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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