How to build Oracle dashboard using SQL
Make simple and easy Oracle SQL dashboards
This article will address the following topics as well
- How to create Oracle dashboards
- How to build online reporting dashboards for your business
Easy Dashboard Reporting with Oracle
Oracle database is one of the top Enterprise grade RDBMS. Many enterprise applications are built on top of Oracle db. Among the most popular Enterprise apps are Oracle e-business suite, Peoplesoft.
If you are tired with slow and sluggish OBIEE, try building your Oracle Accounts Recievables Dashboard using InfoCaptor. You could easily build your Oracle General Ledger, Oracle Accounts payables and all other ERP related analytics using InfoCaptor.
Oracle JDBC driver can be found here http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/features/jdbc/index-091264.html
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Benefits of Oracle database dashboard
Instant Visibility. A Oracle dashboard visually summarizes all the important metrics you have selected to track, to give you a quick-and- easy overview of where everything stands. With real-time Oracle SQL reporting, it’s a live view of exactly how your marketing campaign is performing.
- Better Decision Making
- Gain Competitive Advantage
- Enhance Collaboration
- Spotting potential problems
- Merge with data from Excel Dashboards
- Live SQL against database
- No need for Data-warehouse or ETL
- Leverage the speed and stability of your powerful database.
Check out the Top 10 Tangible benefits of Excel dashboards
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Steps to build Oracle database dashboard
How to create Oracle database connection
Oracle supports both ODBC and JDBC connections. To work with Databases, you would need the following Connection details like
- Oracle server IP or name
- Oracle database name
- Oracle port number
- Oracle user and password
Check out the InfoCaptor Oracle connection details


How to build Oracle pivot table for dashboard reporting
InfoCaptor provides powerful visual analytics for Oracle and you simply point to the table in your Oracle schema or database. Pick your columns and put them in rows or columns.
One of the first things to do for data analysis is to browse your Oracle SQL data and chart different varieties of Pivot Tables. Pivot tables is one of the simple and yet powerful visualizations. InfoCaptor’s entire visualization engine is based on pivot tables. Check the detail steps on how to build Pivot Tables views for Oracle data
Create bar charts and line charts for Oracle SQL tables and views
Once you have a visual clue about your Oracle data using pivot tables, it becomes very easy to convert into bar chart, line chart or any other chart. Check this picture, how Oracle data is visually mapped between pivot table and bar chart

Create Advanced d3.js charts for Oracle tables and views
While you can create pivot tables and bar charts that are very common display types for majority of dashboard reporting, InfoCaptor liberates you from the basic chart types by providing advanced d3js based hierarchical visualizations. Your Oracle reports can easily incorporate circle pack, sunburst, cluster and treemap diagrams. Sankey Flow diagram for your oracle analytics data is also an excellent choice for quick data analysis.

Add Oracle based analysis/report to dashboard view
- Once you are happy with your analysis in the visualizer you can add it to the dashboard
- Keep adding as many analysis you need to the Oracle SQL dashboards
- Add dashboard parameters to the Oracle reporting page
Finalize and Publish your Oracle SQL dashboard
Once you are done with the dashboard, you can share the dashboard with ohter users.
- Public sharing: Share dashboard as public URL
- Inivite users to your group and share it via group