Oracle Cloud

Getting Started with Oracle Analytics Cloud

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March 2017
Documentation that describes how to get started with Oracle
Analytics Cloud.
Oracle Cloud Getting Started with Oracle Analytics Cloud,

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Primary Authors: Ari Gerber, Rosie Harvey

Contributors: Oracle Analytics Cloud development, product management, and quality assurance teams

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 Contents

Preface ................................................................................................................................................................. v
Audience ........................................................................................................................................................ v
Documentation Accessibility ...................................................................................................................... v
Related Documents...................................................................................................................................... vi
Conventions.................................................................................................................................................. vi

1 What is Oracle Analytics Cloud?

About Oracle Analytics Cloud................................................................................................................ 1-1
Features of Oracle Analytics Cloud ....................................................................................................... 1-1
Standard and Enterprise Editions .......................................................................................................... 1-2
Sample Scenarios ..................................................................................................................................... 1-3

2 How Do I Get Started?........................................................................................ 2-1

3 Where Do I Go for More Information?................................................................. 3-1

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 Preface

Learn how to get started with Oracle Analytics Cloud.

Topics:

Audience

Documentation Accessibility

Related Documents

Conventions

Audience
Getting Started with Oracle Analytics Cloud is intended for consumers, analysts, and
administrators using Oracle Analytics Cloud for the first time:

Administrators create services, manage access to Oracle Analytics Cloud and

perform other administrative duties such as backing up and restoring information
for others.

Analysts load data, model data, visualize data, and create reports for consumers.
They also perform sensitivity analysis with data to understand future impact, and
initiate processes to collect and consolidate data. Analysts also test data scenarios,
collect data and consolidate it.

Consumers work with their favorite visualizations, reports, and customize their
dashboard pages. Dashboards allow consumers to quickly analyze and manage
activity across their system. They also participate in data consolidation
workflows.

Documentation Accessibility
Oracle is committed to accessibility.
For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle
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Access to Oracle Support

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Related Documents
These related Oracle resources provide more information.

Oracle Public Cloud http://cloud.oracle.com

Getting Started with Oracle Cloud

Managing and Monitoring Oracle Cloud

Visualizing Data and Building Reports in Oracle Analytics Cloud

Preparing Data in Oracle Analytics Cloud

Using Oracle Analytics Cloud - Essbase

Using Oracle Database Cloud Service

Conventions
This document uses the standard Oracle text and image conventions.

Text Conventions

Convention Meaning
boldface Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated
with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.

italic Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for
which you supply particular values.

monospace Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code

in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.

Videos and Images

Skins and styles customize the look and feel of Oracle Analytics Cloud, dashboards,
reports, and other objects. Videos and images used in this guide may not have the
same skin or style that you are using, but the behavior and techniques shown are the
same.

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 1
What is Oracle Analytics Cloud?

Lets first explore Oracle Analytics Cloud and how you can take advantage of its
features.

Topics:

About Oracle Analytics Cloud

Standard and Enterprise Editions

Features of Oracle Analytics Cloud

Sample Scenarios

About Oracle Analytics Cloud

Oracle Analytics Cloud is a scalable and secure public cloud service that provides a
full set of capabilities to explore and perform collaborative analytics for you, your
workgroup, and your enterprise.
With Oracle Analytics Cloud, you also get flexible service management capabilities,
including fast setup, easy scaling and patching, and automated lifecycle management
with standards-based REST APIs.

Features of Oracle Analytics Cloud

Built on a high-performance platform with flexible data storage, Oracle Analytics
Cloud provides a complete set of tools for deriving and sharing data insights.

Data preparation: Analysts can ingest, profile, and cleanse data using a variety of
algorithms.

Data flow: Analysts can prepare, transform and aggregate data, and then run
machine-learning models at scale.

Data discovery: Subject matter experts can easily collaborate with other business
users, blending intelligent analysis at scale, machine learning, and statistical
modeling.

Data visualization: Analysts can visualize any data, on any device, on premises
and in the cloud.

Data collaboration: Large organizations and small teams can share data more
simply, as you don't need to manage or consolidate multiple versions of
spreadsheets.

Data-driven: Application developers can utilize interfaces that enable them to

extend, customize, and embed rich analytic experiences in the application flow.

What is Oracle Analytics Cloud? 1-1

Standard and Enterprise Editions

With Oracle Analytics Cloud, you can take data from any source, and explore and
collaborate with real-time data.

You can interact with your personal data, ingest and harmonize data sources, collate
and manage disparate inputs, and handle data with coherence and consistency during
organizational sharing.
As you visually research and discover, you can review and visualize both personal
and corporate data, and gain insights at key stages of the iterative information cycle.
You can also perform role-based visualization, for example, as a Sales VP, Sales
Manager, Marketing Analyst, or Services Manager.

You can initiate data collaboration based on any data, and access real-time data with a
variety of interface options.

You can display data in a choice of Oracle reports and dashboards.

Standard and Enterprise Editions

Oracle Analytics Cloud is available in a choice of two editions, Standard and
Enterprise.
With Standard Edition you can:

Take control of your data

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 Sample Scenarios

Create business analytics application and data collection processes

Discover insights on the data you provide

Prepare data through interactive data flows

Explore data through grammar-based visualization

Collaborate business analytics within your department or organization

Enterprise Edition offers all the features in Standard Edition. In addition, you can:

Build data models, reports and analytic dashboards in an enterprise business

intelligence environment

Migrate content from your existing on-premises environment

Perform sensitivity analysis to test various data scenarios

Sample Scenarios
Here are some sample scenarios of your deployment of Standard and Enterprise
Editions of Oracle Analytics Cloud.
Standard and Enterprise Edition

Sample Scenario Description

Self-Service Data Analysis You can connect to specific data sources, perform data
preparation activities, analyze data, discover insights, and tell
data stories.
For example, you might create rough models and content, or
projects to return to for monitoring and further analysis. Your
primary focus here is on data preparation and interactive
analytics of information.

Distribute and Share You can collaborate and share content. This can be static content,
Analytic Content such as PDFs and images that are shared with passive users, or
interactive content shared with other analysts.
Interactive content can vary based on the specific business
scenario, such as sharing an interactive story, collaborating in the
creation of a story or a scenario for analysis, or sharing an
application.

Perform Data Collection You can collect data, adjust the data as necessary, collaborate
and Consolidation with other analysts, and submit the results for approval.

Access Data from a You can access, analyze, and share analytic content from mobile
Mobile Device devices.

Enterprise Edition Only

Sample Scenario Description

Build Business You can create data models at the enterprise level, as a single,
Intelligence Data Models consistent source of data.

What is Oracle Analytics Cloud? 1-3

Sample Scenarios

Sample Scenario Description

Build Enterprise Business You can build and employ highly-formatted reporting content
Intelligence Reports and and comprehensive interactions for analytical dashboards at the
Dashboards enterprise level.

Migrate On-premises You can move your existing on-premises Oracle business
Business Intelligence intelligence applications and content directly to the cloud.

Modeling Data and You can explore data while looking for insights and perform
Scenario-Based Analysis sensitivity analysis to test various data scenarios.

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How Do I Get Started?

Sometimes its hard to know where to start. Knowing the steps and which ones apply
to you can help you get started.

First Steps User More Information Book

Subscribe to Oracle Analytics Buyer Buying a Nonmetered Subscription to Getting Started with
Cloud an Oracle Cloud Service Oracle Cloud
Buying a Metered Subscription to an
Oracle Cloud Service

Understand the prerequisites Administrator Before You Begin with Analytics Administering Oracle
Cloud Analytics Cloud

Set up Oracle Analytics Cloud Administrator Setting Up Analytics Cloud Services Administering Oracle
services for others to use Analytics Cloud

Add user accounts and manage Administrator About Users and Roles in Analytics Administering Oracle
their roles Cloud Analytics Cloud

Sign in to your Oracle Analytics Administrator How Do I Access Oracle Analytics Administering Oracle
Cloud service User Cloud? Analytics Cloud

Get started with data User Getting Started with Data Visualizing Data and
visualization Visualization Building Reports in
Upload your data Oracle Analytics
Cloud
Explore data
Share insights

(Enterprise Edition only) Get
started with enterprise data
modeling
Upload enterprise data
Create data models
Build reports and
dashboards
User Getting Started with Data Loading Preparing Data in
Getting Started with Data Modeling Oracle Analytics
Cloud
Getting Started with Analyses and
Dashboards Preparing Data in
Oracle Analytics
Cloud
Visualizing Data and
Building Reports in
Oracle Analytics
Cloud

Get started with collaborative Administrator Quick Tour of Oracle Analytics Cloud Using Oracle Essbase
data collection and scenario User Essbase Cloud
analysis
Create and import users
Create and analyze
application workbooks
Create cubes and outlines

How Do I Get Started? 2-1

First Steps User More Information Book
Migrate existing content to Administrator Migrating Content to Oracle Analytics Administering Oracle
Oracle Analytics Cloud Cloud Analytics Cloud

Monitor cloud services Administrator Monitoring Services Administering Oracle

Analytics Cloud

Manage cloud services: back up, Administrator Managing Services Administering Oracle
apply patches and roll back, Analytics Cloud
scale up, scale down, and so on.

2-2 Oracle Cloud Getting Started with Oracle Analytics Cloud

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Where Do I Go for More Information?

There are plenty of books, videos, and other resources available. Watch short videos
and explore the documentation to learn more.

How Do I Set Up a Cloud Service?

How Do I Model Enterprise Data?

How Do I Visualize Data?

How Do I Share BI Content?

How Do I Use Essbase for Collaborative Data Collection and Scenario Analysis?

How Do I Set Up a Cloud Service?

Learn how to... Audience Edition More Information

Set up cloud services with Administra Both (SE Setting Up Services
Oracle Analytics Cloud tors and EE)
1

Find out about known issues Everyone Known Issues for Oracle
Analytics Cloud

1 SE (Standard Edition) and EE (Enterprise Edition)

How Do I Model and Report Enterprise Data?

Learn how to... Audience Edition More Information

Upload enterprise data to a Data Enterprise Uploading Data to the Cloud

cloud database for analysis loaders Edition

Create a data model Data Enterprise Typical Workflow for Modeling

modelers Edition Data

Build reports from the data Content Enterprise Creating Your First Analysis
model authors Edition

Build dashboards to display Content Enterprise Creating Your First Dashboard

data authors Edition

View reports and dashboards Users Enterprise Finding and Exploring Reports
Edition and Dashboards

Where Do I Go for More Information? 3-1

 How Do I Visualize Data?

Learn how to... Audience Edition More Information

Upload data from a file or Content Both (SE Typical Workflow for Adding
connect to online data sources authors and EE) Data

Visualize the data in different Content Both Typical Workflow for Exploring
ways authors Data

Build stories and share Content Both Building Stories

insights authors

Curate data from multiple Content Both Blending Data

sources authors

Import, export, and convert Content Both Importing, Exporting, and

visualizations authors Converting Projects

View data visualizations Users Both Exploring Data Without

Authoring

How Do I Share Business Intelligence Content?

Learn how to... Audience Edition More Information

Share content Content Both (SE Sharing Your Content with Others
authors and EE)

Email reports Content Enterprise Emailing Reports and Tracking

authors Edition Deliveries

Move content between Content Enterprise Migrating Content to Other

catalogs authors Edition Catalogs

Embed content Content Both Embedding Content in Other

authors Applications

How Do I Use Essbase for Collaborative Data Collection and Scenario Analysis?

Learn how to... Audience Edition More Information

Create Essbase applications Power Both (SE Using Oracle Analytics Cloud -
Users and EE) Essbase

Solve business analytics Users Enterprise Using Oracle Analytics Cloud -

scenarios and model business Edition Essbase
performance

Analyze data and scenarios Users Both Working with Oracle Smart View
using Smart View

Learn about accessibility Users Both Accessibility Guide - for Oracle

features Analytics Cloud - Essbase

3-2 Oracle Cloud Getting Started with Oracle Analytics Cloud

Learn how to... Audience Edition More Information

Migrate on-premises Administr Both Using Oracle Analytics Cloud -

applications ators Essbase

View advanced Essbase Administr Both Technical Reference for Oracle

configuration options ators Analytics Cloud - Essbase

Where Do I Go for More Information? 3-3

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