Preface

Oracle Business Intelligence Applications is comprehensive suite of prebuilt solutions that deliver pervasive intelligence across an organization, empowering users at all levels — from front line operational users to senior management - with the key information they need to maximize effectiveness.

Intuitive and role-based, these solutions transform and integrate data from a range of enterprise sources and corporate data warehouses into actionable insight that enables more effective actions, decisions, and processes.

Oracle BI Applications is built on Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (Oracle BI EE), a comprehensive set of enterprise business intelligence tools and infrastructure, including a scalable and efficient query and analysis server, an ad-hoc query and analysis tool, interactive dashboards, proactive intelligence and alerts, and an enterprise reporting engine.

Audience

This information is intended for system administrators and ETL team members who are responsible for managing Oracle BI Applications.

It contains information about ETL customization, domains and localization, Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse naming conventions, and system administration tasks, including setting up and using Oracle GoldenGate and Source-Dependent Schemas to support ETL performance.

Related Documentation

The Oracle Business Intelligence Applications documentation library contains several related documents.

See http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E51479_01/index.htm for a list of related documents.

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