Oracle Business Intelligence Suite: Enterprise Edition (EE) Plus 

 

 

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite: Enterprise Edition is Oracle's BI application stack acquired from their Siebel acquisition and previously known as Seibel Analytics.

 

The Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition (EE) is a suite of enterprise BI products, including interactive dashboards, ad hoc analysis, alerts, enterprise reporting and disconnected analytics. Oracle Business Intelligence Suite EE is based on the proven and mature Siebel Analytics platform.


Oracle BI Enterprise Edition includes the following components:


Oracle BI Server Previously known as Siebel Analytics Server. This dedicated BI server provides the common business model and abstraction layer for the analytics applications. Oracle BI server supports access to multiple data sources, including relational databases (Oracle, SQL Server, etc), OLAP sources (Analysis Services, Oracle OLAP) and offline sources (Excel, XML, etc) amongst others.
Oracle BI Answers Previously known as Siebel Answers. Provides Ad-hoc query and reporting against the semantic layer developed in Oracle BI Server. The Answers component is the most comparable with the Oracle Discoverer product of the BI Standard Edition.
Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards Previously known as Siebel Intelligence Dashboards. Provides rich dashboard environment for deploying analytic queries and reports developed in Oracle BI Answers. Dashboards is the primary interface for users of the BI EE suite and allows data from multiples sources to be reporting in a central portal environment.
Oracle BI Delivers Previously known as Siebel Delivers. Provides data monitoring and alerting capabilities.
Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics Previously known as Siebel Mobile Analytics. Provides offline analytics functionality.
Oracle BI Publisher Previously known as Oracle XML Publisher. Provides enterprise reporting and distribution of presentation quality reports.
Oracle BI Briefing Books Previously known as Siebel Briefing Books. Provides snapshots of dashboard pages for viewing and distribution offline.


Implementing Oracle BI Suite EE involves using the Oracle BI Server administration tool to develop Physical, Business and Presentation layer models of the data sources. Queries from the front end tools (the user view of the presentation layer) are passed back through the business layer (dimensional model) and then the physical layer back to the mapped data sources. In this way, all data is retained and all data processing performed in the source systems rather than by the Oracle BI Server. For common queries, data can be cached by Oracle BI Server to optimize query performance (and the caches can be preloaded following data updates in the source systems using scheduled Oracle BI Delivers iBots).

 

Oracle BI EE is currently promoted by Oracle as an optional upgrade path for existing Oracle BI customers using Discoverer, Portal & Reports. These existing Oracle products will themselves continue to be developed separately as part of the Standard Edition suite but will be merged together at some point in the future.

 

Oracle BI Answers

 

Oracle BI Dashboards

 

Contact Rockport if you have any questions about Oracle BI Enterprise Edition.

 

 

Oracle BI EE - Information


Arrow Bullet Availability

Oracle BI EE is available now.

Arrow Bullet Current Release

The latest edition of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition is 10g Release 3 (version 10.1.3.3.2). Oracle BI EE can be downloaded under a developer's licence from the Oracle website.

Arrow Bullet Future Releases

The next release of BI EE is the 11g Release, which would likely be available in 2008. 

Arrow Bullet External (Oracle) Links

Oracle Home Page for Business Intelligence

Oracle Home Page for BI Enterprise Edition

Oracle OTN Home Page for BI Enterprise Edition

Oracle Business Analytic Applications on Siebel Analytics platform

 

Documentation - Oracle BI Enterprise Edition

 

 

Jan 2007 - Oracle Press Release - Announcement of General Availability of BI EE Release 3

Jan 2007 - Oracle Press Release - Latest Business Intelligence Platform Magic Quadrant

Oct 2006 - Oracle Press Release - Announcement BI EE 10g Release 3

 

 

 
    Oracle Link Local Copy
bullet Nov 2005 IDC Whitepaper - Oracle BI 250K download here
bullet July 2006 BI EE Business Brief 730K download here
bullet Nov 2006 BI EE Technical Overview Whitepaper 1050K download here
bullet Jan 2007 BI EE - Features in 10g Release 3 1137K download here
       
       
       
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