[...]... 6 126 Business Intelligence Tools Oracle Portal and Portal Products 127 128 Using Oracle Portal Building and Deploying Oracle Portal and Portlets Reporting BI/XML Publisher Oracle Reports Oracle BI Reporting Workbench (Actuate) Ad hoc Query and Analysis Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Discoverer and Business Intelligence Standard Edition Oracle Spreadsheet Add-ins Building Business Intelligence. .. Introduction Chapter 1: Oracle Business Intelligence A broad introduction of Oracle business intelligence is provided Topics introduced include Oracle s transactional business intelligence, integration components, and components in custom-built data warehouses and business intelligence solutions Chapter 2: Oracle s Transactional Business Intelligence Sometimes called operational business intelligence, this... Contents Chapter 2 Oracle s Transactional Business Intelligence Transactional Business Intelligence Business Terminology Oracle s Daily Business Intelligence 27 28 28 30 How DBI Works Varieties of DBI 33 34 Balanced Scorecards 45 Oracle Balanced Scorecard Structure OBSC Architecture Creating an Oracle Balanced Scorecard Data Hubs The Oracle Customer Data Hub How Data Hubs Work Other Oracle Data Hubs 46 48... Hubs Work Other Oracle Data Hubs 46 48 48 49 49 51 51 Is Transactional Business Intelligence Enough? Chapter 3 52 Introduction to Oracle Data Warehousing Oracle Data Warehousing Basics 53 54 Oracle Database Analysis and Schema Considerations Managing an Oracle- based Data Warehouse Where to Start? Oracle/ PeopleSoft EPM Oracle/ Siebel Business Analytics Applications Choosing Completely Custom Chapter 4... include high availability considerations, manageability considerations, and approaches to benchmarking Part II: Custom-Built Data Warehousing Solutions Most business intelligence solutions today are custom built Part II describes design approaches and deploying and managing business intelligence tools and an Oracle data warehousing database These are explained in the following five chapters Chapter 5:... deploying Oracle s wide array of business intelligence tools, including portals, reporting, and ad hoc query and analysis tools The Oracle Business Intelligence Suites (Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition) are covered In addition, the Oracle database support provided by business intelligence tools available from other vendors is described Chapter 7: Data Loading Embedded extraction, transformation, and. .. Page 4 Oracle Business Intelligence Defined deploy transactional business intelligence and data warehousing solutions We also discuss some of the platform strategies for deployment After the introductory first section of this book, we describe in much greater detail the area of business intelligence that you are probably most interested in: custom-built data warehousing solutions using Oracle databases... Part Chapter 1: Oracle Business Intelligence Chapter 2: Oracle s Transactional Business Intelligence Chapter 3: Introduction to Oracle Data Warehousing Chapter 4: Choosing a Platform 04_919216 pt01.qxp 11/21/06 10:02 PM Page 2 05_919216 ch01.qxp 11/21/06 9:59 PM Page 3 CHAPTER 1 Oracle Business Intelligence Business intelligence can be defined as having the right access to the right data or information... transactional business intelligence and incorporate data warehousing concepts Among Oracle E -Business Suite and PeopleSoft EPM offerings, a number of common business intelligence applications are provided including a balanced scorecard, activity-based management, and enterprise planning and budgeting applications In addition, the Oracle E -Business Suite has Daily Business Intelligence We’ll briefly describe... systems, data warehouses, and business intelligence solutions Today, there are many books that describe data warehousing and design approaches There are many books that describe business intelligence There are many books that describe the Oracle database So you may be asking, why did the authors decide to write this book? The fact is, the authors of this book still hear comments from many of you that business . Greenwald Oracle ® Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions 01_919216 ffirs.qxp 11/21/06 10:28 PM Page iii Oracle ® Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence Solutions Published by Wiley. Service 11 Custom Data Warehouse Solutions 12 The Role of the Oracle Database 14 Oracle Warehouse Builder 15 Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition 16 Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise. Introduction to Oracle Data Warehousing 53 Oracle Data Warehousing Basics 54 Oracle Database Analysis and Schema Considerations 55 Managing an Oracle- based Data Warehouse 64 Where to Start? 70 Oracle/ PeopleSoft