Entries by Adam Getz

Components of Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) – Oracle Delivers

Oracle Delivers is a component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite that provides activity monitoring and alerting that can reach users via multiple channels such as: •  Email •  Dashboards •  Mobile devices Oracle Delivers includes a web-based self-service alert creation and subscription portal, and a workflow engine that allows for initiation and […]

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Components of Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) – Oracle Publisher

Oracle Publisher (formerly XML Publisher) is a component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite is an enterprise-level operational reporting tool that separates the data from the presentation. This means that developers from the information technology department can define the data sources, and business users can specify the report layout. The same data source […]

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Components of Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) – Oracle Answers

Oracle Answers is a component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite that provides ad-hoc query and analysis capabilities to end-users.  Users can processes data from multiple data sources in a pure web environment. In addition, users are isolated from underlying data structures as they view and work with a logical view of the information.  This logical view […]

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Components of Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) – Oracle Interactive Dashboards

Oracle Interactive Dashboards is a presentation component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) suite and provides versatile, web-based dashboards that displays information in a highly-intuitive format to help end-users’ decision making.  The user interface is completely graphical while access to the information is interactive and based on the individual’s role and identity. Further, the user […]

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Differences in Oracle BI (Platform vs. Analytical Applications)

A key way to understand the differences between the Oracle BI Platform and Oracle BI Analytical Applications is to identify that the platform contains the environment and tools for custom building business intelligence solutions, while the analytical applications contain complete, pre-built solutions that can be rapidly configured. Oracle BI Analytical Applications utilize all of the tools within […]

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Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Analytical Applications

Rather than just being a platform or development environment, Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Analytical Applications are fully inclusive business intelligence solutions that incorporate all of the key metrics, workflows, and business processes for a particular business function.  Bundled within theses solutions are numerous pre-built components including: •  Dashboards •  Metrics •  Reports •  Drill-down paths […]

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Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Platform

The Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Platform is a set of functions and tools that incorporate a number of advanced business intelligence products.  In addition to providing a broad set of functions and tools, the Oracle BI Platform is built upon a proven, modern web services-oriented architecture that provides the foundation of the construction of complete […]

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Types of Enterprise Data (Transactional, Analytical, Master)

All business enterprises have three varieties of physical data located within their numerous information systems.  These varieties of data are characterized by their data types and their purpose within the organization. • Transactional Data • Analytical Data • Master Data Transactional data supports the daily operations of an organization (i.e. describes business events). Analytical data […]

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Three Steps in ETL Processing

The term ETL which stands for extraction, transformation, & loading is a batch or scheduled data integration processes that includes extracting data from their operational or external data sources, transforming the data into an appropriate format, and loading the data into a data warehouse repository. ETL enables physical movement of data from source to target data […]

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Advantages of KPI Scorecarding

A KPI scorecard is a solution that allows organizations to manage their organizational performance by linking operations with strategy. The scorecard monitors the execution of strategic objectives at each level of the organization and ensures a consistent understanding at all levels of the organization’s priorities and expectations. Scorecards can be utilized at all levels of […]

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