Analyzing Sales History Information using OracleBI Discoverer Plus Relational

Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Plus Relational (Discoverer Plus Relational) is an ad hoc query and analysis tool. It allows end users at all levels of the organization to gain immediate access to data from a data warehouse, data mart, or transactional system.

Discoverer Plus Relational is an intuitive tool that is easy to learn and use. End users can create simple or complex queries without having to write a single line of SQL code. Creating or modifying a query is as easy as pointing and clicking or dragging an item to a worksheet from a predefined business area (a business-oriented view of the data). In addition to being easy to learn and use, Discoverer Plus Relational is a powerful tool that leverages the analytic power of the Oracle database. It satisfies the needs of novices, as well as sophisticated power users and data analysts.

Business users can use Discoverer Plus Relational to create reports that can be shared easily with other users, including company executives. Reports can be viewed on the Web using Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Viewer (Discoverer Viewer) or they can be published to corporate and departmental portals or executive dashboards.

Reports can be printed using high-fidelity printing, and results can be exported to Microsoft ® Excel, XML, CSV, Adobe Acrobat PDF, and other formats.

In this Oracle by Example series of lessons, you will learn how to:

	Connect to a Discoverer Plus Relational data source
	Create ad hoc queries and advanced reports, using many Discoverer Plus Relational analytic techniques
	Export and share report results

These lessons are designed to be completed in sequence. Click on the desired lesson below to show the instructions.