I had the opportunity to test the January 2024 Update for Oracle Analytics Cloud recently, and in this article I’m going to share my key takeaways about this experience. The Best Things Happen Unexpectedly When I read for the first time about the enhanced formatting options for map layers, I didn’t realize how useful they could actually be. I was skeptical at the beginning because as soon as you include a measure column to a Map visualization, any default formatting that you previously defined for a map layer gets overwritten (Figure 1). ...

The November 2023 Update for Oracle Analytics Cloud came out a few weeks ago, and this article describes the enhanced Restore Deliveries options related to enabling or disabling agents in your instances. Agents allow you to automate your business processes. You can use them to provide event-driven alerting, scheduled content publishing, and conditional event-driven action execution. Until now, when restoring agents from a snapshot or migrating them from a different environment, delivery schedules ended up disabled in the target instance even if they were enabled in the source one, and must be enabled again manually or through a custom script. ...

The November 2023 Update for Oracle Analytics Cloud came out a few weeks ago, and in this article I’m going to deep dive into the new feature which allows you to handle permissions at a finer grain than previously possible in Data Visualization. Oracle Analytics Cloud provides several predefined application roles which already include a fixed set of permissions to get you started. For instance, members of the DV Content Author role are allowed to create and edit connections, data flows, sequences, datasets, watchlists, and workbooks (exactly as it happened before the update). ...

OCI Functions integration with data flows is one of my favourite Oracle Analytics features as it provides to business analytists full control and flexibility over specific data processing needs. This article illustrates how the feature can be used to implement a web scraper, which allows us to extract data from a website and save the result in a new dataset. Please note that I already wrote about creating OCI functions and invoking them from data flows in Oracle Analytics, so I’m not going to cover all the details again. ...

In my previous article I wrote about creating OCI functions from scratch. Now it’s time to show you how to register your functions in Oracle Analytics and invoke them from data flows to transform your data. Ensuring OCI Functions are Compatible Once your OCI function has been created, you must add the oac-compatible free-form tag to it to ensure that it’s compatible with Oracle Analytics. Open the navigation menu in the OCI Console, select Developer Services, and click on the Applications option (Figure 1). ...