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Spatial analytics is a powerful tool that provides insights into geographical aspects of data. This technology can be employed to optimize delivery routes, visualize and interact with the geographical distribution of customers, or even plan sales campaigns based on locality. By applying spatial analytics, businesses can go beyond traditional analytics of knowing who their suppliers […]
Oracle Fusion Analytics Warehouse (FAW) extracts data from Oracle Cloud Applications via integration pipelines and surfaces that data in an Autonomous Data Warehouse. The data is structured into facts and dimensions which are modelled into structures called subject areas which are easy to visualise and explore using Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC). A lot of pre-built […]
There is a new REST API connection available with the September 2022 release of Oracle Analytics. This is currently in preview so does need to be enabled in system settings. Once we’ve enabled this preview feature, the REST API connector is then made available in the list of connections. Selecting it brings up the following […]
Oracle Analytics (Cloud and Desktop) version 6.2 intoduces the Canvas Annotation facility. This is a really useful feature for aiding presenting and storytelling, so let’s look at this with an example. Below I have a simple analytic which is highlighting some spikes related to Invoices on Hold. If we have taken an action to assign […]
Oracle Analytics (Cloud and Desktop) 6.1 introduced conditional formatting in the Data Visualisation interface. The ability to conditionally highlight data elements is clearly very useful when used appropriately and allows us to provide ‘RAG’ statuses to draw the consumers’ attention. To demonstrate some simple formatting, we’ll use a table of monthly ETL runtimes, split by […]
The new sample map application that has been provided for Oracle APEX 21.1 is full of great ideas. After reviewing the application, one example I was keen to try for myself was the ‘Nearest Neighbour’ capability. I had an existing map demo (see previous articles on this site) showing customers in proximity to a restaurant, […]
The http://apex.oracle.com website was recently upgraded to a pre-release version of APEX 21.1 which has a host of new features available for preview. One which specifically interested me was the new maps region. I already had some geocoded data in a table (using Spatial Studio) which holds information about a fictional restaurant and also their […]
Oracle Spatial Studio 20.1 was released in early December 2020 and has some great new features. I presented a few of these at the UKOUG virtual event and if you’re a member you can see the replay at the UKOUG website. One feature I wanted to highlight is the ability to view data over time […]
Recently I took photographs of some of my guitars as I was creating a little APEX application to log them and record information about each one. E.g. the serial number, the date of manufacture, the pickups, the string gauge, etc. I then got to thinking – maybe if I recorded when I played each one […]
With Oracle Analytics 5.6 came the facility to do the following : Upload an Image as a Map Background Draw Custom Map Layer Shapes on an Uploaded Image Associate a Data Set with Map Layer Shapes Drawn on an Uploaded Image This new set of features can be used to create a custom filter based […]