Explore OAS Self-Service Analytics
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What you'll learn
Data prep creates analytical value—joins, cleansing, and calculated fields decide whether dashboards inform decisions or mislead.
AI shifts analysts from chart builders to insight curators—tools like Explain and BI Ask speed discovery, but human judgement remains key.
AI-assisted exploration shifts the analyst's role from chart-builder to insight curator — features like Explain and BI Ask accelerate discovery, but
Reusable data assets compound value—datasets, data flows, and dashboards scale impact far beyond a single report.
Skills you'll gain
- Data Analysis
- Data Transformation
- Business Intelligence
- Data Wrangling
- Data Cleansing
- Dashboard Creation
- Data Literacy
- Analytics
- Stakeholder Communications
- Data Synthesis
- Data Visualization
- Data Quality
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Data Presentation
- Data Integration
- Data Import/Export
- Data Sharing
- Interactive Data Visualization
Details to know
June 2026
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There are 3 modules in this course
What if you could turn a raw Excel budget file into a boardroom-ready dashboard within a few hours – no SQL required? This short course was created to help business intelligence professionals accomplish end-to-end self-service analytics in Oracle Analytics Server. By completing this course, you'll be able to connect governed data (subject areas curated by IT or data teams), enrich it through no-code data flows, and publish interactive dashboards your stakeholders can actually use. By the end of this course, you will be able to:
Connect to Subject Areas and upload local files to create reusable data sets Cleanse, join, and enrich datasets using no-code Data Flows Build interactive dashboards using data visualisation, Explain, and BI Ask This course is unique because it leverages OAS's AI-driven Explain and natural-language BI Ask features. To succeed, you should have basic spreadsheet skills and familiarity with data concepts such as joins, measures, and dimensions.
You will connect Oracle Analytics Server to a governed Finance Subject Area, upload a local Excel budget file, and save both as reusable data sets that will be used in later modules for data preparation and dashboard creation.
What's included
1 video1 reading2 assignments
1 video•Total 2 minutes
- From Spreadsheet to Governed Data: Why Self-Service Starts with Connection•2 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
- Step-by-Step: Connecting to a Subject Area and Uploading a Local File in OAS•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 21 minutes
- Create Your First OAS Data Set: Connect a Subject Area and Upload a Local File•15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: OAS Data Connections and Reusable Data Sets Aligned Learning Outcome: Apply Oracle Analytics Server to connect to governed Subject Areas or upload local files and create reusable data sets•6 minutes
You will use the OAS Data Flow canvas to cleanse, join, and enrich the Finance Subject Area and Excel budget data sets, producing a single enriched output data set that will be used in the next module for dashboard creation.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
2 videos•Total 5 minutes
- How to Prevent Silent Data Loss in Oracle Analytics Server•2 minutes
- Building a No-Code Data Flow to Produce a Cleansed, Joined Data Set•3 minutes
1 reading•Total 8 minutes
- Data Flows in OAS: Cleansing, Joining, and Enriching Explained•8 minutes
2 assignments•Total 21 minutes
- Build a Data Flow: Cleanse, Join, and Enrich Your Budget Data Set •15 minutes
- Knowledge Check: No-Code Data Flows in OAS•6 minutes
You will build an interactive OAS dashboard using Data Visualization, run Explain to surface automated profit insights, use BI Ask for natural language querying, and publish the completed dashboard to a shared folder for stakeholder access, ensuring the insights presented are validated, interpretable, and aligned with business context.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments
2 videos•Total 9 minutes
- Data Visualization, Explain, and BI Ask: OAS's Insight-Generation Features•5 minutes
- Building an Interactive Dashboard and Surfacing Insights with Explain and BI Ask•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 3 minutes
- From Data Set to Decision: Why the Dashboard Is Where Analytics Delivers Value•3 minutes
2 assignments•Total 36 minutes
- Course Assessment: Explore OAS Self-Service Analytics•30 minutes
- Knowledge Check: Interactive Dashboards, Explain, and BI Ask•6 minutes
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