OAC 6.3 Features | Difference between OAC6.2 and OAC6.3 | Features of OAC6.3 | Oracle Analytics Cloud

The OAC 6.3 version is getting released. When comparing to OAC 6.2, below mentioned are the new features or enhancements in OAC 6.3

1      General

1.1     Projects renamed to Workbooks

In the Oracle Analytics user interface and user assistance, "projects" have been renamed to "workbooks." We can use the workbooks to organize the visualizations just as you have done for projects. In the DV link, when we click on Create, we have few options like Project, Dataset, Data Flow etc. In the 6.3 release, the Projects will be renamed as Workbooks.

1.2     Share feedback on Oracle Analytics

Provide feedback on Oracle Analytics directly from the user-profile menu. From the OAC 6.3 release onwards, users will have option to share feedback on oracle analytics through user profile menu. The current options in OAC 6.2 are as below.

2      Visualization

2.1      Position tables and pivot tables

Format visualizations more easily with enhanced positioning of tables and pivot tables.

3      Data Preparation

3.1     Analyze the performance of visualization components

The performance of visualization components can be analyzed using the Built-In Performance tools. The statistics such as query time, server time, and streaming time for visualization components in workbooks can be analyzed using the performance tools.

3.2     Compute machine learning model lift and gain values

Evaluate prediction machine learning models more effectively using lift and gain statistics that you can visualize. Gain and Lift charts are used to evaluate performance of classification model. They measure how much better one can expect to do with the predictive model comparing without a model. This can be used for Risk Modeling in Banking/Insurance or in Supply Chain.

3.3     Experience improved performance for datasets output to DSS.

From past few releases, Oracle team has been trying to further improve the query performance where multiple datasets were involved. However, with this 6.3 release users can expect Improved Data Flow query performance for datasets written to Data Set Storage (DSS).

3.4     OTBI and remote Oracle Analytics Server and Oracle BI EE sources for datasets with multiple tables

We can use the Oracle Applications connection to add tables from Oracle Transactional Business Intelligence and remote Oracle Analytics Server and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition subject areas and reports to datasets containing multiple tables. With this feature, with the help of Oracle Applications connection tables can be added from OTBI, OAS and OBIEE subject areas to datasets.

4      Administration

4.1     Export snapshots to storage in Oracle Cloud

Store your Oracle Analytics Cloud snapshots on Oracle Cloud. Especially useful if you have to manage large snapshots or when experiencing issues downloading large snapshots to your local file system, or when moving snapshots between cloud environments. But the snapshot must be taken from an environment at the same version as or an earlier version than the target environment. With this feature rollout, hopefully user does not have to worry about the count limitation of 40 snapshots.