The document provides an overview of business intelligence applications such as SAP Business Objects and Oracle OBIEE. It discusses topics like universe creation in relational databases, Web Intelligence, Crystal Reports, and OLAP analysis. It also covers the installation and configuration of Oracle OBIEE, including setting up the necessary Java environment, using the Repository Creation Utility to create database objects, and increasing tablespace memory sizes. Sample reports are created using the OBIEE sample data and the AdventureWorksDW database.