Analytics Terminology

These are some of the words that might be unfamiliar to you as you read through this guide.

Term	Description
Analytic/Analytics	The broader term used for information pulled from business databases displayed in a way that's meaningful to you. Analytics can include analyses, reports, and dashboards of any form.
Analysis/Analyses	The specific term for one or more analytics that are shown visually on your desktop or mobile devices.
Analytic Work Area	Analytic work areas are pages in the application that you use every day that show analytics related to the work area records. You can configure some work areas to be specific to one or many user roles. You can also configure work areas to show detailed information on a specific record.
Column	The term column in the context of reporting is used to describe the data that populate your analytics. The columns are attributes of the subject area dimensions and you drag the columns to the palette as you build your analytics.
Fact Folders/Facts	The Fact folders contain filters to count or measure the information in your analytics. Facts are pieces of information that are calculated using standard operators such as addition, subtraction, and so on.
Infolet	An infolet is a small container or "widget" on the sales pages that hold an analytic. You can configure the infolet shape and size.
Key Performance Indicator (KPI)	Key Performance Indicators are values that analytics provide to help organizations get a snapshot of information in a particular context.
Navigator	Navigator is represented by an icon with four parallel white lines on the Home page. When you click the Navigator icon you go to a page that shows all the options for users to manage and monitor their sales activities. Administrators see options for managing the application.
Oracle Business Intelligence Answers (BI)	BI is a major work area for analytics administrators. You view, edit, and create analytics and subject areas in BI.
Report	A report is a type of analytic used primarily for published presentation. Types of reports might be financial documents, human resource spreadsheets, and so on. The wizard for building a report walks you through a series of options for formatting the layout of the report.
Sandbox	A sandbox is a testing stage you use to add and view changes to the interface without actually implementing your changes to a live site.
Home Page	The landing page for the application, also called the springboard.
Sales Icon	The Sales Icon links to a page that contains icons with links to all of the major work areas for sales users.
Subject Area	Subject areas are the building blocks of your analytics. You begin building your analytics by choosing an appropriate subject area. Technically, subject areas are a grouping of database inputs called data objects that relate to each other in a particular context.