Introduction to Oracle Analytics Cloud Series and Pre-requisites

It has been a while since I wrote a post, I have been working on Oracle cloud platform in the areas of Business Analytics and Big Data. As a starting point, I want to write a series of posts around provisioning and usage of Oracle PaaS services targetting areas around Business Analytics.

Oracle Database Cloud Service: This is the first and most popular Oracle Cloud service for GA. As leaders in the Database engine for over 4 decades the cloud service is also efficient like the on-prem. We would require an Oracle Database Cloud Service as a pre-requisite to the Oracle Analytics Cloud service for the purpose of storing metadata, commonly know as RCU schemas. Learn more about DBCS from here

Oracle Storage Cloud Service: This is one of the most common cloud services which you might be already aware of. Storage cloud service is meant for object storage. Everything in the cloud would need storage for the purpose of backup, logs etc. Oracle Analytics Cloud would also require storage of the same purpose of Logs & backups. Learn more about Storage Cloud from here

Oracle Analytics Cloud Service: Analytics cloud service is a combination of Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service, Oracle Data Visualization Cloud Service, and Oracle Essbase Cloud Service. So an Oracle Analytics Cloud service would essentially give all these packaged together under one license. Learn more on Analytics Cloud from here

In order to provision an Oracle Analytics Cloud service, below are the pre-requisites.

1. Cloud Account - Identity Domain, Username/Email, Password 
2. Oracle Database Cloud Service - Provisioned and Ready to use
3. Oracle Storage Cloud Service - Either a Container Created or Storage Admin Credentials for creating while provisioning.

In case you do not have a cloud account, you can try the Cloud for free with a promotional account having 400SGD credit for 30 days. Register for a cloud account at https://cloud.oracle.com.