Introduction

Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One is a complete, integrated, and attractively priced BI solution for the small to medium sized business or workgroup. It provides everything you need to create highly formatted reports, operational dashboards with ad-hoc analysis, and to consolidate your data for a complete view of your business. It includes the same technology as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, making it simple to scale as your business needs grow.

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Choosing the Right Business Intelligence Foundation

You‘re a growing small to medium sized business and you need a solid reporting solution. Something that can generate management reports, operational reports, invoices, shipping labels, checks, tax forms, and regulatory filings - all the business documents to keep your business running smoothly. You also recognize the importance of having accurate, reliable, and timely information to analyze daily operations, closely monitor business performance, to maximize the efficiency of scarce resources, and to seize opportunities as soon as they arise. You understand the importance of integrating data from all your departments to get a complete picture of performance - sales, inventories, purchases, contracts, salaries, marketing expenses and more. If you are like many organizations, you have numerous, semi-compatible systems in use that are relatively isolated from one another, requiring tremendous time and effort to bring data together. Ideally, you want a system that is easy-to-use, meets all of your reporting and information intelligence needs, and provides the insight you need to make better decisions across functions. You also want a system tha t is easy to implement, priced within your budget, and can scale and grow with your business over time. We can help.

A Complete Business Intelligence System

Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One is a complete, integrated business intelligence system specifically designed with the emerging enterprise in mind. It includes everything needed to solve your pressing business needs, including:

• Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher - BI Publisher is a single solution to create, manage, and deliver all of your business documents and reports. Generate sales orders, invoices, checks, purchase orders, shipping labels, management reports, and even government forms. BI Publisher allows you to define report queries using a simple web interface and create highly formatted layouts using tools you already know how to use like Microsoft Office Word and Adobe Acrobat. The BI Publisher report server then generates these documents and can deliver them to multiple destinations including printer, email, fax, and directly over the internet in formats like PDF, HTML, Microsoft Office Excel, EFT and more. Reports can be built directly against your database or the BI Server and you can leverage analyses developed within Oracle BI Answers.
• Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards - Interactive Dashboards provides a web browser interface to instantaneously view important metrics, reports, and visualizations - like gauges, charts, tickers, and more - enables full drilling and navigation capabilities all the way to transactional data, and provides summary reports that take the pulse of the business - perfect for management reporting.
• Oracle Business Intelligence Answers - Oracle BI Answers is a 100% thin client, ad-hoc query and analysis solution that is fully integrated with Interactive Dashboards and BI Publisher. End users can easily and quickly create their own queries, then drill, analyze, visualize and embed the results in their personalized dashboard or deliver them to a variety of formats and channels via BI Publisher.
• Oracle Business Intelligence Server - The same engine that powers Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is also included. The BI Server provides a rich calculation engine and can integrate multiple, disparate data sources into a single federated view with support for Oracle and non-Oracle sources including Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office Excel, most ODBC sources, multi-dimensional sources, XML, flat files, and more.
• Oracle Warehouse Builder - Recognized by Forrester as one of the leading extract, transform, and load (ETL) tools, Warehouse Builder allows you to model, deploy, and maintain a coherent picture of data operations from multiple source systems such as relational, multidimensional, or flat files in your data warehouse.
• Oracle Database Standard Edition One - The world‘s leading database is included, serving as the foundation for storing all of your integrated data in a data warehouse.

Complete and Flexible

Designed with the small to medium sized business in mind, Oracle BI Standard Edition One features a streamlined installation experience and is pre-configured out of the box to be production ready, getting you up an running in the fastest time possible. In addition to providing a complete package with everything you need Oracle BI Standard Edition One is designed for flexible implementations. Organizations can pick and choose which components they want to start with and build out as business needs demand. For example you might want to start with Oracle BI Publisher to generate invoices and later build out an operational dashboard using Oracle BI Interactive Dashboards and Oracle BI Answers.

Designed with Business Users in Mind

Oracle Business Intelligence SE One was developed with business user self-sufficiency in mind; featuring business user interfaces that do not require coding, SQL or other technical skills. Report layout and design is conducted with everyday tools like Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat; new interactive dashboards are built through a simple, drag and drop Web interface; and new ad hoc analyses are built by pointing and clicking on items from a simplified, logical business model of the data. These ease-of-use capabilities enable greater business value and reduced reliance on IT for reporting and analysis needs.

Ready to Grow with Your Business

Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One uses the same technology components as Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, so you can effortlessly upgrade to Enterprise Edition licenses when needs expand o with no need to convert or re-develop reports, dashboards, or data models. This makes it simple to expand your system via functionality provided with Oracle BI Enterprise Edition, such as Oracle BI Delivers, an advanced proactive detection and alerting capability, or Oracle BI Disconnected Analytics, which provides full dashboard and ad hoc analysis capabilities on a disconnected laptop. As a result, any investment in Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One is protected as your business grows.

The Right Business Intelligence Foundation for the Growing Business

Oracle Business Intelligence Standard Edition One provides you with an attractively priced, complete, and integrated solution for virtually all of your business intelligence needs. From operational reporting to data consolidation to management dashboards and ad-hoc analysis, Oracle BI Standard Edition One provides the right BI foundation for small to medium sized organizations, now and for the future.

Introduction

Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus (OBIEE Plus) is a comprehensive suite of enterprise business intelligence (BI) products that delivers a full range of capabilities-including interactive dashboards, full ad hoc queries, proactive intelligence and alerts, enterprise and financial reporting, real-time predictive intelligence, disconnected analytics, and more.

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The products in the suite are based on a proven Web service-oriented architecture that integrates with an organization’s existing information technology (IT) infrastructure for the lowest total cost of ownership (TOC). OBIEE Plus provides complete, relevant insight to everyone in an organization and that, in turn, results in better decisions, informed actions, and more-efficient business processes.

OBIEE Plus delivers the enabling technology needed to standardize and simplify enterprisewide business intelligence. Oracle offers the only enterprise performance management (EPM) system that integrates both BI tools and performance management applications.

Why OBI EE?

• delivers the widest and most robust range of BI functionality on a single unified infrastructure
• unifies metadata across all Oracle BI tools and analytical applications for the lowest TCO
• combines BI and EPM
• based on a proven Web service-oriented architecture (think client)
• easily to integrate with existing data sources and IT infrastructure
Organizations can protect existing IT investments while extending their BI capabilities.
• relevant insight to employees at all levels of your organization, not just analysts
(Business users can access information in the most intuitive manner as a dashboard, through ad hoc analysis, via formatted reports, with integrations to Web-based or Office applications, or as mobile analytics embedded in alerts.)
• rich, interactive dashboards with guided analytics
• full ad hoc analysis over the Web
• proactive detection, alerts, and multi-step analytic workflow
• full-featured disconnected analytics for mobile users
• advanced enterprise reporting and publishing
• full-integration with Microsoft Office package
• integrates with any ETL tool, business application, application server, security infrastructure, portal technology and other front-end and analytical tools.
• comprehensive, best-of-breed capabilities

What datasources are supported?

• Oracle Database
• Oracle E-Business Suite
• Oracle’s PeopleSoft EPM
• Oracle’s Siebel CRM
• Oracle Essbase
• SAP NetWeaver BI
• Oracle Database OLAP option
• Microsoft Analysis Services
• Oracle Hyperion Planning
• Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
• IBM DB/2 Database
• Teradata Warehouse
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Excel
• Flat Files
• ODBC sources (Open Database Connectivity)
• XML (eXtensible Markup Language)

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BI Interactive Dashboards

This 100 percent thin client solution provides fully interactive collections of analytic content with a rich variety of visualizations. Running on a Web-based architecture, the dashboards provide users with information filtered and personalized for their identity, function, or role based on predefined security rules. The rich, interactive user interface makes the presentation of data intuitive, relevant, and easy to understand.

In addition, guided navigation and alerts drive the business user to greater insight and action. As a result, users are guided to make informed and effective decisions that enhance the performance of the entire organization.

BI Answers

Providing business users with true ad hoc query and analysis capability, Oracle Business Intelligence Answers can create new analyses from scratch or modify existing analyses in dashboard pages. To free business users from data structure complexity, the metadata layer of Oracle Business Intelligence Answers offers a logical view of metrics, hierarchies, and calculations expressed in understandable concepts. Business users do not need to understand physical data storage to combine data from multiple enterprise information sources intuitively, quickly, and easily.

Reports created with Oracle BI Answers can be saved in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog and integrated into any Oracle BI home page or dashboard. Results can be enhanced through options such as charting, result layout, calculation, and drilldown features.

BI Publisher

This integrated pixel-perfect reporting component (formerly known as Oracle XML Publisher) allows the creation of highly formatted templates, reports, and documents such as checks, government forms, and more.

It is the most efficient, most scalable reporting solution available for complex and distributed environments. It provides a central architecture for generating and delivering information to employees, customers, and business partners—securely and in the right format.

Best of all, users can work with familiar tools such as Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat for report layouts.

Oracle Delivers

This powerful engine is the interface used to create Oracle Business Intelligence Alerts based on analytics results. Specific results can be detected within reports and the appropriate people notified immediately through Web, wireless, and mobile communications channels.

Oracle BI Delivers uses intelligence bots called iBots to detect specific results. iBots are software-based agents, driven by schedules or events that can access, filter, and perform analytics on data based on specified criteria.

Users with the appropriate permissions can use Oracle BI Delivers to set up the conditions to trigger an alert. For example, if a user should be notified when a particular event occurs, such as customer account going critical, an alert can be created that will notify the user through a number of delivery options, such as email or cell phone.

Oracle Business Intelligence Plug-in for Microsoft Office

Oracle Business Intelligence Plug-in for Microsoft Office integrates business intelligence information from Oracle Business Intelligence Server and Oracle Reports with the Office environment, embedding up-to-the-minute corporate data in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel documents.

Business users can then share these documents with others for collaborative decision-making. Users authenticate themselves to access Oracle Business Intelligence Server content and, having done so, can access the Oracle Business Intelligence Server metadata to build analyses from objects that can span multiple datasources in the enterprise. This ensures everyone in the organization is working from the single source of truth and not a local copy of the data in Excel.

Oracle Disconnected Analytics

The full capabilities and intuitive interfaces of Oracle Business Intelligence Interactive Dashboards and Oracle Answers are also available offline via Oracle Disconnected Analytics. Oracle Disconnected Analytics provides full analytical functionality for the mobile professional, enabling interactive dashboards and ad hoc analysis to be done on a laptop computer while disconnected from the corporate network.

Disconnected and remote users can work with their personalized data and maintain all role-based security. Intelligent synchronization of relevant data, analytic metadata, dashboards, and saved selections occurs once a user reconnects to the enterprise network.

BI Server

As the foundation of OBIEE Plus, the Oracle Business Intelligence Server generates queries optimized for each data source, appropriately aggregates them, and presents the results to users within a familiar Web browser via easy-to-use dashboards and reports.

A flexible, enterprise metadata layer spans all your underlying data sources—including flat files, databases, packaged applications, and more. This metadata layer is so open and flexible you can even use existing third-party query and reporting tools against it. Report authors can select the items they want in their report and the Oracle Business Intelligence Server will collect and aggregate the information—even if it exists in disparate data sources. With larger user populations, many queries will have similar content and the Oracle Business Intelligence Server can intelligently reuse previous query results. Queries might also be scheduled to be pre-run so the results are available when the user opens the dashboard.

The Oracle Business Intelligence Server also includes parallel query execution engines, memory management, and high-throughput data connectivity adapters to allow highly efficient data sourcing and aggregation that minimize data retrieval time. This highly scalable platform with clustering and caching capabilities is the heart of what drives the other suite components. Multiple servers can be clustered to provide session replication and automatic failover capabilities. The Oracle Business Intelligence Server delivers mission-critical performance, scalability, and reliability.

Physical, business, and presentation layer mapping are all under IT control. A single click on the physical layer mapping will swap out one data source for another—for example, an upgrade from a legacy Teradata Database to an Oracle Database or a switch from a test system to a production one—so users can continue to report unimpeded by changes to data sources. With the business and presentation layers, intelligent caching services, and a multidimensional calculation and integration engine, the Oracle Business Intelligence Server delivers intelligent request generation and optimized data access services.

Hyperion Web Analysis

Oracle’s Hyperion Web Analysis delivers out-of-the-box OLAP analysis, presentation, and reporting. Hyperion Web Analysis takes advantage of the many powerful and advanced analytics features provided in Oracle Essbase or other multidimensional sources.

The intuitive, easy-to-use interface provides ad hoc analysis capabilities that give Hyperion Web Analysis business users the independence to create their own views and rapidly explore a large quantity of data.

Hyperion Financial Reporting

Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting turns enterprise data into operational insights by creating book quality financial reports in a variety of formats for a range of audiences. Compliant with all accounting regulations and external requirements, these easy-to-generate reports can be delivered immediately or scheduled for later distribution to enhance your organization’s financial planning, management, and control.

With minimal involvement from your IT staff, end users in the finance department can disseminate vital financial information. Oracle Hyperion Financial Reporting supports Oracle’s Hyperion performance management applications, Oracle Essbase, and SAP NetWeaver BI.

Hyperion Interactive Reporting

Oracle’s Hyperion Interactive Reporting pulls together data from operational or analytic sources to create easily comprehensible charts, pivots, and reports. Hyperion Interactive Reporting adds the option of direct access to relational sources without the need to create and access a semantic layer via the Oracle Business Intelligence Server.

Hyperion SQR Production Reporting

Oracle’s Hyperion SQR Production Reporting generates massive reports within specified time frames and connects to a wide variety of enterprise data sources. In the past, combining production planning data residing in enterprise resource planning sources with financial, marketing, and sales intelligence from customer relationship management (CRM) or financial planning sources was next to impossible because most of that data was locked within its own application.

With Hyperion SQR Production Reporting, this is no longer the case. By providing access to a wide range of data sources—including leading relational, multidimensional, and legacy databases such as IBM DB/2, SAP R/3, SAP NetWeaver BI, and SQL Server—Hyperion SQR Production Reporting unlocks that data, providing cross-functional reporting capabilities that let companies surface exceptions and track bussiness process performance.