Common Elements Used in Fusion Campus Solutions Intelligence for PeopleSoft

An object in the physical layer of the repository that contains information about the connection between the Oracle BI Server and the data source.

Represents the organization of logical columns (attributes) that belong to a single logical dimension table. Examples of dimensions are Admit Type, Academic Program, Academic Plan, and Institution. In dimensions, you can organize attributes into hierarchical levels. These levels represent your institution reporting requirements.

Represents numeric performance measurement information (measures or calculated data), such as applicant count or admission percent, that can be specified in terms of dimensions. For example, you may want to determine the total number of enrollees for a specific school and career, for a specific term.

Filters are built into requests and are used to limit the results that appear on a dashboard. A report that appears on a dashboard shows only those results that match the filter criteria. Filters are applied on a column-level basis.

Certain filters inherit the values that users specify in dashboard prompts. A prompt is another kind of filter that can apply to all items in a dashboard. Some prompts, such as date or period, can be common to all dashboards. Other prompts, such as admit type, are unique to a specific dashboard. Prompts are synonymous with parameters.

See Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards User Guide, "Filtering Requests in Oracle BI Answers."

In the Oracle BI Presentation Services user interface, folders provide the ability to organize an Oracle BI Web Catalog and its contents, such as reports.

A link to navigate to the transaction processing application, another dashboard, or a URL. This link can be set up to appear conditionally based on the results of a report or key performance indicator.

Strategic organizational factors that are used for reporting. KPIs are designed to monitor performance on strategic organizational factors such as enrollment or tuition amount.

A component within the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition technology that is used to create ad hoc queries into an organization's data. Oracle BI Answers provide a set of graphical tools to create and execute requests for information. Requests can be saved in the form of reports, and shared, modified, formatted, or embedded in a dashboard.

A comprehensive suite of enterprise business intelligence products that contain the programs, servers, and tools to support broad, self-service access across the organization. OBIEE is the foundation for the Fusion Campus Solutions Intelligence application.

A proactive intelligence solution that provides business activity monitoring and alerting for out-of-tolerance situations to target owners and subscribers.

Collections of content that are designed to meet the needs of particular user roles. A dashboard is the user interface that provides a knowledge worker with intuitive, interactive access to information that is actionable and dynamically personalized, based on the individual's role and identity.

A collection of subject areas that are defined in the metadata repository layer.

The building blocks of business intelligence dashboards. Requests are created by using Oracle BI Answers to retrieve and display an organization's data. Data can be displayed in a variety of graphical formats. Links can be established in the chart or table of a report to launch another report to offer guided analysis.