporting
Oracle Business Intelligence : The Condensed Guide to Analysis and Reporting

Oracle Business Intelligence : The Condensed Guide to Analysis and Reporting: An introduction to Oracle Business Intelligence Solutions for business analysis and reporting

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Oracle Business Intelligence : The Condensed Guide to Analysis and Reporting

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...

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...

Installing Oracle Business Intelligence software


The following sections will walk you through the steps necessary to obtain and install Oracle Business Intelligence software, which you will need in order to follow the examples throughout the rest of this book.

The software you will need

As mentioned, you have more than one option when it comes to Oracle Business Intelligence software. Currently, the two most popular options are the following:

  • Oracle Business Intelligence suite, part of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2

  • Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer suite, part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1

The first option—the Oracle Business Intelligence suite, part of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2—includes the following components:

  • Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer

  • Oracle HTTP Server

  • Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J)

  • Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control

  • Oracle Application Server Web Cache

  • Oracle Application Server Reports Services...

Summary


In this chapter, you learned how to install and configure an Oracle Business Intelligence solution. In particular, you walked through the steps of installing the Oracle Business Intelligence suite and Oracle Business Intelligence Tools suite, including configuration steps discussed in the "Post-installation tasks" section.

You should now have Oracle Business Intelligence components installed and ready to work on your computer. In the next chapter, we'll step aside and take a look at the Oracle Database Business Intelligence features. Then, in Chapter 4, we'll come back to the Business Intelligence components discussed in this chapter.

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Key benefits

  • Install, configure, and deploy the components included in Oracle Business Intelligence Suite (SE)
  • Gain a comprehensive overview of components and features of the Oracle Business Intelligence package
  • A fast paced, practical book that provides you with quick steps to answer common business questions and help you make informed business decisions
  • Leverage the computational power of Oracle Database

Description

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.

Who is this book for?

If you are an business analyst, a report builder, a DBA, or an application developer who wants to learn how to use the Oracle Business Intelligence platform for analysis and reporting, this is the perfect book for you. Previous knowledge of Oracle Business Intelligence tools is not required, but you should have a competent grasp of using an Oracle Database.

What you will learn

  • Install and configure Oracle Business Intelligence SE suite and Oracle Business Intelligence Tools suite
  • Perform multidimensional data analysis through the prism of SQL
  • Understand database structures behind Business Intelligence metadata components
  • Perform analysis and prepare reports using the Oracle Business Intelligence SE components— Discoverer Administrator, Discoverer Plus and Discoverer Viewer
  • Build, deploy and execute reports using Oracle Reports—Reports Server and Reports Builder
  • Integrate data from different transactional systems and facilitate business analysis with warehousing
  • Take advantage of the slice and dice capability to change the layout or contents of an Oracle BI Discoverer Plus report
  • Arrange data for effective analysis by use of pivoting
  • Drill data up and down and navigate the Discoverer worksheet to process data
  • Use analytic SQL functions to answer business questions
  • Unveil the power of your business data with Oracle Discoverer
  • Analyze data and prepare business reports using Oracle Reports
  • Build a data warehouse with Oracle Warehouse Builder

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8 Chapters
Getting Business Information from Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Introducing Oracle Business Intelligence Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Database Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Analyzing Data and Creating Reports Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Warehousing for Analysis and Reporting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Pivoting Through Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Drilling Data Up and Down Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Advanced Analysis and Reporting Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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