Types of Data Objects

OWB uses relational and dimensional data objects and intelligence objects as follows:

• Relational objects rely on tables and table-derived objects to store and link all of their data. Relational objects include tables, views, materialized views, and sequences.

• Dimensional objects contain additional metadata to identify and categorize your data. Dimensional objects include dimensions and cubes.

• Intelligence objects enable you to store definitions of business views. You can deploy these definitions to Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (OBI EE). In OWB, intelligence objects are displayed under the Business Intelligence node in the Project Navigator.