Oracle Analytics

About?Oracle Analytics Clou

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.

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, without the need to manage or consolidate multiple versions of spreadsheets, and quickly perform ad hoc analysis of the spreadsheet data.

Data-driven: Application developers can utilize interfaces that enable them to extend, customize, and embed rich analytic experiences in the application flow.

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


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You can interact with your own data, ingest and harmonize data sources, collate and manage disparate inputs, and handle data with coherence and consistency during organizational sharing.

As you research and discover information, you can review and visualize your own data with 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.


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


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

About?Oracle Analytics Cloud?Products

Oracle Analytics Cloud?offers you three product options.

Product Options

Product Options	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure	Managed By...
Oracle Analytics Cloud	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?(Gen 1 and Gen 2)Foot?1	Oracle
Oracle Analytics Cloud?Subscription	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?(Gen 1)	Oracle
Oracle Analytics Cloud - Classic	Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic	You (Oracle User)

Footnote?1?The way you deploy and manage?Oracle Analytics Cloud?on?Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?(Gen 1 or Gen 2) depends on the region and start date of your subscription. See?How Do I Set Up a Cloud Service?

Differences Between Products

The main difference between?Oracle Analytics Cloud,?Oracle Analytics Cloud?Subscription, and?Oracle Analytics Cloud - Classic?is the way you deploy and manage your services on Oracle Cloud.

Editions
Service Management
Infrastructure

Editions

Several editions are currently available: Professional and Enterprise. The features available with each edition depend on the product option and regions accessible to you.
Edition	Oracle Analytics Cloud	Oracle Analytics Cloud?Subscription	Oracle Analytics Cloud - Classic
Professional	

Data Visualization

	

Data Visualization

	

Data Visualization

Essbase?Foot?2


Enterprise	

Business Intelligence (includes Data Visualization)

Essbase?Foot?3

Data Visualization?Foot?4

	
Business Intelligence (includes Data Visualization)
	

Business Intelligence (includes Data Visualization)

Essbase

Data Visualization

Footnote?2?Essbase isn't available with Oracle Cloud accounts created after 12th December 2019.

Footnote?3?Essbase isn't available with Oracle Cloud accounts created after 12th December 2019.

Footnote?4?Data Visualization-only deployments aren't available with Enterprise Edition in Oracle Cloud accounts created after 2nd March 2020. Subscribe to Professional Edition if you want only Data Visualization.

Note:

Oracle Analytics Cloud – Essbase?Edition isn't available in Oracle Cloud accounts created after 12th December 2019. Instead,?Oracle Essbase?is available on?Oracle Cloud Marketplace. See:?https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/essbase/index.html

Any Oracle Cloud account created before 12th December 2019 that includes?Oracle Analytics Cloud – Essbase?Edition, remains unchanged.

Service Management

Service Management	Oracle Analytics Cloud	Oracle Analytics Cloud?Subscription	Oracle Analytics Cloud - Classic
Managed by You (Oracle User)	

	

	

You manage the service lifecycle and configuration, and have SSH access to the compute node VM.


Oracle–Managed	

Oracle provides you with lifecycle management and configuration. You can log service requests to Oracle Cloud support to request service updates.

	
	




Customer Responsibility

	

	

	


Manage users and roles	
	
	

Create and size service	
	
	

Create database cloud service	

	

	

Administer database cloud service	

	

	

Back up and restore services	Oracle schedules and manages backups	Oracle schedules and manages backups	

Patch services	Oracle schedules and applies patches	Oracle schedules and applies patches	

Patch operating system	Oracle schedules and applies patches	Oracle schedules and applies patches	

Start and stop services	

	

	

Pause and resume services	
	

	


Monitor services	Oracle has direct access to diagnostic logs for troubleshooting issues	Oracle has direct access to diagnostic logs for troubleshooting issues	

Infrastructure

Infrastructure	Oracle Analytics Cloud	Oracle Analytics Cloud?Subscription	Oracle Analytics Cloud - Classic
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?(Gen 2)	
	

	


Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?(Gen 1)	
	
	


Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic	

	

	



Oracle Identity Cloud Service

	
	
	



Load Balancer

	

An Oracle-managed load balancer is automatically created and configured for your service.

	

An Oracle-managed load balancer is automatically created and configured for your service.

	

When you enable?Oracle Identity Cloud Service?as the identity provider, an Oracle-managed load balancer is created and configured automatically for your service.




Cloud Storage Required

	

Uses?Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage?— A storage bucket is automatically created for your service.

	

Uses?Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage?— A storage bucket is automatically created for your service.

	

Uses?Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage Classic?— You can create the object storage container either before or while you set up your service.




Oracle Database Classic Cloud Service?Required

	

	

	

You must set up a database service for?Oracle Analytics Cloud - Classic?schemas and organize a back up schedule.




Size Deployment by Shape

	

Various Oracle Compute Unit (OCPU) sizing options.

	

Various Oracle Compute Unit (OCPU) sizing options.

	

Standard and high memory shapes.

The list of available shapes may vary by region.




Size Deployment by Number of Users

	

Only on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (Gen 2).

	
	




Scale Up and Scale Down

	
	

	



Availability Domains

	

Each region has multiple isolated availability domains, with separate power and cooling. The availability domains within a region are interconnected using a low-latency network. When you create a service, you can select the region where you want to deploy the service and Oracle automatically selects an availability domain.

	

Each region has multiple isolated availability domains, with separate power and cooling. The availability domains within a region are interconnected using a low-latency network. When you create a service, you can select the region where you want to deploy the service and Oracle automatically selects an availability domain.

	

Professional and Enterprise Editions

Oracle Analytics Cloud?is currently available in Professional and Enterprise Edition.

Oracle Analytics Cloud - Professional Edition
Oracle Analytics Cloud - Enterprise Edition
Oracle Analytics Cloud?- Professional Edition

With Professional Edition, you can:

Take control of your data

Create processes for business analytics application and data collection

Discover insights on the data that you provide

Prepare data through interactive data flows

Explore data through grammar-based visualization

Coordinate business analytics within your department or organization

Use the?Oracle Analytics Day by Day?mobile application

Oracle Analytics Cloud?- Enterprise Edition

Enterprise Edition offers all the features in Professional Edition and in addition, you can:

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

Design and publish pixel-perfect reports from your enterprise data

Migrate content from your existing on-premises environment

Perform a sensitivity analysis to test various data scenarios

Use the?Oracle Analytics Day by Day?mobile application

Maintain live and optimized connectivity to on-premises data warehouses

Sample Scenarios

Here are some sample scenarios of your deployment of Professional and Enterprise Editions of?Oracle Analytics Cloud.

Professional 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 workbooks to return to for monitoring and further analysis. Your primary focus here is on data preparation and interactive analytics of information.




Distribute and share analytics content

	

You can collaborate and share content. This can be static 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 and consolidation

	

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




Access data from a mobile device

	

You can access, analyze, and share analytic content from mobile devices.

You can use the?Day by Day?mobile application - an innovative app that infuses personalized analytics on the go, at the right time, and place.?Day by Day?learns what users are interested in, when and where they are interested in it and who they collaborate with.

Enterprise Edition

Sample Scenario	Description


Build business intelligence data models

	

You can create data models at the enterprise level, as a single, consistent source of data.




Build enterprise business intelligence reports and dashboards

	

You can build and employ highly-formatted reporting content and comprehensive interactions for analytical dashboards at the enterprise level.




Publish pixel-perfect reports

	

You can design pixel-perfect reports to publish analytical content at the enterprise level.




Migrate on-premises business intelligence

	

You can move your existing on-premises business intelligence applications and content directly to the cloud.




Analyze business analytics anywhere

	

You can use the?Day by Day?mobile application. An innovative app that infuses personalized analytics on the go, at the right time, and place.?Day by Day?learns what users are interested in, when and where they are interested in it and who they collaborate with.Ord