
It's fairly obvious that some processing must be applied before you can make use of such information. For security purposes, some pieces of information stored in this way may be encoded, or just represented in binary, and therefore not immediately readable. Depending on your needs, though, such groups of information may or may not be immediately useful, and often require additional processing such as filtering, formatting, and/or calculating to take on a meaning.įor example, information about your customers may be organized in a way that is stored in several database tables related to each other. You may be confused even more if you learn that data represents groups of information related to an object or a set of objects. What is the difference between data and the information obtained from it? What is the information obtained from it?
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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. 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. Along the way, we will look at how to take advantage of Discoverer Administrator, Discoverer Plus, and Discoverer Viewer for analysis and reporting. We then move smoothly onto the tools included in the Oracle Business Intelligence SE and Oracle Business Intelligence Tools packages. This practical, example-rich guide starts by explaining concepts behind getting business information from data.

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. The examples in this introductory guide will make you immediately familiar with tools included in the Oracle Business Intelligence package.

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.

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. Business Intelligence (BI) is the process of obtaining business information from available data and today, most businesses use BI to control their affairs.
