The document discusses new features in Oracle 12c for analytics including: 1. Advanced analytics capabilities such as Oracle Data Mining, Oracle R Enterprise, and the ability to analyze large datasets of up to 10 billion rows in a week. 2. Performance improvements for partitioning, such as asynchronous global index maintenance and online partition movement. 3. Enhancements to the cost-based optimizer including dynamic sampling, cardinality feedback, and concurrent statistics gathering for faster query optimization. 4. Advanced analytics features like new data mining algorithms, predictive queries, and improved integration with Oracle Business Intelligence.