Agents are the intended Oracle Analytics capability for automatically executing analytical content according to a schedule or business condition and then delivering the resulting information to users or configured destinations. An agent can run periodically, evaluate a condition, select analytical content, identify recipients, and determine delivery destinations.

For example, an agent can evaluate an analysis each morning and deliver an alert only when inventory drops below a defined threshold. Oracle's current Oracle Analytics Cloud interface increasingly uses the term Delivery for this functionality, but the underlying scheduled/conditional delivery framework is the same capability historically identified as Agents in Classic Analytics.

Selection Steps control which members appear in analysis results. Trellis Views provide repeated comparative visualizations. Subject Areas expose governed business data from the semantic model. None of those features performs condition-driven scheduled delivery.

There is an internal error in the uploaded source: the placement of its “Correct answer” marker makes Selection Steps appear keyed, while the source explanation explicitly says that Agents automate execution and distribution based on schedules or conditions . Oracle documentation supports Agents/Deliveries, so the verified answer is A .

Reference Topic: Managing Administration, Security, and Performance — Agents, Deliveries, Conditions, and Scheduling

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