Start needed for BI

I am looking out for a start in getting introduced to Oracle BI. I have already been working on Business Objects and I am familiar with terms like Semantic Layer and reports.
But still I wasn't able to get any document in documentation section to give me good start on Oracle BI Administrator Tool/Creating Semantic layer or starting with reports.
Can anyone help me out here?

Hi,
Oracle BI reporting has two tools in its bucket now, 1> OBI alias Oracle BI ealier known as Siebel Anaytics, 2> Oracle BI Discoverer, the OLAP enabled reporting tool.
If you already have good knowledge of comon reporting terms like Semantic Layer, reports,documents etc., then it won't be difficult to learn and grasp the concepts here. The terms would be little different but underlying concept is same.
Fo e.g. what you call Universe in BO is called EUL in Discoverer, reports are again called reports/workbooks. There is a tool to manage users and EUL,called Administrator, a component to create and edit reports called Disocoverer Plus, and a component to simply view reports called Discoverer Viewer.
To understand the components, I would recommend the User guides that are available on Oracle's web-site.
The best part of Oracle components is the tranparency available with its tools, and you can actually go and check what all is the tool doing in the background, if you have understanding of Oracle and PL/SQL.
Not much told, but hope this helps
Goga

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