What are narratives in Oracle Analytics?

Narratives in Oracle Analytics refer to automated text-based summaries generated from data. This feature utilizes natural language processing to provide insights in plain language, enabling users to understand data trends and patterns quickly without delving deeply into complex technical analyses. These narratives can dynamically adapt to changes in the underlying data, making them particularly useful for providing context around visualizations or dashboards.

The capability to generate narratives supports users by enhancing data comprehension, thereby facilitating better decision-making processes. This aligns with the objective of analytics tools to not only present data visually but also to interpret the findings in a way that can be easily understood by non-technical users.

While static reports provide fixed information on a set schedule, they lack the dynamic, responsive nature that narratives offer. User manuals typically serve as instructional guides, which is quite different from the analytical insights intended by narratives. Visual aids can help to represent data, but without accompanying text, they may miss out on the opportunity to elaborate on the findings, which narratives effectively do.