New Innovations in

Oracle Analytics Cloud

Ali Raza Momin
Head of Presales, Oracle Technologies
Dec, 2021
Accelerating the journey
from data to insight to action with Oracle Analytics

Fusion Analytics NetSuite Analytics

Warehouse Warehouse

Applications

Platform

Oracle Analytics Oracle Analytics

Cloud Server

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Oracle Analytics Cloud
Analytics platform for all employees supporting a wide variety of use cases and data Oracle Analytics
Cloud

Data Citizen Business Business

engineers data scientists analysts users

Governed analytics Self-service analytics Augmented analytics

Dashboards Reports Data preparation Data visualization Voice & chatbot Natural language

Semantic models Query federation Storytelling Collaboration Data enrichment 1-click explain

Role based security Data export What-if analysis Mobile Adaptive & personalized Machine learning

Open connectivity
Oracle cloud | Third party cloud | On-premises
Oracle Analytics Server
Analytics platform for on-premises and hybrid Oracle Analytics
Server

Oracle BI Oracle Oracle

Enterprise Edition Analytics Server Analytics Cloud
Fusion Analytics Warehouse Analytics
Turnkey Analytics for Fusion apps Cloud

Data warehouse + Semantics

+ Analytics content
Autonomous
Data Warehouse

Rapid deployment

Automated pipeline

Fully extensible & customizable Other

ERP HCM SCM CX SaaS
 Integral part of the OCI Platform

Development Application Analytics Governance

Digital Assistant
Serverless Integration SAAS Analytics Governance

Data Science
Low Code Data Management Security

Data Data Processing

Database AI
Management
Observability
Developer

Infrastructure
Infrastructure Operating
Compute Storage Networking Multi Cloud
as Code System

Public / Government Cloud and Cloud @ Customer

Oracle Analytics Cloud
A closer look at the analytics platform
 New innovations in Oracle Analytics Cloud
100+ features delivered in the past 12 months
Direct Connector to EPM Cloud and generation metadata
Waterfall Enhancements
Pivot – persistent height/width
Pivot – word wrap
Digitized Layers and map backgrounds
JDBC Access to OAC (Preview)
SQL Server Azure Certification
Safe Domains Enhancements
Control visibility of viz filters
Freeze map view (lock interactivity)
Essbase RDG support for RPD based connections
Consumer experience home page
Navigation Actions to Dashboards & Reports
Single step Data Set creation
Increase Density
Canvas Bar Usability
Copy/Duplicate My Calculations
Thumbnail quality improvements
Register external ML models from OML
and consume them directly from the OAC UI
Function ship ML and Analytics execution
to the database
On-canvas filters
Prep Enrichment on Live Data sets
New Viz: Area Chart
UX: Single Header
Spatial functions in expression editor
Improve ‘use as filter’ interaction
Propagate shared folder permission to artifacts
Legend properties for all charts
RDG to Essbase via RPD
Kerberos for Hive (direct and with RDG)
Customized time zone in OAC
ADB as RCU database Embedding performance
improvements
Crypto agility improvements in various components
Expose database analytics in Data Flows
Reduce whitespace on the canvas
Sparkcharts on performance tiles
Waterfall Bridge chart
Fine tune filter scope
APIs to list canvas in a project
OML integration: Show DB model full
details in OAC inspectors
Add a viz property to control the visibility
of the Viz Filter
and more…
Improve management of Live Data Set to
ensure Live results
REST API for APEX Integration
BIP connectivity to Oracle Applications
Support customization of BIP config
Implement auto-purge in BIP   Support for SA, Essbase, EPM Hierarchies (Pivot/Table
GovCloud audit readiness
Data Flows: Support for Database Text Tokenization
Data Flows: Support for Database Frequent
Itemset (Market Basket)
New Viz: Area Chart
Prep: single click trim
Improved progress bar behavior
Improve chrome density in the data panel
Pass filters between filter bar & viz
Impersonation for Kerberos connection
Multi-column and no sort options
Data Action: Support single/multi selection
Data Action: Avoid passing duplicate filters
Export: respect canvas aspect ratio
Increase row limits on all export
Multi-Table, multi-sourced Datasets
Prep: Custom Knowledge
Prep: Quality Insights
Scheduled Dataset Refresh
On-Canvas Filters: Filter Types
(top/bottom, Relative time, Range)
On-Canvas Filters: Dates & Measures
drill-ability)
DB Analytics: Time series Forecast
DB Analytics: Association Rules
DB Analytics: Graph Analytics
Visualization Title Tooltip property
Custom sort dialog for charts
Improved Home Page Search
JDBC Data Sources (RDG, Snapshot)
Support for Big Query
Disjointed datasets - map layers
Average Aggregation in Waterfall Viz
Canvas Auto-Refresh
Feature Extraction OML Model
Object Storage for BIP Delivery
Storing BIP Scheduler Data in Object Storage
BIP: Support OAC Multi table data sets in
Publisher Data Model
Innovations and Experience for
Business Users (Redwood)
Demo: https://youtu.be/hRi0yQZNPpA?t=989
Mobile Analytics
Tablets

• Consume predictive, personalized, and proactive analytics

from native iOS and Android app experiences

• Push notifications to deliver insights alerts based on user defined data

actions or system generated alerts

• Learned user behavior and interests to identify insight importance and

ranking for individual users

• Advanced capability such as augmented insights based on captured

images, automated analytics narrations, and more

Phones
Natural Language Queries and Narratives

• Ask data questions in 28 different

languages, scan the Analytics Catalog to
identify the correct insights
• Advanced languages capabilities
supporting synonyms, abbreviations,
auto-complete, dynamic filtering,
dynamic calculation, time awareness,
negation detection, and more (using the
business dictionary)
• Fully embedded NLG engine able to
describe data insights using dynamically
generated language narrative at multiple
languages
Beyond Dashboards & Reports

• Design engaging analytics experiences, from

dashboards to infographics to data stories

• Extensible platform allows users to leverage standard

charts or create custom visualizations with little or no
code
Innovations and Experience for Data
Analysts, Citizen Data Scientists, and
Data Engineers
Demo: https://youtu.be/hRi0yQZNPpA?t=1183
Smart Data Preparation Preparation Data Quality Insights
Script

• Comprehensive capabilities providing both interactive transformations

and scheduled flows.

• Patented deep data profiling engine samples and scans the data to
identify possible data issues and highlights

• Visually surface data quality insights and recommendations enabling

immediate action
• Identify and correct spelling errors or entry variations
• Automated corrections of bad formatting
• Identify, alert, and recommend action for sensitive data
• One-click transformations
Recommendations
• Knowledge based enrichment using
• Improve overall self-service data quality by providing enrichment built-in or provided knowledge
recommendations based on customer specific knowledge base, • Alert on sensitive data
• Transformation and healing
eliminating the need for individual users to make Join decisions.
recommendation based on pattern
frequency
Machine Learning

• Train and consume machine learning models

• When available, function-ship execution to the

Oracle Database for at-scale scoring

• Explainable ML capabilities
Text Analytics

• Analyze unstructured textual data using advanced

algorithms for Affinity Analysis and text
Tokenization
Graph Analytics

• Utilize the power of the Oracle database to

analyze graph data

• Identify shortest path, ranking, clustering, sub-

graph and more
New Innovations in Oracle Analytics Cloud
Analytics platform for all employees supporting a wide variety of use cases and data

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Oracle Analytics ranked #1 in the
General Analytics Use Case with a
3.50/5 in the 2021 Gartner Critical
Capabilities for Analytics and Business
Intelligence Platforms.
Source: Gartner Critical Capabilities for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms, Kurt Schlegel, James Richardson,
Rita Sallam, Austin Kronz, Julian Sun, March 2021.  
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