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This glossary defines terms for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. See also the Oracle Fusion Middleware Master Glossary for additional terms and definitions.
action
Provides functionality to navigate to related content or to invoke operations, functions or processes in external systems. You can include actions in analyses, dashboard pages, agents, scorecard objectives, scorecard initiatives, and KPIs.
See also action link.
Action Framework
The Action Framework is a component of the Oracle BI EE architecture and includes a J2EE application called the Action Execution Service (AES) and actions-specific JavaScript functionality deployed as part of Oracle BI EE. The action framework also includes client-side functionality for creating actions and invoking certain action types directly from the browser.
action link
A link to an action that you have embedded in an analysis, dashboard page, scorecard objective, scorecard initiative, or KPI that, when clicked, runs an associated action.
See also action.
ADF Business Intelligence Component
Provides the developer the ability to include Oracle BI Presentation Catalog objects in ADF Applications. This component uses a SOAP connection to access the catalog.
Administration Server
Part of the WebLogic server domain and runs the processes that manage Oracle Business Intelligence components. The Administration Server includes the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console, Oracle Fusion Middleware Control, and JMX MBeans. For a Simple Install type, the Administration Server also includes Java components for Oracle Business Intelligence such as Oracle BI Publisher and Oracle Real-Time Decisions.
See also Fusion Middleware Control, Java components and Managed Server.
advanced trellis
A trellis view that can display multiple visualization types within its grid, for example, Spark Line graphs, Spark Bar graphs, and numbers. Each visualization type displays a different measure.
You can think of an advanced trellis as a pivot table, except that for each measure you add to the pivot table, you can optionally associate a dimension and render that dimension as a spark graph visualization.
See also trellis and visualization.
agent
Enables you to automate your business processes. You can use agents to provide event-driven alerting, scheduled content publishing, and conditional event-driven action execution.
Agents can dynamically detect information-based problems and opportunities, determine the appropriate individuals to notify, and deliver information to them through a wide range of devices (email, phones, and so on).
aggregate persistence
A feature that automates the creation and loading of aggregate tables and their corresponding Oracle Business Intelligence metadata mappings to enable aggregate navigation.
aggregate table
A table that stores precomputed results from measures that have been aggregated over a set of dimensional attributes. Each aggregate table column contains data at a given set of levels. For example, a monthly sales table might contain a precomputed sum of the revenue for each product in each store during each month. Using aggregate tables optimizes performance.
aggregation rule
In an Oracle BI repository, a rule applied to a logical column or physical cube column that specifies a particular aggregation function to be applied to the column data, such as SUM.
In Presentation Services, users can see the rules that have been applied in the repository. Users can also change the default aggregation rules for measure columns.
alias table
A physical table that references a different physical table as its source. You can use alias tables to set up multiple tables, each with different keys, names, or joins, when a single physical table must serve in different roles. Because alias table names are included in physical SQL queries, you can also use alias tables to provide meaningful table names, making the SQL statements easier to read.
analysis
A query that a user creates on the Criteria tab in Presentation Services. An analysis can optionally contain one or more filters or selection steps to restrict the results.
See also filter and selection step.
analysis criteria
Consists of the columns, filters, and selection steps that you specify for an analysis.
See also analysis.
analysis prompt
A prompt that is added to an analysis. When the user selects a prompt value, that value then determines the content that displays in the analysis that contains the prompt, only.
See dashboard prompt and prompt.
attribute
The details of a dimension in an Oracle BI repository. Attributes usually appear as columns of a dimension table.
attribute column
In Presentation Services, a column that holds a flat list of values that are also known as members. No hierarchical relationship exists between these members, as is the case for members of a hierarchical column. Examples include ProductID or City.
See hierarchical column.
BI Composer
BI Composer is a simple-to-use wizard that enables you to quickly and easily create, edit, or view analyses without the complexities of the Analysis editor.
BI domain
Contains configurable system components (the coreapplication) and Java components (the WebLogic server domain), and includes the web-based management tools and applications that use resources.
A BI domain can be a set of middleware homes spread across one or more physical servers.
See also BI instance.
BI object
A piece of business intelligence content that is created with Presentation Services and saved to the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. Examples of BI objects include analyses, dashboards, dashboard pages, scorecards, and KPIs.
BI Search
A search tool that resides outside of Presentation Services. BI Search is available from the Home Page after the administrator adds a link to the BI Search URL. BI Search provides a mechanism for searching for objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog that is similar to a full-text search engine.
bookmark link
Captures the path to a dashboard page and all aspects of the page state.
See prompted link.
bridge table
A table that enables you to resolve many-to-many relationships between two other tables.
business model
An object in the Oracle BI repository that contains the business model definitions and the mappings from logical to physical tables. Business models are always dimensional, unlike objects in the Physical layer, which reflect the organization of the data sources. Each business model contains logical tables, columns, and joins.
Business Model and Mapping layer
A layer of the Oracle BI repository that defines the business, or logical, model of the data and specifies the mapping between the business model and the Physical layer schemas. This layer can contain one or more business models.
The Business Model and Mapping layer determines the analytic behavior that is seen by users, and defines the superset of objects available to users. It also hides the complexity of the source data models.
business owner
The person responsible for managing and improving the business value and performance of a KPI or scorecard object, such as an objective, cause & effect map, and so on.
cause & effect map
A component of a scorecard that lets you illustrate the cause and effect relationships of an objective or KPI.
See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
chronological key
A column in a time dimension that identifies the chronological order of the members within a dimension level. The key must be unique at its level.
Cluster Controller
A process that serves as the first point of contact for new requests from Presentation Services and other clients. The Cluster Controller determines which Oracle BI Server in the cluster to direct the request to based on Oracle BI Server availability and load. It monitors the operation of servers in the cluster, including the Oracle BI Scheduler instances. The Cluster Controller is deployed in active-passive configuration.
column
In an Oracle BI repository, columns can be physical columns, logical columns, or presentation columns.
In Presentation Services, indicates the pieces of data that an analysis returns. Together with filters and selection steps, columns determine what analyses contain. Columns also have names that indicate the types of information that they contain, such as Account and Contact.
See also analysis, attribute column, hierarchical column, and measure column.
column prompt
A type of filter that enables you to build specific value prompts on a data column to either exist alone on the dashboard or analysis or to expand or refine existing dashboard and analysis filters.
See also prompt.
complex join
A join in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository that uses an expression other than equals.
condition
Objects that return a single Boolean value based on the evaluation of an analysis or of a key performance indicator (KPI). You use conditions to determine whether agents deliver their content and execute their actions, whether actions links are displayed in dashboard pages, or whether sections and their content are displayed in dashboard pages.
See also action, action link, agent and key performance indicator (KPI).
connection pool
An object in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository that contains the connection information for a data source.
See also Physical layer.
content designer
The user who creates business intelligence objects such as analyses, dashboards, and scorecards.
contextual event action
A predelivered action that uses the Action Framework to pass content from the business intelligence object to another region on an ADF page.
See also action, Action Framework, and action link.
cube
An OLAP (online analytical processing) data structure that lets data be analyzed more quickly and with greater flexibility than structures in relational databases. Cubes are made up of measures and organized by dimensions. Cubes in multidimensional data sources roughly correspond to star schemas in relational database models.
currency prompt
A prompt that enables the user to change the currency type that displays in the currency columns on an analysis or dashboard.
See also prompt.
custom view
A component of a scorecard that lets you show a customized view of your business and strategy data.
See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
dashboard
An object that provides personalized views of corporate and external information. A dashboard consists of one or more pages. Pages can display anything that you can access or open with a web browser, such as results of analyses, images, alerts from agents, and so on.
dashboard prompt
A prompt that is added to the dashboard. When the user selects a prompt value, that value then determines the content that displays in all analyses that are included on the dashboard.
See analysis prompt and prompt.
Dashboard URL
Used for incorporating or referencing the content of a specific dashboard in external portals or applications. It has several forms and optional arguments that you can use to control its behavior.
data source name (DSN)
A data structure that contains the information about a specific database, typically used by an ODBC driver to connect to the database. The DSN contains information such as the name, directory, and driver of the database.
Connection pool objects in the Physical layer of the Oracle BI repository contain DSN information for individual data sources.
database hint
Instructions placed within a SQL statement that tell the database query optimizer the most efficient way to execute the statement. Hints override the optimizer's execution plan, so you can use hints to improve performance by forcing the optimizer to use a more efficient plan. Hints are supported only for Oracle Database data sources.
dimension
A hierarchical organization of logical columns (attributes). One or more logical dimension tables might be associated with at most one dimension.
A dimension might contain one or more (unnamed) hierarchies. There are two types of logical dimensions: dimensions with level-based hierarchies (structure hierarchies), and dimensions with parent-child hierarchies (value hierarchies).
A particular type of level-based dimension, called a time dimension, provides special functionality for modeling time series data.
See also hierarchy.
dimension table
A logical table that contains columns used by a particular dimension. A dimension table cannot be a fact table.
See also fact table.
driving table
A mechanism used to optimize the manner in which the Oracle BI Server processes multi-database joins when one table is very small (the driving table) and the other table is very large.
event polling table
Event polling tables (also called event tables) provide information to the Oracle BI Server about which physical tables have been updated. They are used to keep the query cache up-to-date. The Oracle BI Server cache system polls the event table, extracts the physical table information from the rows, and purges stale cache entries that reference those physical tables.
Essbase
A multidimensional database management system available from Oracle that provides a multidimensional database platform upon which to build business intelligence applications. Also referred to as Oracle's Hyperion Essbase.
fact table
In an Oracle BI repository, a logical table in the Business Model and Mapping layer that contains measures and has complex join relationships with dimension tables.
See also dimension table.
filter
Criteria that are applied to attribute and measure columns to limit the results that are displayed when an analysis is run. For measure columns, filters are applied before the query is aggregated and affect the query and thus the resulting values.
See also prompt and selection step.
focus node
The center circle of a strategy contribution wheel. For a strategy contribution wheel, the focus node represents the starting objective of the diagram.
See also strategy contribution wheel and focus trail.
focus trail
A series of chained circles that represent the node in the center of the strategy contribution wheel and any of its ancestors that are included in the diagram. Each circle displays the status color of its corresponding node.
See also strategy contribution wheel and focus node.
foreign key
A column or a set of columns in one table that references the primary key columns in another table.
fragmentation content
The portion, or fragment, of the set of data specified in a logical table source when the logical table source does not contain the entire set of data at a given level. Fragmentation content is defined by the logical columns that are entered in the Fragmentation content box in the Content tab of the Logical Table Source dialog box.
Fusion Middleware Control
Provides web-based management tools that enable you to monitor and configure Fusion Middleware components.
global header
An object in the user interface for Oracle BI Presentation Services that contains links and options that enable the user to quickly begin a task or locate a specific object within the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. The global header always displays in the Presentation Services user interface, thus enabling users to quickly access links and search the catalog without having to navigate to the Home Page or Catalog page.
Go URL
Used to incorporate specific business intelligence results into external portals or applications. The Go URL is used when you add a result to your favorites or add a link to a request to a dashboard or external web site. It has several forms and optional arguments that you can use to control its behavior.
hierarchical column
In Presentation Services, a column that holds data values that are organized using both named levels and parent-child relationships. This column is displayed using a tree-like structure. Individual members are shown in an outline manner, with lower-level members rolling into higher-level members. For example, a specific day belongs to a particular month, which in turn is within a particular year. Examples include Time or Geography.
See also attribute column.
hierarchy
In an Oracle BI repository, a system of levels in a logical dimension that are related to each other by one-to-many relationships. All hierarchies must have a common leaf level and a common root (all) level.
Hierarchies are not modeled as separate objects in the metadata. Instead, they are an implicit part of dimension objects.
See also dimension, logical level, and presentation hierarchy.
hierarchy level
In Presentation Services, an object within a hierarchical column that either rolls up or is rolled up from other levels. Corresponds to a presentation level in an Oracle BI repository.
See also presentation level.
home page
Provides an intuitive, task-based entry way into the functionality of Presentation Services. The Home page is divided into sections that enable you to quickly begin specific tasks, locate an object, or access technical documentation.
image prompt
A prompt that provides an image with different areas mapped to specific values. The user clicks an image area to select the prompt value that populates the analysis or dashboard.
See also prompt.
initialization block
Used to initialize dynamic repository variables, system session variables, and nonsystem session variables. An initialization block contains the SQL statements that are executed to initialize or refresh the variables that are associated with that block.
initiative
Used in a scorecard, an initiative is a time-specific task or project that is necessary to achieve objectives. As such, you can use initiatives that support objectives as milestones as they reflect progress toward strategy targets.
See also objective and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
inner graph
A nested graph, inside the grid of a trellis graph. Each inner graph has its own dimensionality as specified in the Visualization area of the Layout pane.
See also trellis and outer edge.
Java components
Fusion Middleware Control components that are deployed as one or more Java EE applications (and a set of resources) and are managed by Node Manager.
See also Node Manager.
key performance indicator (KPI)
A measurement that defines and tracks specific business goals and strategic objectives. KPIs often times roll up into larger organizational strategies that require monitoring, improvement, and evaluation. KPIs have measurable values that usually vary with time, have targets to determine a score and performance status, include dimensions to allow for more precise analysis, and can be compared over time for trending purposes and to identify performance patterns.
See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
KPI watchlist
A method of distributing KPIs to end users. A watchlist is a collection of KPIs that are built by adding the KPIs that are stored in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog. After a KPI watchlist is built and saved, it is stored as a catalog object and can be added to dashboards and scorecards.
See also key performance indicator (KPI), watchlist, and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
logical display folder
Folders used to organize objects in the Business Model and Mapping layer of an Oracle BI repository. They have no metadata meaning.
logical join
Joins that express relationships between logical tables. Logical joins are conceptual, rather than physical, joins. In other words, they do not join to particular keys or columns. A single logical join can correspond to many possible physical joins.
logical level
In an Oracle BI repository, a component of a level-based hierarchy that either rolls up or is rolled up from other levels.
Parent-child hierarchies have implicit, inter-member levels between ancestors and descendants that are not exposed as logical level objects in the metadata. Although parent-child hierarchies also contain logical level objects, these levels are system generated and exist to enable aggregation across all members only.
Logical SQL
The SQL statements that are understood by the Oracle BI Server. The Oracle BI Server Logical SQL includes standard SQL, plus special functions (SQL extensions) like AGO, TODATE, EVALUATE, and others.
Clients like Presentation Services send Logical SQL to the Oracle BI Server when a user makes a request. In addition, Logical SQL is used in the Business Model and Mapping layer to enable heterogeneous database access and portability. The Oracle BI Server transforms Logical SQL into physical SQL that can be understood by source databases.
logical table
A table object in the Business Model and Mapping layer of an Oracle BI repository. A single logical table can map to one or more physical tables. Logical tables can be either fact tables or dimension tables.
See also dimension table and fact table.
logical table source
Objects in the Business Model and Mapping layer of an Oracle BI repository that define the mappings from a single logical table to one or more physical tables. The physical to logical mapping can also be used to specify transformations that occur between the Physical layer and the Business Model and Mapping layer, and to enable aggregate navigation and fragmentation.
Managed Server
An individual J2EE application container (JMX MBean container). It provides local management functions on individual hosts for Java components and system components contained within the local middleware home, and refers to the Administration Server for all of its configuration and deployment information.
See also Administration Server and Fusion Middleware Control.
MDS
Oracle Metadata Services. A core technology of the Application Development Framework. MDS provides a unified architecture for defining and using metadata in an extensible and customizable manner.
See also MDS XML.
MDS XML
An XML format that is compatible with Oracle Metadata Services. MDS XML is a supported format for the Oracle BI repository. It enables integration with third-party source control management systems for offline repository development.
MDS XML format is different from the XML format generated by the Oracle BI Server XML API.
See also MDS, Oracle BI repository, and Oracle BI Server XML API.
measure column
A column that can change for each record and can be added up or aggregated. Typical measures are sales dollars and quantity ordered. Measures are calculated from data sources at query time.
Measure columns are displayed in the Oracle BI repository, usually in fact tables, or in Presentation Services.
metadata
Data about data. Metadata objects include the descriptions of schemas (such as tables, columns, data types, primary keys, foreign keys, and so on) and logical constructs (like fact tables, dimensions, and logical table source mappings).
The Oracle BI repository is made up of the metadata used by the Oracle BI Server to process queries.
metadata dictionary
A static set of XML documents that describe metadata objects, such as a column, including its properties and relationships with other metadata objects. A metadata dictionary can help users obtain more information about metrics or attributes for repository objects.
microchart
A tiny graph displayed in a grid along with other tiny graphs and numbers, comprising the data cell contents of an advanced trellis view. In Oracle BI EE, a microchart is always a spark graph.
See also advanced trellis and spark graph.
mission statement
A statement in a scorecard that specifies the key business goals and priorities that are required to achieve your vision.
See also vision statement and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
multi-database join
A join between two tables in an Oracle BI repository, where each table resides in a different database.
Node Manager
A daemon process that provides remote server start, stop, and restart capabilities when Java processes become unresponsive or terminate unexpectedly.
See also Java components.
object properties
Information about an object and attributes that the owner can assign to an object. Examples of properties include name, description, date stamps, read-only access, and do not index flag.
See also permissions.
objective
A required or desired outcome in a scorecard that forms your corporate strategy.
See also initiative and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
offline mode
In the Oracle BI Administration Tool, a mode where a repository builder can edit a repository that is not loaded into the Oracle BI Server.
online mode
In the Oracle BI Administration Tool, a mode where a repository builder can edit a repository while it is available for query operations. Online mode also allows user session monitoring for users connected to the subject areas in the repository.
opaque view
A Physical layer table that consists of a SELECT statement. In the Oracle BI repository, opaque views appear as view tables in the physical databases, but the view does not actually exist.
Open Database Connectivity (ODBC)
A standard interface used to access data in both relational and nonrelational databases. Database applications can use ODBC to access data stored in different types of database management systems, even if each database uses a different data storage format and programming interface.
Oracle BI Administration Tool
A Windows application that is used to create and edit Oracle BI repositories. The Administration Tool provides a graphical representation of the three parts of a repository: the Physical layer, the Business Model and Mapping layer, and the Presentation layer.
Oracle BI Briefing Books
A collection of static or updatable snapshots of dashboard pages, individual analyses, and BI Publisher reports. You can download briefing books in PDF or MHTML format for printing and viewing. You also can update, schedule, and deliver briefing books using agents.
Oracle BI JavaHost
A service that gives Presentation Services the ability to use functionality that is provided in Java libraries to support components such as graphs. The services are provided based on a request-response model.
Oracle BI Logical SQL View Object
Provides the developer the ability to create a Logical SQL statement to access the Oracle BI Server and fetch business intelligence data and bind it to native ADF components for inclusion on an ADF page. This view object uses a BI JDBC connection to the Oracle BI Server.
Oracle BI Presentation Catalog
Stores business intelligence objects, such as analyses and dashboards, and provides an interface where users create, access, and manage objects, and perform specific object-based tasks (for example, export, print, and edit). The catalog is organized into folders that are either shared or personal.
Oracle BI Presentation Services
Provides the framework and interface for the presentation of business intelligence data to web clients. It maintains a Presentation Catalog service on the file system for the customization of this presentation framework. It is a standalone process and communicates with the Oracle BI Server using ODBC over TCP/IP. It consists of components that are known as Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards.
See also ODBC; Oracle BI Server; Oracle BI Presentation Catalog; Oracle BI Presentation Services server.
Oracle BI Presentation Services server
The Oracle BI web server that exchanges information and data with the Oracle BI Server.
Oracle BI Publisher
A J2EE application that provides enterprise-wide publishing services in Oracle Business Intelligence. It generates highly formatted, pixel-perfect reports.
See also report.
Oracle BI repository
The set of Oracle Business Intelligence metadata that defines logical schemas, physical schemas, physical-to-logical mappings, aggregate table navigation, and other constructs. Oracle BI repositories can be in binary (RPD) format, in which repository metadata is contained in a single file with an extension of .rpd, or in a set of MDS XML documents. MDS XML format repositories are used for offline development only and cannot be loaded into the Oracle BI Server. Oracle BI repositories in both formats can be edited using the Oracle BI Administration Tool.
See also metadata and Oracle BI Administration Tool.
Oracle BI Scheduler
An extensible scheduling application for scheduling results to be delivered to users at specified times. It is the engine behind the Oracle BI Delivers feature.
See also results.
Oracle BI Server
A standalone process that maintains the logical data model that it provides to Presentation Services and other clients through ODBC. Metadata is maintained for the data model in a local proprietary file called the repository file. The Oracle BI Server processes user requests and queries underlying data sources.
Oracle BI Server XML API
Provides utilities to create a generic, XML-based representation of the Oracle BI repository metadata. You can use this XML file version of the repository to programmatically modify the metadata. The Oracle BI Server XML API objects correspond to metadata repository objects in an RPD file. These objects differ from XML objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog.
The XML generated by the Oracle BI Server XML API is different from the MDS XML format used for Oracle BI repositories integrated with third-party source control management systems.
See also MDS XML.
Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile
Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile is an application that enables you to view and interact with Oracle BI content on smartphones and tablets.
Using Oracle BI Mobile, you can access and analyze all BI content such as analyses and dashboards, BI Publisher content, scorecard content, and mobile apps created by Oracle BI Mobile App Designer.
Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile App Designer
Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile App Designer is a tool for designing purposeful apps for mobile phones and tablets.
The apps you create with Oracle BI Mobile App Designer are platform and device independent. The generated apps are based on the modern HTML5 standard, which means they can run on any modern browser on your mobile device. No client install is required.
Oracle Business Intelligence Web Services
See Oracle Business Intelligence Session-Based Web Services and Oracle Business Intelligence Web Services for SOA.
Oracle Business Intelligence Session-Based Web Services
An API that implements SOAP. These web services are designed for programmatic use, where a developer uses one web service to invoke many different business intelligence objects. These web services provide functionality on a wide range of Presentation Services operations. These web services enable the developer to extract results from Oracle BI Presentation Services and deliver them to external applications, perform Presentation Services management functions, and execute Oracle Business Intelligence alerts (known as Intelligent Agents).
Oracle Business Intelligence Web Services for SOA
Contains three web services, ExecuteAgent, ExecuteAnalysis, and ExecuteCondition, which are hosted by the bimiddleware J2EE application. These web services are designed to enable developers to use third-party web services clients (for example, Oracle SOA Suite) to browse for and include business intelligence objects in service oriented architecture components.
See also Oracle Business Intelligence Session-Based Web Services.
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
A connection interface that the Oracle BI Server can use to connect to Oracle Database data sources. You should always use OCI when importing metadata from or connecting to an Oracle Database.
Oracle OLAP
Oracle Database has an OLAP Option that provides an embedded, full-featured online analytical processing server.
Oracle Business Intelligence supports Oracle OLAP as a data source. When you import metadata from an Oracle OLAP source, the Oracle OLAP objects appear in the Physical layer of the Administration Tool. Oracle OLAP objects include Analytic Workspaces, which are containers for storing related cubes.
Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN)
A process management tool that manages all system components (server processes), and supports both local and distributed process management, automatic process recycling and the communication of process state (up, down, starting, stopping). OPMN detects process unavailability and automatically restarts processes).
See also system components.
Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management
A performance management tool that lets you describe and communicate your business strategy. You can drive and assess your corporate strategy and performance from the top of your organization down, or from the bottom up.
Oracle Technology Network (OTN)
A repository of technical information about Oracle's products where you can search for articles, participate in discussions, ask the user community technical questions, and search for and download Oracle products and documentation.
outer edge
The outer edges are the parts of a trellis view that border the inner graphs. These include the column and row headers, the section headers, and so on.
See also trellis and inner graph.
parent-child hierarchy
A hierarchy of members that all have the same type. All the dimension members of a parent-child hierarchy occur in a single data source. In a parent-child hierarchy, the inter-member relationships are parent-child relationships between dimension members.
See also dimension.
parent-child relationship table
A table with values that explicitly define the inter-member relationships in a parent-child hierarchy. Also called a closure table.
pass-through calculation
A calculation that is not computed by the Oracle BI Server but instead is passed to another data source. Enables advanced users to leverage data source features and functions without the need to modify the Oracle BI repository.
performance tile
A view type that displays a single aggregate measure value in a manner that is both visually simple and prominent, yet it immediately reveals summary metrics to the user that will likely be presented in more detail within a dashboard view. Performance tile views communicate status through simple formatting by using color, labels, and limited styles, or through conditional formatting of the background color or measure value to make the tile visually prominent.
permissions
Specify which users can access an object, and limit how users can interact with an object. Examples of permissions include write, delete, and change permissions.
See object properties.
perspective
A category in your organization with which to associate initiatives, objectives, and KPIs in a scorecard. A perspective can represent a key stakeholder (such as a customer, employee, or shareholder/financial) or a key competency area (such as time, cost, or quality).
See also initiative, key performance indicator (KPI), objective, and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
physical catalog
An object in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository that groups different schemas. A catalog contains all the schemas (metadata) for a database object.
physical display folder
Folders that organize objects in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository. They have no metadata meaning.
Physical layer
A layer of the Oracle BI repository that contains objects that represent physical data constructs from back-end data sources. The Physical layer defines the objects and relationships available for writing physical queries. This layer encapsulates source dependencies to enable portability and federation.
physical schema
An object in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository that represents a schema from a back-end database.
physical table
An object in the Physical layer of an Oracle BI repository, usually corresponding to a table that exists in a physical database.
See also Physical layer.
point of view area
An area within KPIs and scorecards that shows data of specific interest to you, such as the area of business for which you are responsible. The point of view area displays controls for the dimensions of KPIs that are used in the scorecard to measure the progress and performance of initiatives and objectives.
See also initiative, key performance indicator (KPI), and objective.
presentation hierarchy
An object in the Presentation layer of an Oracle BI repository that provides an explicit way to expose the multidimensional model in Presentation Services and other clients. Presentation hierarchies expose analytic functionality such as member selection, custom member groups, and asymmetric queries. Users can create hierarchy-based queries using presentation hierarchies.
In Presentation Services, presentation hierarchies are displayed as hierarchical columns.
See also hierarchical column and presentation level.
Presentation layer
Provides a way to present customized, secure, role-based views of a business model to users. It adds a level of abstraction over the Business Model and Mapping layer in the Oracle BI repository. The Presentation layer provides the view of the data seen by users who build analyses in Presentation Services and other client tools and applications.
See also Business Model and Mapping layer.
presentation level
In the Oracle BI repository, a component of a presentation hierarchy that either rolls up or is rolled up from other levels. Presentation levels are displayed as levels within hierarchical columns in Presentation Services.
See also hierarchy level and presentation hierarchy.
presentation table
An object in the Presentation layer of an Oracle BI repository that is used to organize columns into categories that make sense to the user community. A presentation table can contain columns from one or more logical tables. The names and object properties of the presentation tables are independent of the logical table properties.
primary key
A column (or set of columns) where each value is unique and identifies a single row of a table.
process instance
A unique process on an individual workstation that is associated with a BI instance.
See also BI instance.
prompt
A type of filter that enables the content designer to build and specify data values or the end user to choose specific data values to provide a result sets for an individual analysis or multiple analyses included on a dashboard or dashboard page. A prompt expands or refines existing dashboard and analysis filters.
The types of prompts are column prompts, currency prompts, image prompts, and variable prompts.
See also column prompt, currency prompt, filter, image prompt, and variable prompt.
prompted link
Captures the path to a dashboard page and a simplified presentation of the dashboard prompt.
See bookmark link.
query
Contains the underlying SQL statements that are issued to the Oracle BI Server. You do not have to know a query language to use Oracle Business Intelligence.
report
The response returned to the user from the execution of a query created using Oracle BI Publisher. Reports can be formatted, presented on a dashboard page, saved in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog, and shared with other users.
See also analysis.
selection step
A choice of values that is applied after the query is aggregated that affects only the members displayed, not the resulting aggregate values. Along with filters, selection steps restrict the results for an analysis.
simple trellis
A trellis view that displays inner visualizations that are all the same type, such as all scatter graphs. The inner visualizations all use a common axis, also known as a synchronized scale.
See also trellis, synchronized scale, and visualization.
skip-level hierarchy
A hierarchy where some members do not have a value for a particular ancestor level. For example, in the United States, the city of Washington in the District of Columbia does not belong to a state. The expectation is that users can still navigate from the country level (United States) to Washington and below without the need for a state.
See also hierarchy.
smart watchlist
A smart watchlist is a view into a particular scorecard based on criteria that you specify. For example, a smart watchlist might show the top ten KPIs in a scorecard based on best performance or all the objectives, initiatives, and KPIs in a scorecard that are owned by a specific business owner.
See also watchlist and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
snowflake schema
A dimensional schema where one or more of the dimensions are partially or completely normalized.
spark graph
An embedded mini-graph that, in conjunction with other mini-graphs and numbers, illustrates a single trend. Spark graphs are also known as sparks.
Sparks do not include axes or labels; they get their context from the content that surrounds them. Each type of spark graph has only one measure, which is hidden; the scale is relative to itself only.
A spark graph can be of the graph subtype Spark Line, Spark Bar, or Spark Area.
See also microchart.
star schema
A relational schema that allows dimensional analysis of historical information. Star schemas have one-to-many relationships between the logical dimension tables and the logical fact table. Each star consists of a single fact table joined to a set of denormalized dimension tables.
strategy contribution wheel
A component of a scorecard that makes it easy to see the contribution (or impact) a specific objective or KPI has on a parent objective in a series of concentric rings (or wheel diagram). You use the strategy contribution wheel diagram to hierarchically view an objective and its supporting child objectives and KPIs.
See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
strategy map
A component of a scorecard that shows how the objectives that have been defined for a scorecard and the KPIs that measure their progress are aligned by perspectives. It also shows cause and effect relationships.
See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
strategy tree
A component of a scorecard that shows an objective and its supporting child objectives and KPIs hierarchically in a tree diagram.
See also Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
structured query language (SQL)
A standard programming language for querying and modifying data.
See also Logical SQL.
subject area
In an Oracle BI repository, an object in the Presentation layer that organizes and presents data about a business model. It is the highest-level object in the Presentation layer and represents the view of the data that users see in Presentation Services. Oracle BI repository subject areas contain presentation tables, presentation columns, and presentation hierarchies.
In Presentation Services, subject areas contain folders, measure columns, attribute columns, hierarchical columns, and levels.
synchronized scale
(Applicable to simple trellis only) A synchronized scale means that all the visualizations within the trellis are viewed on the same scale, that is, they share a common axis. Having a common axis makes all graph markers easy to compare across rows and columns.
See also simple trellis and visualization.
system components
Server processes (not Java applications) that are managed by the Oracle Process Manager and Notification server (OPMN).
See also Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN).
transformation
Work that is performed on data when moving from a database to another location (sometimes another database). Some transformations are typically performed on data when it is moved from a transaction system to a data warehouse system.
trellis
Displays multidimensional data shown as a set of cells in a grid, where each cell represents a subset of data using a particular graph type. Data can be represented with graphs, microcharts, and numbers.
The trellis view has two subtypes: simple trellis and advanced trellis.
See also advanced trellis and simple trellis.
unbalanced hierarchy
A hierarchy where the leaves do not have the same depth. For example, an organization might choose to have data for the current month at the day level, data for the previous year at the month level, and data for the previous five years at the quarter level.
See also hierarchy.
variable
Objects in an Oracle BI repository that are used to streamline administrative tasks and dynamically modify metadata content to adjust to a changing data environment.
Variables are of the following types:
Repository variables have a single value at any point in time. There are two types of repository variables: static and dynamic.
Session variables are created and assigned a value when each user logs on. There are two types of session variables: system and nonsystem.
variable prompt
Enables the user to select a value specified in the variable prompt to display on the dashboard. A variable prompt is not dependent upon column data, but enables you to manipulate, for example add or multiply, the column data on an analysis.
See also prompt.
virtual physical table
A physical table that is made from a stored procedure or a SELECT statement. Creating virtual tables can provide the Oracle BI Server and the underlying databases with the proper metadata to perform some advanced query requests.
vision statement
A short statement in a scorecard that describes what your organization wants to become sometime in the future. For example, it might be to become the most successful business in the South America Polypropylene Market.
See also mission statement and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
visualization
In the context of Oracle BI EE, a visualization is the choice of graph that appears within a data cell in a trellis view. There are many visualizations from which to choose when creating a trellis view, including bar graphs, scatter graphs, and spark graphs.
See also trellis.
watchlist
A table that lists scorecard objects (that is, initiatives, objectives, and KPIs) that are related to a particular aspect of a scorecard or that are grouped together for a particular purpose. There are different types for watchlists for example, KPI watchlists or smart watchlists.
See also KPI watchlist, smart watchlist, and Oracle Scorecard and Strategy Management.
waterfall graph
A graph type that lets you visualize how a value increases or decreases sequentially and cumulatively. Waterfall graphs focus the user's attention on how each measure contributes to the overall total and communicate through simple formatting by using color.
WebLogic server domain
Contains Java components that are configured to participate in the servicing of SOAP, HTTP, and other forms of requests.
WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)
A command-line scripting interface that enables you to configure, manage, and persist changes to WebLogic Server instances and domains and to monitor and manage server runtime events.
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