Subject Areas Out of the Box

Subject areas are the building blocks of your visualizations and canvases in Oracle Utilities Analytics Visualization. A visualization is built by choosing an appropriate subject area that has information that answers the business question you’re analyzing.

Technically, subject areas are groupings of information, called data objects, that relate to each other in a particular context. The subject area data comes from data objects pulled from your transactional database. The data is then grouped in a way that is intended to answer a specific set of questions about your organization. Any information your organization tracks can be grouped into a subject area and then used to build analytics.

There are multiple subject areas available in Oracle Utilities Analytics Visualization: asset, meter, and customer subject areas. Each subject area has a prefix to indicate the type of data exposed by it. For example, an asset subject area is prefixed with the word "Asset." See Naming Conventions for more information.

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