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Oracle® Business Intelligence Discoverer Desktop User's Guide 10g Release 2 (10.1.2.1) for Windows B13917-03 |
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# Preface

Welcome to Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Desktop! This guide explains how to use the Discoverer Desktop ad hoc query and analysis interface for business use.

## Intended Audience

This guide is designed for business professionals who want to view, analyze, and manipulate data using Discoverer Desktop. You may want to have Discoverer Desktop running on your computer while reading this guide, so you can follow the step-by-step explanations. If your Discoverer manager at your organization has not created a business area or workbook, you can use the sample database included with Discoverer Desktop.

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## Related Documents

You can access the documents referenced in this guide, and other information about Oracle Business Intelligence (e.g. whitepapers, best practices, documentation updates, other collateral) on Oracle Technology Network at:

`http://www.oracle.com/technology`

## Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention | Meaning
--- | ---
boldface | Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic | Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
`monospace` | Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.
< > | Angle brackets enclose user-supplied names or values.
[] | Square brackets enclose optional clauses from which you can choose one or none.
Menu name | Command | Text in this format conveys a sequence of menu choices, e.g. choose the menu, then the command under that menu.

## Prerequisites to run Discoverer Desktop

To run Discoverer Desktop, a Discoverer End User Layer must already exist. Your Discoverer manager must have created or upgraded the End User Layer using Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer Administrator (which is shipped as a component of Oracle Developer Suite).