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Oracle Analytics: Business Intelligence
and Analytic Applications
Oracle lumps together several disparate application areas into what they
have designated as Oracle Business Analytics, as shown in Figure 2.1. As
a purist, and for the sake of ease of understanding, I have decided that
Chapter 2 will focus on just those areas that most IT folks do consider to
be analytically oriented—business intelligence and analytic applications,
highlighted in Figure 2.1 by using a darker gray coloring.
The focus of the Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) suite is to enable the
enterprise to accelerate decision making. Oracle BI tools and technology
provide a broad set of capabilities for reporting, analysis, modeling, and
forecasting using a dashboard format, as shown in Figure 2.2.
Oracle BI consists of the following tools:
1. Oracle Business Intelligence Tools and Technology
2. Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine
3. Oracle Business Intelligence for Analyzing Big Data
4. Oracle Endeca Information Discovery
5. Oracle Real-Time Decisions
Oracle Analytic Applications cascades the BI framework, through use of
the various BI tools, down to the specific industry (i.e., Education, Public
Sector, Health, Financial Services, Retail, etc.) and/or business line (i.e.,
sales, human resources, project management, procurement, customer ser-
vice, supply chain, etc.). Oracle is also neatly integrated into a variety of
external tool suites (some product lines acquired by Oracle), such as JD
Edwards EnterpriseOne, Siebel CRM, and SAP.
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