Visual Analyzer and Best Practices for Data Discovery

Oracle's new Visual Analyzer tool is especially designed for data exploration, whereas traditional OBIEE dashboards tend to be designed for data explanation. How do you provide best practices for how to explore data, since this tends to be more ad-hoc in nature?

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Data Analysis with Various Oracle Business Intelligence and Analytic Tools

Built from business use cases, we cover the advantages and best practice uses of Oracle's BI and analytics offerings from a data analysis perspective. Systems include: OBIEE dashboards including tables, graphs, embedded content, OBIEE map views, BI Publisher, Visual Analyzer, R visualizations from Oracle R Enterprise, Big Data Discovery, Endeca, BI Mobile App Designer.

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Analytic Views Simplify Complex Business Intelligence Queries

Analytic Views (new in Oracle 12.2 and discussed at Oracle OpenWorld 2015) change the way you build analytical applications. Analytic Views are created in a similar way to regular relational views, but add a syntax that allow you to add multiple levels of data and calculations that insulate your application from complex SQL necessary to calculate even simple concepts such as time series, share calculations and aggregations.

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Upgrading to Oracle Business Intelligence 12c

So you've heard about the major new features of Oracle BI 12c, including Visual Analyzer, Data Mashups, and BI Ask, but what's it *really* like to upgrade to BI 12c? Upgrades are not only about tools and techniques, but also about improving and updating your implementation and correcting accumulated problems.

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Advanced Analytics using Oracle DB EE

If you've been wanting to expose your colleagues to the power of using the Oracle Database as a platform for predictive analytics, this special session will be perfect for you. We'll use a combination of live demos and business use cases to explain that predictive analytics doesn't require an advanced degree in mathematics, just a database and a few good business questions.

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