New

You can create new objects directly from the Home page using the New menu item. Along with the major types of object, such as dashboards, you can create related objects, such as prompts, filters, and style templates.

The only item links that are visible are the ones for which you have the rights to use:

Recent

The Recent section mainly contains links that are pre-defined searches. This includes a search for your analyses and reports. It contains any catalog content that you have recently created, edited, or opened:

Help

If you need help, you can find this in the local help files that were installed along with the application. Also in this section, there are links to the main Oracle website. You will also find links to download the Office Integration client tools.

The BI Desktop tools available to download are as follows: