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About Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics

Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics allows you to view analytics data, Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards, and queries when you cannot connect to the network to access the Oracle Business Intelligence application. Typically, disconnected users connect their personal machines (usually laptops) to a server that runs Oracle Business Intelligence. After downloading an Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics application, they can disconnect their laptops from the network (for example, to travel on a business trip) and still view dashboards and queries on their laptop machines. For more information about using Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics on a disconnected machine, see Oracle Business Intelligence Disconnected Analytics Online Help.

Table 2 contains definitions of terms that are used to describe Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics.

Oracle Business Intelligence provides the following disconnected solutions:

• Oracle BI Briefing Books allow disconnected users to put a static snapshot of Oracle Business Intelligence content on their laptops to access when they are working offline. You can use the static content in Oracle BI Briefing Books for tasks such as managed reporting and lightweight content distribution. Oracle BI Briefing Books can be scheduled and delivered using iBots and are available as part of Oracle Business Intelligence. For more information about Oracle BI Briefing Books, see Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards User Guide.
• Managed Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics is centrally administered and managed. It provides most functionality that is available in the network-based Oracle Business Intelligence application. After populating their local databases, disconnected users connect to a local dashboard through a browser and see the same information that they see on the Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards on Oracle Business Intelligence.

NOTE:  In this guide, Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics refers to managed Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics. The disconnected database, disconnected repository, and other disconnected components are interchangeably referred to as disconnected or local. When Oracle Business Intelligence is used to describe components, it refers to components of the network-based Oracle Business Intelligence application. For example, Oracle BI Server refers to the network-based Oracle BI Server.