Databases Reference
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The Oracle Hyperion Financial Performance Management applications address finan‐
cial planning and budgeting and are deployed to Essbase servers. Such applications
include predefined queries, reports, and charts that deliver the kind of information
required for a particular type of business analysis while sparing the business user the
complexity of creating these objects from scratch.
The promise of such prebuilt solutions is that they provide easier-to-deploy solutions
with more out-of-the-box functionality. While some customization will probably always
be needed, the time required to deploy an initial and useful solution can be substantially
reduced.
Data Discovery and Oracle Endeca Information Discovery
Data discovery tools are gaining interest in business communities that want to explore
data without waiting for IT to build a data model and are particularly useful in qualitative
analysis. Oracle's
Endeca
Server provides a multifaceted key/value store into which you
can load structured data (such as that stored in an Oracle Database) and semi-structured
data (such as XML data, text, and Big Data). Loading is via the product's Integration
Suite.
Business analysts using the Endeca Studio interface can perform deep searches across
all of the data. Navigation through the data is based on data context, meaning the analyst
browses through the data without any predefined paths. Data is displayed in charts,
crosstabs, as key metrics, as geospatial information, and as tag clouds.
Figure 10-5
illustrates a typical view in Endeca Studio.
Figure 10-5. Oracle Endeca
Some organizations use the Endeca Server in lieu of building sandboxes in their data
warehouse. Once business value has been identified using Endeca Studio, they
