Dashboards are particularly useful for managers who need to view a wide range of data from different reports. Using dashboards eliminates the needto open a large number of reports individually.

When viewing standard or custom reports, you generally open reports one at a time, and search for data in only the report that is active. However, you can view and search for data in several reports simultaneously by adding them to a dashboard. Each report in a dashboard retains the same functionality as if you opened the report separately, allowing you to access and work with a variety of data from one dashboard.

References:

https://docs.oracle.com/en/cloud/saas/service/18a/famug/analytics.html#dashboards

The answers your customers search for are sorted so the ones that are expected to be most useful are listed first. Three techniques are used to automatically rank and organize answers.

References:

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/november2016/servicecs_gs/FACAI/AdministeringAccessibility-4.htm

Slicing a report allows you to group tabular data sharing common valuesin fields included in the report.

Slicing a report allows you to group tabular data sharing common values in fields included in the report. You can then select from the slice tree or links and view only the report data that matches the selected field values.

References:

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/february2017/servicecs_gs/FAMUG/_analytics.htm

The thesaurus.txt file contains a list of words and their synonyms used in the Similar Phrases search technique on theAnswers page. Words in the text search are matched with synonyms to extend the searching capability to include ontologies.

The Cross Tab feature lets you display report output in a table to summarize large amounts of data. Using a cross tab table, you can select the fields to define the table’s rows, columns, andoutput fields, essentially grouping the data by both the row and column output. The output fields are a culmination of the row and column data.

References:

https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/february2017/servicecs_gs/FAMUG/_analytics.htm#FAMUGae1133085