This book is written for all those who want to learn how to use the Oracle Business Intelligence platform for analysis and reporting, including analysts, report builders, DBAs, and application developers.

A prerequisite for this book is a cursory understanding of the basic principles in the area of storing and retrieving business data with a RDBMS. However, you don't need to be a database guru to start using Oracle Business Intelligence tools to produce meaningful information from data. In this book, new and casual users are provided with detailed instructions on how to quickly get started with the Oracle Database Business Intelligence features, as well as the key components of the Oracle Business Intelligence suite, putting this handy software to immediate and productive use.