Preface

Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One is a comprehensive business intelligence (BI) offering designed for small-to-midsize businesses or departments in larger organizations. It is a complete BI solution that includes interactive dashboards, highly formatted reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, Extract-Transform-Load (ETL), data modeling, and server administration—all in an easy-to-install package with minimal configuration.

Audience

This document is intended for company-level or department-level IT administrators, or for data warehousing or business intelligence specialists.

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Related Documents

In addition to this tutorial, Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One has the following documentation:

• Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One Installation Guide

• Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One component-level Online Help (for example, Oracle BI Answers Help, Oracle BI Administration Tool Help)

You can also refer to the following:

• The Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One Documentation Web site:

  http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/bi_se1.html

• The Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One Product Web site:

  http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/standard-edition-one.html

• The latest information on supported versions is on the Certify application at:

  http://metalink.oracle.com

• The Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One Metalink note 429373.1 is updated periodically as new information becomes available. For the latest information, go to the Oracle MetaLink site at:

  http://metalink.oracle.com

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