About Visualizations

The Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub (Oracle LSH) is integrated with visualization tools, to allow nontechnical users to quickly create onscreen graphical and tabular displays and interactive dashboards of Oracle LSH data. Any Oracle LSH data can be made available for this purpose—freshly loaded source data or merged and transformed data.

You make data available to the visualization tool by defining one or more Business Areas in Oracle LSH. You define Table Descriptors in a Business Area and map them to Table instances. The visualization tool can read data contained in the Table instances to which the Table Descriptors are mapped. An Oracle LSH Business Area corresponds to an Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Repository and a particular visualization can see data through a single Business Area. Your company may support other visualization tools and an Oracle LSH Business Area of that type may correspond to an element in those visualization tools.

You can also define Joins between the Table Descriptors and Hierarchies (drill-down structures) of Columns in the same Table Descriptor or in joined Table Descriptors. Joins and Hierarchies help determine how visualizations can compare and organize data; see Defining Joins and Defining Business Area Hierarchies.

When you launch a Visualization tool from a Business Area or from the Visualizations subtab of the Reports tab, you can choose to see non-current and blinded data, if you have the appropriate privileges, through the Launch Settings screen. If you open OBIEE directly (not from within Oracle LSH) you can view only current and not blinded data regardless of your privileges.

Reports on Business Area Definitions and Instances: From the Actions drop-down list, you can generate reports that provide information on a Business Area definition or instance; see System Reports for information.