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About Analyzing Forecasts

Forecasts can be analyzed a number of ways.

• Using Charts to Analyze Forecasts. Users can view forecasts by clicking the Chart hyperlink in either the Details view or the Summary view in the Forecasts screen. It is possible to view forecasts by month, quarter, or year from the Chart view. Also, depending on access privileges, users can compare individual forecasts from the My Forecast Analysis view, the My Team's Forecast Analysis view, and the All Forecast Analysis view. In the Forecast Analysis view, users can select or highlight the forecasts they want to compare and the summary data is automatically aggregated. Then they can use the charts to see, for example, revenue by forecast by month.

  To use the Charts view, the Chart Server must be configured.

• Using Reports to Analyze Forecasts. For information about running reports, see Siebel Fundamentals.
• Using Analytics to Analyze Forecasting. For more information about Oracle Business Intelligence Applications, formerly known as Siebel Business Analytics Applications, see the relevant documentation for the version of the software that you are running:
  • For versions earlier than 7.9, see Oracle's Siebel Business Analytics Applications documentation.
  • For versions 7.9 or higher, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications documentation.

    For more information about the analytics platform on which your analytic application runs, see the relevant documentation for the version of the platform that you are running:

  • For versions earlier than 10.1.3.2, see the Siebel Business Analytics Platform documentation.
  • For versions 10.1.3.2 or higher, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition documentation.