Compare the Analysis Editor and BI Composer

The Analysis editor provides additional editorial tools compared to BI Composer’s more simple analysis features.

The Analysis editor and BI Composer share a similar purpose, in that both are analytical components that power intelligent business process decision making. Collaboration fueled through exploration, analysis, sharing, and visualizations, allows business users at all levels to glean insight into data. BI Composer and the Analysis editor differ however, in that BI Composer is more suitable for simple analyses that don't contain advanced analytic functions such as calculated items, selection steps, and multiple conditions. Sophisticated and highly structured analyses should be edited by using the Analysis editor.

What Types of Views Can I Work with in BI Composer?

BI Composer allows you to quickly and simply create or edit analyses.

The table describes the views with which you can work and the options available in BI Composer to enhance the analyses.

View or Option	Description
Table	You can have a table, summary table, pivot table, or summary pivot table. A table can have prompts and sections.
Graph	You can have various types of graphs: Bar - Vertical, horizontal, vertical stacked, horizontal stacked, 100% vertical stacked, or 100% horizontal stacked Line Scatter Pie Line-Bar A graph can have various sections: Prompts Sections Group By Vary Color By Slices (for a pie graph) Points (for a scatter graph)
Conditional formatting	See the BI Composer wizard -- Create Analysis: Highlight panel for information.
Column formula	See the BI Composer wizard -- Create Analysis: Select Columns panel for information.
Filter	See the BI Composer wizard -- Create Analysis: Sort and Filter panel for information.
Interaction	Allows you to specify what happens when you click a value. You can drill, navigate to a transaction, or do nothing by specifying None.
Sort	See the BI Composer wizard -- Create Analysis: Sort and Filter panel for information.