Oracle BI Presentation Services

Oracle BI Answers is a user interface that is part of the Oracle BI Presentation Services component of Oracle BI Intelligence.

Oracle BI Answers is the embedded reporting tool that allows users with the appropriate permissions to build and modify reports that let end users explore and interact with information, and drill in place to source data. The Fusion Campus Solutions Intelligence application contain prebuilt reports that are generated from metadata in the repository, which is mapped to metadata in EPM warehouses. You can access these reports either from the delivered dashboards, or from the Oracle Answers Catalog pane on the Oracle Answers page.

On the Oracle Answers page, you can also access the subject area folders that coincide with Oracle BI Presentation Catalog folders. The fact and dimension folders and columns appear in a subject area folder, just as they do in the Presentation Catalog.

The Oracle BI Dashboards user interface is part of the Oracle BI Presentation Services component of Oracle BI Intelligence.

Interactive Dashboards provide points of access for analytics information. A dashboard is made up of sections of information that can contain items such as results from Oracle BI Answers, external Web content, HTML text, graphics, and links to other dashboards. Dashboard content is logically organized into pages. The pages appear as tabs across the top of the screen in Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards.

A dashboard page is designed to meet the needs of a particular role. For example, the Admissions and Recruiting Analysis dashboard page is designed for campus recruiters who want to analyze recruiting effectiveness and admission trends.

To access a dashboard, your PeopleSoft user ID must be assigned to the appropriate Presentation Catalog group in Oracle BI Intelligence. Your PeopleSoft application security settings determine the data that you can see on each dashboard. For example, managers can view performance activity only for the business units and departments for which they are responsible.

Every dashboard or report can have a set of prompts that determine the data that appears. When you change the value of a prompt on a dashboard, and click the Go button, the system automatically refreshes the data on the dashboard. Changing a prompt can affect the amount of data, the column headings, the KPI values, and the graph formats.

See .Understanding Security Configuration Types

The Oracle BI Web Catalog stores the application dashboards and report definitions, and contains information regarding permissions and accessibility of the dashboards by groups. Prebuilt web catalog content is maintained in the folder named EPMMaster.