OBIEE 11g

Oracle’s Business Analytics Strategy

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: April 11th, 2012
Categories: Business Intelligence

Recently Mark Hurd, Oracle President and Balaji Yelamanchili, Oracle Senior Vice President, Analytics and Performance Management, unveiled the latest advances in Oracle’s strategy for analytics. The webcast focused on the latest developments in business intelligence technology and applications, advanced analytics, performance management applications, and engineered systems 

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Real Time Business Intelligence Architecture Strategies

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: June 20th, 2011
Categories: Business Intelligence

The traditional Business Intelligence architecture involves the use of a data warehouse which is populated on a scheduled basis (typically nightly) with data from one-to-many source systems. Either custom scripts or ETL tools such as Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle Data Integrator or Informatica are used to copy the data. As the speed of business has increased, hardware and databases costs have decreased and hardware and database performance have dramatically increased, organizations are now looking to use tools like Oracle Business Intelligence to provide real-time reports and dashboards. 

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Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 7.9.6.3 for OBIEE 11g

Author: Stephen Goldsmith Date: May 18th, 2011
Categories: Business Intelligence

Oracle has just announced that the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA) will be available on the 11g platform.  Oracle Business Intelligence Applications include pre-built dashboards, reports, metadata, data warehouse schemas and ETL solutions, dramatically reducing the time to implement and deploy a Business Intelligence solution.

According to the Oracle press release, OBIA 7.9.6.3 will enable organizations to take advantage of the 11g’s enhanced mobile features, user experience, systems management, performance, and scalability.  Oracle BI Applications Release 7.9.6.3 benefits include:

• Alerts, dashboards and reports are available for secure access and interaction via iPad and iPhone to provide organizational visibility, insight and alignment;

• A new user interface featuring a wide range of interactive charting and prompting capabilities, including map visualization options directly linked to spatial data, providing a richer, more intuitive end user experience;

• An enhanced Common Enterprise Information Model with 25 conformed dimensions that provides alignment across the enterprise as well as high performance, federated queries against hundreds of data sources in relational, OLAP, and XML formats; and,

• Integrated system management services to simplify system configuration, testing, deployment, monitoring, and installation of patches to enable continuous availability, with unmatched query performance, scalability, and security.

Example of OBIA 7.9.6.3