Comprehensive capabilities of Oracle Business Intelligence

Oracle Business Intelligence is Oracle Corporation's set of business intelligence tools consisting of former Siebel Systems business intelligence and Hyperion Solutions business intelligence offerings.

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE) is a comprehensive business intelligence platform that delivers a full range of capabilities - including interactive dashboards, ad hoc queries, notifications and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, scorecard and strategy management, business process invocation, search and collaboration, mobile, integrated systems management and more. OBIEE 11g is based on a proven web service-oriented unified architecture that integrates with an organization's existing information technology (IT) infrastructure for the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and highest return on investment (ROI).

Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite provides comprehensive capabilities for business intelligence, including enterprise reporting, dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, multi-dimensional OLAP, scorecards, and predictive analytics on an integrated platform. It is also a core component of Oracle Exalytics, the industry's first engineered in-memory analytics machine designed to deliver extreme performance.

The industry counterpart and main competitors of OBIEE are Microsoft BI, IBM Cognos, SAP AG Business Objects and SAS Institute Inc. The products currently leverage a common BI Server providing integration among the tools.

Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite (OBIEE+ and Essbase) is a complete, open, and architecturally unified business intelligence system for the enterprise that delivers abilities for reporting, ad hoc query and analysis, online analytical processing (OLAP), dashboards, and scorecards. All enterprise data sources, as well as metrics, calculations, definitions and hierarchies are managed in a Common Enterprise Information Model, providing users with accurate and consistent insight, regardless of where the information is consumed.

Users can access and interact with information in multiple ways, including web-based interactive dashboards, collaboration workspaces, search bars, enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) applications, mobile devices, and Microsoft Office applications.

Sometimes OBIEE is used interchangeably with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA), which is a pre-built BI and data warehousing system built on the OBIEE technology stack; however, OBIEE is the platform whereas OBIA is an application that uses the platform. The OBI EE Plus integrates the components of the toolset to include a service-oriented architecture, data access services, an analytic and calculation infrastructure, metadata management services, a semantic business model, a security model and user preferences, and administration tools.

The latest release of Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Suite is a comprehensive solution delivering enterprise reporting, dashboards, ad-hoc analysis, scorecards, what-if scenario

analysis and predictive analytics on an integrated and trusted platform. Users can even utilize the power of analytics on their mobile devices, from anywhere in the world, without compromising data quality or security.