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Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse Overview
The Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse is a unified data repository for all customer-centric data. The purpose of the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse is to support the analytical requirements of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications. The Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse includes the following: - A data integration engine that combines data from multiple source systems to build a data warehouse.
- An open architecture to allow organizations to use third-party analytical tools in conjunction with the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse using the Oracle Business Intelligence Server.
- Prebuilt data extractors to incorporate data from external applications into the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse.
- A set of ETL (extract-transform-load) processes that takes data from multiple source systems and creates the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse tables.
- The DAC, a centralized console for schema management as well as configuration, administration, loading, and monitoring of the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse.
Figure 1 provides an overview of the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse.
Figure 1. Data Warehouse Overview
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