1. Creating and Administering Analytics and Reports for Project Management
  2. Overview of Analytics and Reports for Project Management

Overview of Analytics and Reports for Project Management

Oracle Transactional Business intelligence (OTBI) involves analyzing data to gain insight into your reporting needs, gathering information to meet specific requirements, and making informed decisions.

Using Analytics and Reports

You can use different types of predefined analytics and reports, or create and edit them, to support your business needs. Oracle Fusion Cloud Project Management offers predefined analytics and reports across various subject areas. You can use these predefined analytics and reports, or customize them based on your business needs after creating a copy.

You can use OTBI to create analytics and Oracle Analytics Publisher to create reports.

Note: Don't edit predefined analytics and reports directly. If you need to customize them, you can create a copy and edit the copy.

This table describes the purpose of analytics and reports.

Type

Description

Purpose

Analytic

OTBI object such as analysis or dashboard that provides meaningful data.

To help in business decision making.

Analysis

Interactive display of data, for example in a table or graph.

Also referred to as real-time analysis.

To summarize or break down simple, real-time data.

To help you make tactical decisions.

Report

Output of data in a predefined format that provides little or no interaction.

Also referred to as predefined report or output report.

To get high-volume data in a high-fidelity output optimized for printing.

For documents to support internal operations, statutory requirements, and other business needs.

Customizing Analytics and Reports

You can create, edit, and customize analytics and reports for yourself and others if you have appropriate access.

For example, you can:

  • Add or remove columns from an analysis.

  • Change the branding logo on reports.

  • Create an analytic dashboard to include your commonly viewed analyses.

Setup and Administration

There are additional tasks that support creating and editing analytics and reports. For example, your implementor or administrator can:

  • Configure Oracle Analytics Publisher, the tool used for generating and customizing reports.

  • Define flexfields to provide custom attributes that can be used in analyses.

  • Archive and move analytics and reports from one environment to another.