Add big data and analytics to the businesses Oracle wants to dominate in the cloud.

Oracle Analytics Cloud essentially forklifts the entirety of Oracle’s on-premises analytics software to its cloud platform. It includes a subscription BI (business intelligence) service that users “of all technical skill levels” can use, along with embedded analytics, reports, alerts and dashboards for Oracle’s SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications.

Oracle detailed the new offerings, based on Oracle’s flagship Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition suite, Monday at the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco.

Another component, Transactional Business Intelligence Enterprise, serves up a cloud data warehouse coupled with prebuilt analytics applications. It’s compatible with both on-premises and SaaS applications, as well as third-party products, Oracle said.

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