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Oracle Analytics: Business Intelligence
and Analytic Applications
Oracle lumps together several disparate application areas into what they
have designated as Oracle Business Analytics, as shown in Figure2.1. As
a purist, and for the sake of ease of understanding, I have decided that
Chapter 2 will focus on just those areas that most IT folks do consider to
be analytically oriented—business intelligence and analytic applications,
highlighted in Figure2.1 by using a darker gray coloring.
e focus of the Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) suite is to enable the
enterprise to accelerate decision making. Oracle BI tools and technology
provide a ...