Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Subject Areas

Subject areas are logical collections of related business data that are made available for reporting and analysis in OAC. These subject areas and their associated data are available for creating and editing analyses and reports. For each subject area, the following information is provided:

  • Description of the subject area.

  • Business questions that can be answered by data in the subject area, with a link to more detailed information about each business question.

  • Job-specific groups and duty roles that can be used to secure access to the subject area, with a link to more detailed information about each job role and duty role.

  • Primary navigation to the work area that's represented by the subject area.

  • Time reporting considerations in using the subject area, such as whether the subject area reports historical data or only the current data. Historical reporting refers to reporting on historical transactional data in a subject area. With a few exceptions, all dimensional data are current as of the primary transaction dates or system date.

  • The lowest grain of transactional data in a subject area. The lowest transactional data grain decides how data are joined in a report.

  • Special considerations, tips, and things to look out for in using the subject area to create analyses and reports.

The subject areas are: