BI-platforms
Tools for data integration and extraction
Tools for information presentation and delivery
Tools for online analytical processing
Applications for planning and budgeting
It’s a powerful tool for data analysis in a form of thin client (is used via web-browser). It allows generating queries to data with the help of common business terms (sales, region, product, etc.).
Oracle Data Mining (ODM) is Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition database option that is designed for knowledge analysis and extraction with special «data mining» algorithms.