Preface
The Oracle Analytics Server Foundation Suite is a complete, open, and integrated solution for all enterprise business intelligence needs, including reporting, ad hoc queries, OLAP, dashboards, scorecards, and what-if analysis. The Oracle Analytics Server Foundation Suite includes Oracle Analytics Server.
Oracle Analytics Server is a comprehensive set of enterprise business intelligence tools and infrastructure, including a scalable and efficient query and analysis server, an ad-hoc query and analysis tool, interactive dashboards, proactive intelligence and alerts, and an enterprise reporting engine.
The components of Oracle Analytics Server share a common service-oriented architecture, data access services, analytic and calculation infrastructure, metadata management services, semantic business model, security model and user preferences, and administration tools. Oracle Analytics Server provides scalability and performance with data-source specific optimized request generation, optimized data access, advanced calculation, intelligent caching services, and clustering.
This guide contains information about building an Oracle BI metadata repository and includes topics on setting up and connecting to data sources, building the Physical layer, Business Model and Mapping layer, and Presentation layer, and how to use the multiuser development environment.
Audience
The intended audience is anyone who plans to design and build a metadata repository using the Model Administration Tool such as a Business Intelligence strategist, metadata provider, or ETL developer.
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Related Resources
For a full list of guides, refer to the Books tab on Oracle Analytics Server Help Center.
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