Working with Oracle Analytics
In the Oracle Analytics Server (OAS), you can work with:
Analysis
This area of Oracle Analytics is also known as Answers. Analysis are queries against an organization's data that provide answers to business questions. Analysis allows you to explore and interact with information by visually presenting data in easy-to-understand formats (such as tables and graphs). You can save, organize, and share the results of analysis. Your organization might also have purchased prebuilt analysis specific to your industry. Pre-built analysis can be used as purchased or modified to suit the information needs of your business.
Dashboards
This area of Oracle Analytics is also known as Interactive Dashboards. Dashboards provide personalized views of corporate and external information. A dashboard consists of one or more pages that contain content, such as analysis, links to Web sites, Oracle Analytics Publisher reports, and so on. Dashboards allow you to provide end users with access to analytics information. Your organization might also have purchased preconfigured dashboards that contain prebuilt analysis specific to your industry.
Filters, Selection Steps, and Prompts
Filters, selection steps, and prompts allow you to limit or specify the data that is displayed in dashboards and analysis.
Agents
This area of Oracle Analytics is also known as Delivers. Agents enable you to automate your business processes. You can use agents to provide event-driven alerting, scheduled content publishing, and conditional event-driven action execution. Agents can be scheduled or can be triggered by a specific condition, which enables you to deliver timely information to users.
Conditions
Conditions are objects that return a single Boolean value that is based on the evaluation of an analysis or of a Key Performance Indicator (KPI). You use conditions to determine whether something is to be done, for example whether an agent is to deliver its content.
Actions
Actions provide functionality to navigate to related content or to invoke operations, functions, or processes in external systems. You can include actions in various objects, such as analysis and dashboard pages. Actions allow users to take the proper action based on the business insight that they gained from the data that they received.
Scorecards
This area of Oracle Analytics is known as Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management. Scorecards allow you to model the objectives and initiatives that comprise your corporate strategy, evaluate their performance by assigning KPIs, and determine and display overall performance.
Other Products
Oracle Analytics interacts in various ways with other products. For example, with the Oracle Analytics Add-in for Microsoft Office, you can access and run analysis from Oracle Analytics directly within your Microsoft Office workspace.
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