These included:
Reports services
These services are discussed earlier in the ???Development tools??? section.
Discoverer
Discover is a tool that business analysts use to obtain business intelligence data
from an Oracle database. The analysts use Discoverer to query and retrieve data
via a browser-based interface and to manipulate it in a variety of ways, including
drill down, pivoting, and changing the layout and presentation of data into various
forms, such as tabular and crosstab forms. Administrators set up an End
User Layer to simplify complex access to multiple data sources, complete with
appropriate aggregation. Because Discoverer can also present data in a graphical
format, Figure 15-1 is worth the remaining thousand words of description. Discoverer
is also available as part of the Oracle Business Intelligence Suite.
We cover all of Oracle??™s current business intelligence tools and the Oracle database
as used for data warehousing in more depth in Chapter 10.
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Integration
Integration is a broad area that encompasses bringing together information from
different sources.
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