Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 11g Handbook

by Michael Armstrong-Smith, Darlene Armstrong-Smith

Overview

Provide secure, immediate access to critical business information from relational and multidimensional data sources across your organization. Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 11g Handbook shows you howto optimize this intuitive ad hoc query, reporting, analysis, and web publishing tool for maximum performance. Real-world examples illustrate the powerful analysis, security, and reporting capabilities. Enable businessusers at all levels to make faster, more-informed decisions with help from this Oracle Press guide.

• Configure and manage Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer 11g
• Run functional queries using the Workbook Wizard
• Add sorts, calculations, percentages, totals, and parameters using Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus
• Format queries into well-organized reports with graphs, tables, titles, headers, and footers
• Perform data analysis—statistical, classification, deviation, trend, and aging
• Use Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer 11g to analyze, format, export, e-mail, and print reports
• Manage integration with Oracle WebLogic Server
• Refine existing queries using interactive pivoting, drilling, and hyper-drilling
• Build effective conditions and refine parameters, calculations, sorting, and percentages
• Manage access and sharing rights, scheduling privileges, and user preferences
• Build an end user layer and a business area using Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Administrator
• Use Oracle Enterprise Manager's Fusion Middleware Control feature to manage Oracle Business IntelligenceDiscoverer settings and preferences
• Implement powerful analytic functions using templates

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071804301
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	11/08/2013
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	1152
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 7.40(h) x 2.20(d)

About the Author

Michael Armstrong-Smith is the Principal Consultant for Armstrong-Smith Consulting. A fellow of the Institute of Analysts and Programmers and a member of Oracle's customer advisory board on business intelligence, he has over 20 years of systems development experience. Michael is a frequent conference speaker and has spoken on Oracle Discoverer at conferences in Hawaii, Orlando, and Toronto. He is the coauthor of Oracle Discoverer Handbook (Oracle Press, 2000) and Oracle Discoverer 10g Handbook (Oracle Press, 2004).

Darlene Armstrong-Smith is Senior Curriculum Developer for Armstrong-Smith Consulting, an instructional designer, and a professional trainer. She has 18 years’ experience designing and implementing system conversion training, and also as an adult vocational educator. Darlene has served as a training consultant to financial institutions, a national brokerage firm, a major Alaskan hotel chain, and various other institutions. She is the coauthor of Oracle Discoverer Handbook (Oracle Press, 2000) and Oracle Discoverer 10g Handbook (Oracle Press, 2004).

Darlene Armstrong Smith (Fremont, CA) has seven years experience as a professional trainer and instructional designer for The Money Store.