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 of the information is presented to the user in business terms. The interface of Oracle Answers is highly-intuitive and enables end-users to create:
- • Queries
- • Data tables
- • Interactive charts and graphs
- • Pivot tables
- • Reports
- • Prompts
Oracle Answers provides a point-and-click interface that allows end-user to develop robust ad-hoc queries and reports. Users simply drag-n-drop fields to create layouts with reports, queries, and charts on the right-hand side of the application. Data fields are subsequently on listed on the left-hand side.
In addition, Oracle Answers is tightly integrated Oracle Interactive Dashboards. Reports, prompts, tables, charts, & graphs created in Oracle Answers can be easily saved, shared, modified, formatted, or integrated within dashboards of the Oracle Interactive Dashboards application.
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[…] Oracle Answers is the reporting tool that comes with OBIEE, and it’s the part of the tool users interact with most. So, it’s important to understand how basic tasks like charts and pivot tables are performed, as they aren’t as straightforward as in the more mature and intuitive Microsoft Excel. For example, building a pivot table with Oracle Answers requires you to create a measure column, add the column to the report, and then insert the pivot function, as compared to a simple click in Excel that launches the pivot wizard. This complexity translates to more training—and more steps and time—for users. […]
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