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Overview of Oracle BI Applications
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Overview of Oracle BI Applications
This chapter provides an overview of Oracle BI Applications. It includes the following
topics:
Section 2.1, "What Is Oracle BI Applications?"
Section 2.2, "Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse Overview"
Section 2.3, "Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse Architecture"
Section 2.4, "Roadmap to Installing and Configuring Oracle BI Applications"
Section 2.5, "Using Oracle BI Repository Documentation"
2.1 What Is Oracle BI Applications?
Oracle BI Applications is a pre-built business intelligence solution.
Oracle BI Applications supports Oracle sources, such as Oracle E-Business Suite
Applications, Oracle's Siebel Applications, Oracle's PeopleSoft Applications, Oracle's
JD Edwards Applications, and non-Oracle sources, such as SAP Applications. If you
already own one of the above applications, you can purchase Oracle Business
Intelligence Enterprise Edition and Oracle BI Applications to work with the
application.
Oracle BI Applications also provides complete support for enterprise data, including
financial, supply chain, workforce, and procurement and spend sources. These
enterprise applications typically source from both Oracle data sources, such as Oracle
EBS and PeopleSoft and non-Oracle data sources, such as SAP.
Oracle BI Applications consists of the components shown in
Table 21
.
Table 21
Oracle BI Applications Components (with Informatica/DAC)
Component
Description
DAC Repository metadata files
This content includes repository objects such as
tables, subject areas, execution plans, and tasks.
These files are installed in a ZIP file named
export.zip, which you must extract.
Informatica PowerCenter ETL tool
This is a third-party ETL platform that performs the
extract, transform, and load (ETL) operations for the
data warehouse.
Pre-built Informatica content
This content includes ETL repository objects, such as
mappings, sessions, and workflows, and is contained
in the Informatica Repository file (Oracle_BI_DW_
Base.rep).