Reporting for Oracle Database

Oracle Database is extremely popular thanks to its scalability, reliability, and security capabilities. Oracle Database 19c is the current long-term release while Oracle Database 21c is available for production as an innovation release. 21c offers several new features including additional support capabilities through in-database Javascript and native blockchain tables. It is also expected to offer support for AutoML in the near future 

Broadly speaking, Oracle Database is among the most popular databases, especially in the case of enterprise-grade applications that require high availability. Specific features in Oracle Database 19c including Oracle Active Data Guard and Oracle Real Application Clusters enable efficient scaling and consolidation of large databases. 

However, reporting from Oracle Database requires the support of technical teams and is often not self-service. This is where a solution like Orbit Reporting becomes extremely useful. 

 Reporting from Oracle Database must be self-service

The data is in raw format and needs a reporting tool to collect and format the data and present it in a format that can be used for further processing and drawing insights for informed decision making. 

Reporting from Oracle Database can be of the following types:

• Operational reporting
• Financial reporting
• Ad hoc reporting
• HCM reporting

The data reports enable businesses to assess their progress in the different functions, identify areas of improvement, and use this to project future trends and modify strategic plans. This makes accuracy and comprehensiveness crucial. Additionally, the reporting tool must have the capability to generate functional and transactional reports. 

Oracle’s Discoverer performed this function and enabled the Oracle DB users to benefit from the data stored in it by allowing business users to generate relevant reports. However, it has been sunsetted now, and businesses seek a viable alternative that integrates automatically with Oracle and has features akin to Discoverer.

Looking to migrate from Oracle Discoverer? Orbit has a solution that can automatically migrate your reports from Discoverer to Orbit — in addition to creating new reports. 

Visit here for more information: https://www.orbitanalytics.com/migrating-from-oracle-discoverer/

The Need for Real-Time Reporting from Oracle Database

Additionally, in today’s context of real-time, agile decision-making, it makes sense to choose a reporting solution like Orbit that is self-service. It helps business users generate their own reports, without help from IT teams. There is also a crying need to connect with multiple data sources – both cloud and on-premise. 

This is necessary because:

1. Data is changing every second and real-time reporting is essential to make timely decisions. The IT team may not be able to respond when needed and by the time the report reaches the user, more current information may have come in but will not reflect in the report.
2. Moreover, some tools may be able to extract data only from the cloud and not from the on-prem database. This provides an incomplete picture, especially for forecasting future trends and devising strategies. 
3. Not built specifically for Oracle, they need third-party integrators to work with the database. This can create silos, which defeats the purpose of moving away from silos.

Orbit Real-Time Reporting and Analytics Solution

Orbit Reporting and Analytics solution is an Oracle-native tool and integrates seamlessly with the database. Some of the other features that make it ideal for Oracle Database reporting include:

1. Self-Service: Business users can generate their own reports without depending on the IT team, thereby benefiting from its real-time reporting capabilities.
2. Scheduling Report Generation: Based on their needs, they can pre-set the schedule for report generation.
3. Integrate with Excel: Excel is a popular tool among business users for analytics as it enables them to create their own formulae. But it cannot pull in data in real-time and so, copy-pasting data does allow real-time analytics. Orbit integrates with Excel and allows users to get real-time data.
4. Customized Visualization: Orbit allows users to create visualizations ideal for their needs, be it bar charts, graphs, pie charts, or any other format.
5. Single Point of Truth: Oracle is built to pull data from on-prem and cloud databases, and thereby provides a unified view of enterprise-wide data.
6. Pre-built Reports: Orbit provides 1,000 pre-built reports and data marts for Oracle Financials, Supply Chain, and HCM applications.
7. Secure Transactions: Not only does Orbit ensure data security and protection, it also aligns with the Oracle security features and automatically syncs roles. Users only need to remember their Oracle Database credentials to access the Orbit reports, and data access is based on permissions and authorizations.

There are many such benefits Orbit provides for Oracle Database reporting. To know more click on the demo link